Emergence of modern historical policy in the Russian-Ukrainian warcontext: Assessing transformations in global order paradigms and present challenges
Keywords:
Russian-Ukrainian war, historical politics, aggression, politics of memory.
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to study contemporary historical policy in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war and against the background of paradigm shifts in the world order and other contemporary challenges. To achieve this goal, the article uses the methods of critical analysis of literature (content analysis), historical-comparative, and historical-typological methods. The results show that historical politics is becoming an important component of modern life in Ukrainian society, especially in the context of the Russian invasion. The use of history as an instrument of expansion has become an essential feature of Russian politics. This model can be seen as an attempt to restore Soviet identity, with a strong emphasis on “common history and brotherhood.” The modern version of this idea, promoted by the Kremlin, is based on the concept of reviving Russian influence after the collapse of the Soviet Union (which, in the Kremlin's view, was a geopolitical catastrophe) on the territories of independent states. The conclusions emphasise that such manifestations of chauvinistic historical policy have become a tool in the hybrid war against Ukraine and the democratic world as a whole.
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Tkachenko, V. (2020). Narratives of historical memory in the political transit of Ukraine and Russia. Kyiv: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. https://ivinas.gov.ua/images/978-966-02-9913-9.pdf
Verovšek, P. J. (2016). Collective memory, politics, and the influence of the past: the politics of memory as a research paradigm. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 4(3), 529-543. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2016.1167094
Von Hagen, M. (1995). Does Ukraine Have a History? Slavic Review, 54(3), 658-673. https://doi.org/10.2307/2501741
Wertsch, J. V., Roediger, H. L., & Zerr, C. L. (2022). Collective Memory. In Cultural Memory (p. 95–106). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003205135-9
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Zaretsky, E. (2013). What is political history?: The question of the public and the private. Reviews in American History, 41(3), 557–562. https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2013.0083
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Zaszkilniak, L. O. (2019). Theoretical issues of contemporary historical policy in Ukraine Res Historica, 46, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.17951/rh.2018.46.365-381
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2023-08-30
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Halytska-Didukh, T., Salata, S., Nashyvochnikov, O., Leyla, D., & Solovei, H. (2023). Emergence of modern historical policy in the Russian-Ukrainian warcontext: Assessing transformations in global order paradigms and present challenges. Amazonia Investiga, 12(68), 141-150. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2023.68.08.13
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