THE EVOLUTION OF THE POLICY OF MEMORY IN MODERN UKRAINE: POST-TREATMENT NARRATIVES AND THE NATIONAL POLICY OF MEMORY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC HOLIDAYS)

Abstract

The presented article analyzes changes in the politics of memory in modern Ukraine using the example of public holidays, which illustrate how radically the content of the national policy of memory changed at the beginning of the 21st century, contrasts post-Soviet and modern Russian historical narratives with the national policy of historical memory. The principles of the formation of the state policy of memory in Ukraine in the thirty-second year of independence in the conditions of a full-scale war with the Russian Federation continue to remain debatable. The systemic transformations of recent decades have fundamentally changed the emphasis in approaches to understanding and studying the historical past and the role of national historical memory in this process. Therefore, it is not surprising that on the agenda of modern Ukraine, the issues of studying national history, which had been silenced before, the destruction of Soviet historical myths and narratives and the formation of a common collective memory, the construction of new schemes of national identity, have become particularly relevant. Ukraine, like most of the post-Soviet republics, inherited a commemorative map of the «all-Union» model with an error on national historical features, with a certain set of heroes and notable events. In fact, during the period of independence, the Ukrainian society undergoes a transformation of historical memory: ideas about the most important dates and events, national heroes. The presented article proves that Soviet historical narratives are quite strongly rooted in Ukrainian society, and the analysis of what exactly was «celebrated»/»celebrated» in Ukraine at the state level during the last three decades proves the fact of inconsistency in the implementation of state historical policy and the formation of national historical memory ‘yati The consequence of this state of affairs was the polarization of historical memory in society along the «East- West» axis.