Repatriating An Edifying Past : The Diaspora Ukrainian Authoritarian Right and Power Over Memory, 1991-2021
(2024) In Nationalities Papers 52(6). p.1308-1331- Abstract
- The recent history of the Ukrainian authoritarian far right is one of paradoxes. If one looks at the polls, it has performed poorly; its modest successes have been regional and short-lived. On the other hand, it has been highly successful in terms of shaping memory politics in the country. It has had a disproportional influence on history writing, having invested significant efforts into building an effective structure in the field of memory management. Radical nationalists have also come to staff senior positions as deans and vice chancellors at Ukraine’s top universities, the ministry of education, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (UINP), and the archives of the Ukrainian Security Service (HDA SBU). The hard right has gained a... (More)
- The recent history of the Ukrainian authoritarian far right is one of paradoxes. If one looks at the polls, it has performed poorly; its modest successes have been regional and short-lived. On the other hand, it has been highly successful in terms of shaping memory politics in the country. It has had a disproportional influence on history writing, having invested significant efforts into building an effective structure in the field of memory management. Radical nationalists have also come to staff senior positions as deans and vice chancellors at Ukraine’s top universities, the ministry of education, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (UINP), and the archives of the Ukrainian Security Service (HDA SBU). The hard right has gained a disproportionate influence on“soft issues” of identity and the shaping of“national memory” – not only by running the governmental memory institutes, but also by hands-on drafting of memory laws outlawing “disrespect” for the OUN, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and other historical far-right groups. This study seeks to trace and contextualize the repatriation of the ethnonationalist hard right from emigration and its role in shaping an infrastructure of memory production– in particular, under presidents Yushchenko (2005–2010) and Poroshenko (2014–2019). (Less)
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- Rudling, Per A. LU
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- 2024
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- Memory politics, long distance nationalism, Ukrainian diaspora, Ukrainian Nationalism, Holocaust, far right, Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Center for the Study of the Liberation Movement, Ukrainian Institute of National Memory
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- Nationalities Papers
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- 52
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- 6
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- 24 pages
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- Cambridge University Press
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- scopus:85214454390
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- 0090-5992
- DOI
- 10.1017/nps.2024.47
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- English
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