The volume investigates the relevance of the cults of the fallen soldiers to Ukraine's national
history and state. It places the dead of the Euromaidan and the forms and functions of the
emerging new cult of the dead in the context of older cults from pre-Soviet Soviet and
post-Soviet times from various Ukrainian regions until the end of the presidency of Petro
Poroshenko in 2019. Nation and State of Ukraine in the Prism of the Political Cult of the Dead
from the First World War to the Present Day
