Monumental art as a means of constructing historical memory in Soviet Ukraine (original) (raw)

The article is devoted to the study of the construction of historical memory in the Ukrainian SSR by means of monumental art. The relevance of this problem in the context of Russia's hybrid war against Ukraine is emphasized, in which the existence of the Soviet model of historical memory in society has long been the subject of manipulation and serves the purpose of justifying aggression against our state. Since the narratives of historical memory require external manifestation in works of art and the creation of appropriate places of memory, the latter often become important components of state propaganda for the creation of a single concept of collective memory. Therefore, the main task of the study was to show the role of monumental art in the context of memory politics in Ukraine during the Soviet era and the mechanisms of its transformation into a means of Soviet propaganda. In the research process, the methods of content analysis of archival documents and art analysis of mo...