Culture War

“This book is a profound and intellectually rich exploration of Ukrainian history and cultural identity, combining academic rigor with a vivid analytical style. It convincingly demonstrates how historical narratives become a field of contemporary informational and semantic confrontation.” –Mykola Vaskiv, professor of the Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, philology
“This is not merely a book about war – it is an attempt to hear its deeper echo in culture, memory, and myth. Moving from Stalinist repression to the fragile openings of the Thaw and the quiet tensions of late Soviet stagnation, Yaroslav Petik reveals a conflict that unfolded long before the first shot was fired and continued long after the guns fell silent. Here, war appears not only as a clash of armies, but as a struggle over language, history, and identity – over the very right to remember. With intellectual rigor and moral clarity, this work uncovers the persistence of cultural resistance beneath ideological control, showing how, even in the absence of open confrontation, the battle for meaning endured. It is a powerful reminder that the deepest wars are fought not only on the battlefield, but within the human spirit and the stories a nation tells about itself” –Ihor Pavlyuk, writer, professor of the Lviv University, social communications