The Political Cult of the Dead in Ukraine

Traditions and Dimensions from the First World War to Today. Edited by Guido Hausmann and Iryna Sklokina.

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. With 12 contributions by Andrii Liubarets, Jogoda Wierzejska, Olena Petrenko et al. 302 Seiten mit 67 Abb., gebunden (Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas; Band 14/V&R unipress 2021) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear