In 2019-2020, Nova Doba initiated the first competition of research projects for young people in Ukraine, The Soviet Past: (R)ethinking History. They received almost 300 collective research projects, which were worked on by more than 1,500 students from different regions of Ukraine. Based on the materials of the competition, a manual for teachers and high school students "How to Work with the Soviet Past in History Classes" was created. In 2022 Nova Doba invited a new generation of schoolchildren and students to join the second stage of the competition.
This project is a part of the History Competition in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine 3.0, which is jointly implemented by the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Association of Volks Universities (DVV International) and the Körber Foundation with the financial support of the German Federal Foreign Office. In Ukraine, the project is jointly implemented by DVV International Ukraine and Nova Doba.
The project has a common theme, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union - "Between Oblivion and Nostalgia: Soviet and Post-Soviet History in Families and Local Communities." All the countries participating in the project share a common burden of the Soviet legacy, which has not been fully comprehended. This project proposes to look at the Soviet through the lens of everyday history, memory studies, micro- and oral history. And by combining this approach with the study of the political regime, we can see the complexity of our ancestors' experience and thus understand the different moods and stereotypes that exist today.
Webseite
https://competition.novadoba.org.ua
Runtime
Since 2019
Contact
Petro Kendzor: kendzor(at)novadoba.org.ua
More informations
Learn more about Nova Doba
Project results
See the manual "How to Work with the Soviet Past in History Classes"
[The description of the activity, individual projects and products is based on the content of the Initiative's website.]
