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The “Bandera Debate” : The Contentious Legacy of World War II and Liberalization of Collective Memory in Western Ukraine

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This article explores the core propositions articulated by several public actors in the so-called Bandera debate, i.e., discussions about the usable past and legacy of the wartime Ukrainian nationalist insurgency and its central symbolic figure, Stepan Bandera. In Western Ukraine, popular historical imagery as well as intellectual polemics about “Ukrainization” of World War II challenged both the Soviet myth of the Great Patriotic War and the European model of politics of regret. Correspondingly, one of the main ideas conveyed during the Bandera debate in Western Ukraine was the necessity of liberalization of the national politics of memory, i.e., the process of opening the political discourses and public debate to a circulation of diverse voices and narratives concerning the national past, a circulation unrestrained by political pressure. Generally, however, wartime events and figures continue to be presented in line with dichotomous national discourses. As the example of a chain of restaurants exploiting the theme of World War II demonstrates, one-dimensional interpretations of the contentious past suggested to the public by the actors involved in the commercialization of historical knowledge may have far-reaching, unpredictable implications. This is especially true in the post-Orange Western Ukraine where politics—including politics of memory—is increasingly determined by ultra-right forces such as VO Svoboda.

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

61-83

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Canadian Slavonic Papers

Volym

54

Issue

3-4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Princeton University Press

Ämne

  • History and Archaeology

Nyckelord

  • memory studies
  • Stepan Bandera
  • Western Ukraine
  • WWII
  • politics of memory

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0008-5006