The Frontline Is the Past
Journal: Russia in Global Affairs
Year: 2018

This article studies several methods of assessing historical reality-"interpretation," "mythologization," "falsification," and "folk history"-and describes all four of them. Based on this classification, the author analyzes the historical substantiation of nation-building in the modern Ukrainian state. The facts and theories used in this article convincingly prove that, unfortunately, by rejecting the data provided by Ukrainian and world science, Ukrainian politicians are building "a single Ukra