Reordering of Meaningful Worlds: Memory of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Post-Soviet Ukraine (англ.)

Abbreviations .......................................................................................................... xiii
A Note on Language and Transliteration ................................................................. xvi
Preface ................................................................................................................... xvii

Chapter I. Introduction ................................................................................................ 1
Dealing with a Difficult Past ....................................................................................................... 7
Defining Language .................................................................................................................... 17
Cultural Memory ................................................................................................................. 17
Memory and History ........................................................................................................... 20
Myth .................................................................................................................................... 22
Knowledge .......................................................................................................................... 24
Monuments as Symptoms and Catalysts for Memory Work ..................................................... 27
Soviet War Monuments and the OUN and UPA Monuments ................................................... 30
Approach and Method ............................................................................................................... 33
Collecting Data and Positioning “Me” into the Research .......................................................... 37

Chapter II. The Past to Remember ............................................................................ 41
The OUN and UPA: Difficult Aspects of the Past .................................................................... 41
The OUN’s Ideology and its Relationship with Nazi Germany .......................................... 44
The OUN and UPA and the Jewish Population ................................................................... 49
The OUN and UPA and the Polish Population .................................................................... 51
Concluding Remarks ................................................................................................................. 54

Chapter III. Searching for the Past Perfect................................................................ 55
Równe - Rovno – Rivne: Putting Rivne on Map ....................................................................... 57
The World Wars and the City ............................................................................................. 59
The War Remembered 1945-1985 ...................................................................................... 60
The Region of the Partisan Glory ........................................................................................ 60
Dynamics of Memory 1985-2014 ............................................................................................. 64
Disordering the meaningful world: 1985-1995 ................................................................... 65
Many Vectors and No Direction? ...................................................................................... 103
Political Crisis and the Formation of New Opposition (1998-2003) ................................. 107
In Search of New Symbols ................................................................................................ 107
Orange Blues (2003-2005) ................................................................................................ 112
The Orange Revolution ..................................................................................................... 124
Rise and Decline of “Nationalization” (2005-2010) .......................................................... 127
Whose Right to Define the “National” in Memory? Institutionalization of Memory ........ 127
The Road to the Turbulent 2014 ............................................................................................. 140
Yanukovych’s Revanchist Memory Politics ..................................................................... 141
Euromaidan ....................................................................................................................... 143
Concluding Remarks ............................................................................................................... 153

Chapter IV. Making the Past Perfect. ..................................................................... 156
The Battle of Hurby Commemoration - Pantheon of the Heroes under Construction ............. 157
Dead Bodies from the Past ................................................................................................ 158
Insurgent Graves ............................................................................................................... 162
Pray, Learn, Play, Pray Again: Memory Actors and Memory Activities .......................... 166
Klym Savur –Memorialization Ruled by Amnesia.................................................................. 172
Duty to Remember ............................................................................................................ 174
Appearances Matter .......................................................................................................... 178
Topographical Matrix of Klym Savur monument ............................................................. 179
Parallels that Never Meet? Remembering the Polish victims ............................................ 182
Taras Bul’ba-Borovets’: Founding Myth of the UPA ............................................................. 186
The Never Ending Building Process ................................................................................. 188
Regional Hero ................................................................................................................... 192
Concluding Remarks ............................................................................................................... 197

Chapter V. Grammars of Remembering – Mechanisms of Mythologization ......... 200
Martyrology as a Grammar of Remembering .......................................................................... 201
Hagiography as a Grammar of Remembering ......................................................................... 204
Grammar of Heroic Epos ........................................................................................................ 209
Grammar of Prophecy/Oracular Pronouncement .................................................................... 212
Concluding Remarks ............................................................................................................... 214

Chapter VI. Encountering the Past (Im)Perfect ...................................................... 216
Reception of Monuments ........................................................................................................ 216
Troubled Knowing: Students’ Essays on War and Memory.............................................. 217
“We Must Remember Their Sacrifice” ............................................................................. 226
Visitors’ Perspective on the OUN and UPA’s Past ........................................................... 226
Concluding Remarks ............................................................................................................... 234

Final Discussion ...................................................................................................... 235
Postscript................................................................................................................. 245
Sammanfattning på svenska .................................................................................... 246
Annex 1. Decalogue of the Ukrainian Nationalists ................................................. 253
Sources and Literature ............................................................................................ 254