The Battle for Historical Memory in Postrevolutionary Ukraine

2016/10/01 by Oxana Shevel · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Eastern European Communism and Reforms #Polish Historical and Cultural Studies #Soviet and Russian History

paper · doi:10.1525/curh.2016.115.783.258

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Abstract

The fundamental dilemma in Ukraine's decommunization process is how to undo the legal, institutional, and historical legacy of the Soviet era without repeating the Soviet approach of mandating one ‘correct’ interpretation of the past …

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