1st Edition

Memory Crash Politics of History in and around Ukraine, 1980s-2010s

Edited By Georgiy Kasianov Copyright 2022
422 Pages
by Central European University Press

This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020. Georgiy Kasianov details practices relating to history and memory by a variety of actors, including state institutions, non-governmental organizations, political parties, historians,... Read more
Tables, Preface, part I CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS, part ii ACTORS, part iii PRACTICES, Conclusions, Selected Bibliography, Index

Biography

Georgiy Kasianov is Head of the Department of Contemporary History and Politics at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is an author, co-author and co-editor of more than twenty books on the history of Ukraine in the 19th–21th centuries.