ABSTRACT
Social change always leads to a review of historical events, as well as to transformations in their depictions in history textbooks. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, when Ukraine became an independent republic, the 'history of Ukraine' became a mandatory subject in schools and universities. This chapter focuses on events of Ukrainian history textbooks from political history as these have been subjected to the most transformations in situations of social change. The nature of certain aspects of a narrative, along with the characteristics of a dynamic structural model of the conflict, allows us to clearly define the limits of the narrative describing the conflict in question by separating them from the text. The conflicts chosen are those which, mirrored in the history of a society's development, are, first, linked with contemporary conflicts and thus reflect their historical-cultural roots and preconditions and, second, create conflict and contradiction during the process of interpretation.
