Abstract
(Re)conceptualization of Memory in Ukraine after the Revolution of Dignity
Highlights
In Ukraine, having arrived at a critical stage of its history, three areas can be highlighted at the level of legislation during the struggle for the way forward since the end of 2013:4 the language issue,5 the constitutional process,6 and the efforts to eliminate the Soviet legacy
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko declared in one his 2015 autumn speeches – 152 years after the promulgation of the Valuev Circular: "Our answer is this: «It existed, it exists and will exist!»"20 In early 2017, when this study is being written, the fault line can rather be drawn along the language question: in Ukraine patriotism and unpatriotism are separately measured by sociologists among Russian and Ukrainian speakers,21 and a belief seems to emerge very clearly that political and public actors alike are trying to grasp the possibility of national cohesion along the destructive and constructive effects of language on national consciousness
Rewriting history has been accompanied by redefining identity and emotional discussion of language issues closely related to identity
Summary
HURI Projects of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, online: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/ projects.html (Downloaded 1 February 2017). In the Soviet territories, in the 1920s, Ukraine and Belarus were showcase areas where illiteracy had been eradicated via the Ukrainian and Belarusian languages, averting nationalist movements. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko declared in one his 2015 autumn speeches – 152 years after the promulgation of the Valuev Circular: "Our answer is this: «It existed, it exists and will exist!»"20 In early 2017, when this study is being written, the fault line can rather be drawn along the language question: in Ukraine patriotism and unpatriotism are separately measured by sociologists among Russian and Ukrainian speakers, and a belief seems to emerge very clearly that political and public actors alike are trying to grasp the possibility of national cohesion along the destructive and constructive effects of language on national consciousness.
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