Sevastopol’s “Books of memory” as the project of perestroika
Journal: Bulletin of the South Ural State University Series «Social Sciences and the Humanities»
Year: 2017

This article examines seven “books memory” about the city of Sevastopol, which were published from 1994 to 2010 in Ukraine, a project that was initiated in the Soviet Union in 1989 in connection with the policy of Perestroika and preparation for the fiftieth anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. The text shows how the approaches to the creation of Sevastopol’s “books of memory” also changed thanks to the evolution of society’s views of the past. Originally, t