The political cult of the dead in Ukraine : : traditions and dimensions from the First World War to today / / edited by Guido Hausmann, Iryna Sklokina.

• Superior document: Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas / Cultural and Social History of Eastern Europe. ; v.14
• TeilnehmendeR: Hausmann, Guido,; Sklokina, Iryna,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : V&R unipress,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas / Cultural and Social History of Eastern Europe.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• ISBN: 3737013837; 3847013831
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Guido Hausmann, 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. 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 twenty years in relation to pluralist and fragmented processes of nation- and state-building. They contribute to new conceptualizations of the political cult of the dead.