Role of social and cultural memory dimensions within individual perceptions about the Second World War in Ukraine: a generational perspective
Journal: DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Year: 2018

The thesis analyses the influence of collective memory on individual attitudes to historical events based on the case of Ukraine’s collective memory of the Second World War. A generational and family perspective is taken to examine 20 interviews collected with representatives of different generations of seven Ukrainians families. The theoretical framework for the research is based on Aleida Assmann’s concepts of social and cultural memory, which allowed to develop the analytical tool of social a