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The book includes selected articles by Tomasz Stryjek, a leading contemporary Polish Ukrainian scholar, written over the past five years. The author focuses on how Ukrainian intellectuals and scholars have redefined such basic categories as nation, memory, national history, and transitional justice since independence. Comparing the Ukrainian case with the Polish, Russian, and Spanish ones, the author traces the "memory wars" of the last ten years and reflects on what kind of memory policy modern Ukraine needs to overcome its traumatic past and build a dynamic democratic society today.

For historians, political scientists, sociologists, cultural studies scholars, and anyone interested in the interplay of history, memory, and politics in contemporary Ukraine and Eastern Europe.