The Political Cult of the Dead in Ukraine

Traditions and Dimensions from the First World War to Today
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-8471-1383-6
Verlag: V & R Unipress GmbH

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas

The Ukrainian Euromaidan in 2013–14 and the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war in the Eastern part of the country have posed new questions to historians. The volume investigates the relevance of the cults of the fallen soldiers to Ukraine’s national history and state. It places the dead of the Euromaidan and the forms and functions of the emerging new cult of the dead in the context of older cults from pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet times from various Ukrainian regions until the end of the presidency of Petro Poroshenko in 2019. The contributions emphasize the importance of the grassroot level, of local and regional actors or memory entrepreneurs, myths of state origin and national defense demanding unity, and the dynamics of commemorative practices in the last thirty years in relation to pluralist and fragmented processes of nationand state-building. They contribute to new conceptualizations of the political cult of the dead.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hausmann, Guido

Sklokina, Iryna

Weitere Mitwirkende

Liubarets, Andrii

Wierzeiska, Jagoda

Sklokina, Iryna

Petrenko, Olena

Kobchenko, Kateryna

Barvinska, Polina

Yurchuk, Yuliya

Khromeychuk, Olena

Makhotina, Ekaterina

Bürger, Philipp

Gaidai, Oleksandra

Myshlovska, Oksana

Yekelchyk, Serhy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Über Autor(innen)

Makhotina, Ekaterina
Ekaterina Makhotina war 2011–2016 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Abteilung für Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas der LMU München und ist seit April 2016 wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Lehrstuhl für osteuropäische Geschichte der Universität Bonn.

Bürger, Philipp
Philipp Bürger ist Osteuropahistoriker und arbeitet derzeit als Lehrbeauftragter in der Abteilung für Osteuropäische Geschichte der Universität Bonn.

Sklokina, Iryna
Iryna Sklokina is Research Fellow at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv, Ukraine. She has defended her PhD in 2014 at the Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and has recently co-edited the volume Labor, Exhaustion, and Success: Company Towns of the Donbas (Lviv 2018, in Ukrainian).

Sklokina, Iryna
Iryna Sklokina is Research Fellow at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv, Ukraine. She has defended her PhD in 2014 at the Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and has recently co-edited the volume Labor, Exhaustion, and Success: Company Towns of the Donbas (Lviv 2018, in Ukrainian).

Hausmann, Guido
Guido Hausmann is Professor of History of East and Southeast Europe, focusing on the history of Russia / the Soviet Union and Ukraine, at the University of Regensburg. He is also head of the Department of History at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg.