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"Memory" has become a subject of scientific research in various fields of knowledge - history, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, political science, ethnography, psychology, etc. Foreign historiography has been actively accumulating potential in the field of "memory studies" since the second half of the twentieth century. For domestic humanities, the problem of memory has become relevant after Ukraine gained independence and the need to understand the past in the process of forming a national identity has arisen.

In the study, the reader will find answers to a number of important problems of the formation of a new scientific field of research - memory studies. The author reflects on the formation of a new paradigm of knowledge, expands the current understanding of the methodological arsenal of memory studies, introduces her own categories ("memory masks", "memory landscape", "memory space", etc.) to understand the memory paradigm; analyses the role of memory and history in representational practices, etc.

A. Kiridon's research is a pioneer in the field of memory studies in Ukraine. The book will be of interest to those who think about the problems of memory and forgetting, seek answers to the complex processes of the past's influence on the present and the mechanisms of their comprehension.