Law as a tool of collective memory formation: A study of Ukrainian “decommunisation laws”
Journal: Naukovij vìsnik Nacìonalʹnoï akademìï vnutrìšnìh sprav
Year: 2024

Among several issues with Ukrainian collective memory of its Communist period, this study specifically addressed the one of lack of a coherent approach to the formation of such memory. The purpose of this study was to identify whether the “decommunisation laws”, adopted in 2015, provided Ukrainian memory entrepreneurs with sufficiently robust tools to build a politics of memory that would be equally applicable across the country. To this end, this study adopted the process tracing method, highli