Comprehensive study of national memory and historical policy in the international dimension (review of the monograph: The problem of historical memory in the world-historical discourse (1945 – 2015): monograph/head of the Author’s team – corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, doctor of science, prof. A. I. Kudryachenko, scientific editor: Doctor of Science, Assoc. Soloshenko V. V., technical editor: candidate of political science, associate professor of science. Rozumyuk V. M. Kyiv: State University “Institute of World History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, 2021. 312 p.)

In a new work by scientists of the Institute of World History of the National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the concept of historical memory is characterized
as one of the basic paradigms of social and humanitarian disciplines, the main
directions of memory studies are defined, and a thorough analysis of memory policy
in many European countries is carried out, Asia, North America. Since the main
function of historical memory is the formation of identity, the memory of the people
serves as its connecting link. The laconic conclusion of the 103 Authors of the work
“Kingdom of Memory”: “France is memory” also applies to other nations.
Accordingly, Taras Shevchenko addressed “my dead and living and unborn
compatriots in Ukraine and not in Ukraine”, covering the entire temporal and spatial
dimension of the nation’s mental identity. It is not for nothing that the main target of
Russia’s existential hybrid war against Ukraine is the identity of the Ukrainian nation,
with efforts to destroy its fundamental component – historical memory and replace it
with “Russian World”. Therefore, the relevance of the reviewed research is
determined by the importance of the policy of memory in the era of globalization,
when each country faced the dilemma of preserving its ethnocultural heritage as a
marker of the identity of the people and at the same time – bringing the national
cultural product to the world market, which requires increased attention of scientists.