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Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva
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During recent years, newspaper articles as well as radio and television broadcastings are abound ... more During recent years, newspaper articles as well as radio and television broadcastings are abound in materials about historical memory and forgetting, museums and monuments, places of memory, history schoolbooks, heroes and deheroization, victims and victors. Memory policy is discussed on different levels, from political authorities who frame it, to schoolchildren who constitute one of the youngest groups of receptors of these policies. The control over the construction of collective beliefs about the past by the dominating power is called the?official memory policy.?Thus, this thesis aimed to investigate how memories about Ukrainian history, promoted on the state level after obtaining independence in 1991, influence national integration in the country. The work analyzes the commonly used methods of control which are: interpretation of history, organization of mass historical education, establishing museums and monuments, inventing commemorative practices, linguistic transformations,...
During recent years, newspaper articles as well as radio and television broadcastings are abound ... more During recent years, newspaper articles as well as radio and television broadcastings are abound in materials about historical memory and forgetting, museums and monuments, places of memory, history schoolbooks, heroes and deheroization, victims and victors. Memory policy is discussed on different levels, from political authorities who frame it, to schoolchildren who constitute one of the youngest groups of receptors of these policies. The control over the construction of collective beliefs about the past by the dominating power is called the?official memory policy.?Thus, this thesis aimed to investigate how memories about Ukrainian history, promoted on the state level after obtaining independence in 1991, influence national integration in the country. The work analyzes the commonly used methods of control which are: interpretation of history, organization of mass historical education, establishing museums and monuments, inventing commemorative practices, linguistic transformations,...