Презентация Богдана Хмельницкого и Ивана Мазепы в политике памяти современной Украины

Since 1991, there has been a rethinking of national history in Ukraine, with a search for variants of the Ukrainian-centric historical narrative that are acceptable to society. IIn modern Ukrainian memory politics, Ukrainian presidents use the term “glorious history” in their official speeches to create a collective historical identity, at the center of which are “national heroes,” of whom Bogdan Khmelnytsky stands out as the “creator of Ukrainian statehood,” and Ivan Mazepa, who became the successor of Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky, as a symbol of Ukrainian independence and resistance to Russia. In this way, Ivan Mazepa has turned, in Ukrainian memory politics, from a traitor into a hero, rehabilitated first by nationalist historiography, then by the current political reality.