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Yevhen Yashchuk

PhD student in History at the University of Oxford. He is interested in the imperial and postimperial past, with a research focus on the transimperial history, media history, and intellectual history of the second half of the nineteenth century and topics in contemporary memory politics. He is currently working on his dissertation on the Great Eastern Crisis’s appearance in the provincial cities of the Russian Empire and Austro-Hungary between 1875-1878. He is also a student coordinator and mentor at CEU Invisible University for Ukraine and a co-editor of the web journal Visible Ukraine.

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Articles by Yevhen Yashchuk

  1. Catching the Specter: Stepan Bandera between Myth, Meme, Death, and Memory in War-Turn Ukraine

    In this essay, the author is engaging with the transforming presence of Stepan Bandera (1909-1959) in the Ukrainian social media space between 2014 and 2024. Building along and against the mainstream discussions on collective memory, The author argues that with the presence of war, the Ukrainian social media users memefied Bandera, making him a useful tool for politically-driven activities and an emptied signifier to be used in ironic contexts. The author also shows that in war-torn Ukraine, the meme and the myth of Bandera are intertwined with the commemorations of those who died on the frontline, which requires a nuanced understanding of the country’s changing memory landscape.

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