FORMATION OF THE HISTORICAL-MEMORIAL NARRATIVE OF THE MODERN RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26661/zhv-2024-8-60-31

Keywords:

politics of memory, Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, oral history, historical and memorial narrative

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to reveal the formation of a historical and memorial narrative of the modern Russo-Ukrainian War in Ukraine, which includes materials from oral history and popular science publications. The methodology of the research is based on the principles of historicism, scien- tificity, authorial objectivity, as well as general scientific (analysis, synthesis, typology) and special historical (historical and genetic, historian systemic, historical and typological) methods. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the formation of a historical and memorial narrative of the modern Rus- so-Ukrainian War (2014–2024) has been studied in Ukraine for the first time, which includes materials from oral history and popular science publications. The Conclusions. Therefore, the UINP’s developed and distributed historical narratives served as the foundation for the perpetuation of the memory of the Ukrainian defenders, who were killed as a result of Russia’s war against Ukraine. They made it possible for the ATO members to be acknowledged as the heirs of the magnificent traditions of the Ukrainian liberation struggle against the occupiers and as the continuation of the Ukrainian Liberation War. As a result, the ATO soldiers were compared to the heroes of the UNR Army, the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, the Ukrainian Galician Army, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Oral history - records of the recollections of war participants and victims — was given particular weight in the creation of the historical and memorial narrative of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The work of the UINP and some academic groups (in particular, Zaporizhzhia National University) on recording and publishing testimonies of the Ukrainian soldiers, volunteers, and eyewitnesses of the war are noteworthy in this regard. The following should be mentioned among them: five books of the project “Oral History of the Russo-Ukrainian War (2014–2019)”, as well as the publications “Girls Cut Their Hair”, “People of the Gray Zone”, “Chaplains In the service of God and Ukraine”, “ Volunteers: The Power of the Indifferent”, “Dnieper Warriors…”, “Without Rotation”, “Testimony of the War…”, etc. The documentary and historical publications written by the Ukrainian journalists, the volunteers, and the service members are crucial to the development of the historical and memorial narrative of the Russo-Ukrainian War.

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Published

2024-12-01

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FORMATION OF THE HISTORICAL-MEMORIAL NARRATIVE OF THE MODERN RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR. (2024). Zaporizhzhia Historical Review, 8(60), 264-273. https://doi.org/10.26661/zhv-2024-8-60-31