![]() ![]() The article ar- gues that religiously inflected Romantic nationalist ideas, language and imagery have dominated since the formulation of the concept of Ukrainian national martyrdom in the 19th century, and that these have been evident in various ways in official and unofficial uses of public space, from the creation of Taras Shevchenko’s grave as a site of national memory in the late 19th century down to commemoration of the victims of the Maidan shootings in 2014. It identifies a tradition of martyrological thinking in Ukrainian culture and commemorative practices, arguing that this paradigm begins and is manifested prominently in literature, before spreading much more widely in Ukrainian culture in the twentieth century. The article traces the concept of martyrdom through Ukrainian cultural history from the 19th century to the present. ![]()
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