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)

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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Preface -- Guido Hausmann (Regensburg): The Political Cult of the Dead in Ukraine. An Introduction -- 1. Sketching out the concept -- 2. Specific manifestations in Ukraine -- 3. Preliminary results -- Andrii Liubarets (Kyiv): How to Exploit the Dead: Commemorating the Battle of Kruty from 1918 to the Present -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Commemorations of Kruty since 1918: Formation of the cult -- 3. Commemorations of Kruty in the 1930s: Rightist discourse -- 4. Commemorations of Kruty in Ukraine after 1991 -- 4.1. Official frameworks -- 4.2. Commemorations of Kruty in contemporary Ukraine: the "rightist" discourse -- 5. Conclusions -- Jagoda Wierzejska (Warsaw): The Cult of the Lviv Eaglets and Contested Memories of the Battle of Lviv in the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Glorification of Lviv Eaglets in literature and education -- 3. The cult of dead: the cemetery for the defenders of Lviv -- 4. Politicization of the cult of dead: the tomb of the unknown soldier -- 5. Rituals of memory: the November anniversaries -- 6. Conclusions -- Iryna Sklokina (Lviv): Commemorating the Glorious Past, Dreaming of the Happy Future: WWII Burial Sites and Monuments as Public Places in Post-War Ukraine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. State policy and lived practices: The construction of power relations and visiting the memorial sites -- 3. Actors at the grassroots level: officials, individuals, family, and community -- 4. Regional initiatives - demonstration of loyalty to the center: the case of the military cemetery project in Stanislav -- 5. Cult of the dead and dreams of a happy consumerist future: the case of the young guard in Krasnodon -- 6. Conclusion.

Olena Petrenko (Bochum): Death as the "Majestic Finale of a Heroic Life": Making Sense of Imminent Demise in Battle among Ukrainian Nationalists (1920s-1950s) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Death and passion -- 3. Death and gender -- 4. Death and festivity -- Kateryna Kobchenko (Kyiv): Soviet Heroines of the Second World War: Their Making and Remaking in Ukraine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The first Soviet heroines -- 3. Soviet heroines of the Second World War: War destinies and the practices of post-war glorification -- 4. Symbolic representations of immortality in the Soviet dead hero's cult -- 5. Heroines' commemoration in Ukraine after 1991: Between Soviet legacy and the creation of a national memory tradition -- 6. Conclusions -- Polina Barvinska (Odesa): Uses of the Past. The Fallen Soviet Soldiers and Sailors in Odesa -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Soviet heritage -- 3. Memory individualized, pluralized, de-secularized -- 4. Attempts to de-glorify, nationalize and politically instrumentalize the memory -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Yuliya Yurchuk (Södertörn): From Subversive Memory to the Cult of Heroes: The Memory of the OUN and UPA in the Case of Hurby Battle Commemoration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is remembered? Hurby as a site in history -- 3. Post-battle memory: subversive and spontaneous -- 4. Dead bodies and management of the past -- 5. Religion and memory of the dead -- 6. "Insurgent graves": actualization of previous historical myths -- 7. Between authenticity and simulation -- 8. Conclusions -- Olesya Khromeychuk (London): On the Periphery of History: Remembering the Waffen SS ˋGalicia' Division in Ukraine -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Historical background -- 1.2 Dichotomous representation -- 1.3 Who are ˋfighters for Ukraine's independence'? -- 2. Commemoration of the Waffen SS ˋGalicia' Division -- 2.1. Polymnemonic space.

2.2 The advantages and the dangers of ˋsituational pluralism' -- 2.3 Between decommunization and perpetuation of victory over Nazism -- 3. Local memory -- 3.1 Alternative commemorations -- 3.2 Political capital of memory sites -- 4. "On the legal status…" -- 5. Conclusions -- Ekaterina Makhotina / Philipp Bürger (Bonn): Making (Monumental) Sense of War: Memorials of the "Great Patriotic War" in the Soviet Union and in Post-Soviet Russia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Commemorating fallen soldiers immediately after the war -- 3. The Thaw: influential artists and popularization of the Revolution -- 4. Folklorization of memory. Veterans activity - memory in the Brezhnev era -- 5. 1990s: from Soviet to Russian victory? -- Perestroika and the 1990s -- Poklonnaia Hill: the 1980s -- Poklonnaia Hill: the 1990s -- A Russian Victory? -- Military Glory Across all Eras -- 6. New tendencies: Localization and individualization of the war remembrance -- 7. Conclusion -- Oleksandra Gaidai (Kyiv): "Take Me to a Mausoleum". Coping with Lenin's Statue in Poltava -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. Politics of memory towards Lenin statues in Ukraine in the 1990s-2000s -- 3. "To be or not to be?": Monument to Lenin in Poltava -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Oksana Myshlovska (Bern): The Sacralization of the Ukrainian Statehood and the Nation: The Cult of Stepan Bandera and the Fighters for Ukrainian Independence in Western Ukraine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The cult of the dead and national leaders and the sacralization of the political in a historical perspective -- 3. The Western Ukrainian secular religion and the Greek Catholic Church during the interwar and wartime periods -- 4. The sacralized places of the cult of the fighters for Ukrainian independence in post-Soviet Western Ukraine -- 5. The politicization of the cult and the public opinion -- 6. Conclusions.

Serhy Yekelchyk (Victoria): The Heavenly Hundred: Fallen Heroes of the Euromaidan in Post-Revolutionary Ukraine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Searching for a national memory -- 3. The celestial revolutionaries -- 4. Civil society and memorial spaces -- Authors.