Modern discourse of the Second World War through the prism of publications of the "Ukrainian Historical Journal" of the last decade
Keywords:
“Ukrainian Historical Journal”, World War II, special services, collaborationism, partisan movement, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA/UPA), Holocaust, prisoners of war, repressions, women’s history, oral historyAbstract
This article presents an overview of the publications of the "Ukrainian Historical Journal" for 2007–2017 about the history of Ukraine during the World War II. In articles about general trends and perspectives of research on this topic in Ukraine, the authors mark the existence in modern discourse of three ways to narrate about World War II: "national", "modern" and "Russian-Soviet-imperial". Most of the materials in the magazine about these issues are devoted to the study of battles, the history of OUN and UIA/UPA, Soviet partisans and communist underground movement, various aspects of the Nazi occupation regime. New trends were present in the articles about the Holocaust in Ukraine, the repressive activities of the Soviet secret services during the war, the women’s history in the time
of extreme violence.
