ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a short historical summary of important events related to the development of historical politics in Ukraine from the end of the 1980s to 2017–20. The main topic is the “nationalization” of the past within the context of Ukraine’s emergence and formation as a sovereign state. We will explore the establishment and the functioning of the national/ nationalist memory narrative as it interacts with and struggles against the Soviet (and in some cases the imperial) nostalgic memory narrative.
