69% of Ukrainians became more interested in history during the last year of the war – research
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The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) has published the results of a study on how Ukrainians’ views on history and perceptions of historical figures and events have changed. Read UP.Culture in Telegram The survey was conducted in January 2023. According to the results of the survey, adult residents of Ukraine are highly interested in the history of their country. More than two-thirds (69%) became more interested in the history of Ukraine in the last 10 years, and the same number (69%) felt an increase in interest in history during the last year. The main resources that people interested in the history of Ukraine use to study it are: videos on YouTube (53%), publications in social networks (37%), television programs (35%), books (29%). As for the attitude towards individual historical figures and events, the majority of respondents have a positive attitude towards Ukrainian historical figures who played a role in the formation of the nation and the state, and have a sharply negative perception of Russian or Soviet political leaders and figures. For example: 90% of the country’s residents have a positive attitude towards Mykhailo Hrushevsky, 3% negatively, 80% positively perceive Danylo Halytskyi, 2% negatively perceive Yaroslav the Wise, 87% positively perceive it, 3% negatively, 86% have a positive attitude towards Vyacheslav Chornovol , negative – 5% Bohdan Khmelnytskyi is positively evaluated by 89%, negatively – 7% Levko Lukyanenko is positively perceived by 68%, negatively – 4% towards Pavlo Skoropadskyi 71% have a positive attitude, negative – 4% Ivan Mazepa is positively perceived by 84%, negatively – 7% positive attitude towards Stepan Bandera was expressed by 83%, negative – 11% towards Roman Shukhevych, 67% of the country’s residents have a positive attitude, negative – 9% towards Simon Petlyura, 64% have a positive attitude, 18% – negatively, a positive attitude towards Leonid Brezhnev was expressed by 27% , negative – 65% have a positive attitude towards Nikita Khrushchev 23%, negative – 67% have a positive attitude towards Peter the Great 18%, negative – 71% have a positive attitude towards Catherine the Second, 13% have a negative attitude towards Volodymyr L 8% have a positive attitude towards Ukraine, 86% have a negative attitude, 6% have a positive attitude towards Joseph Stalin, 90% have a negative attitude. competition of the 20s of the 20th century (67%), the creation of the OUN (75%), the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR (70%), the collapse of the USSR (83%), the Granite Revolution (30%), the Orange Revolution (70%) ,Revolution of Dignity (83%). Revolution on granite. Photo: Vechernyi Kyiv According to the interviewees, the creation of the USSR (73%), collectivization (70%), the Second World War (87%), the Holocaust (91%), the introduction of Soviet troops into Afghanistan had a negative role in the history of the Ukrainian people ( 92%), the current Russian-Ukrainian war (81%). The study says that the current Russian-Ukrainian war had a significant impact on Ukrainians’ perception of their own past: more than two-thirds (68%) of the survey participants indicated that the war changed their attitude towards the history of Ukraine, and 29% – that their attitude towards history did not has changed It was also found that the majority (85%) of Ukrainians consider state policy in the field of historical memory necessary. At the same time, 55% believe that the state does not sufficiently deal with historical memory, 31% believe that it is enough, and 8% – excessively interferes in the issue of history. How the research was conducted The survey of Ukrainian residents was conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) on the order of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine. The survey was conducted on January 19-27, 2023 by telephone interview method. In total, 2004 adult residents of Ukraine were interviewed. The obtained results were weighted taking into account the sex-age structure of the permanent population of Ukraine. The sample is representative of the adult population of Ukraine (from 18 years old). The statistical sampling error does not exceed 2.2% for rates close to 50%, 1.9% for rates close to 25 or 75%, 1.3% for rates close to 10 or 90%, 1.0% for values close to 5 or 95%, 0.4% for values close to 1 or 99%. Read also: Movies, books and YouTube – how the consumption of art by Ukrainians changed during the full-scale war
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