title: Independence, Revolution, War, and the Renaissance of National History in Ukraine
abstract: In Ukraine, a renaissance of national history started with the end of the Soviet empire and the creation of an independent Ukrainian state in the 1990s. As part of the delayed nation-building in Ukraine, it implied the fundamental revision of Soviet historiography and the rewriting of history under a new national paradigm. Post-Soviet historiographies and cultures of remembrance have developed differently in Russia and Ukraine, and there is no common narrative on the history of the Soviet era to