Armen Tonoian is a PhD student in History and a teaching assistant at the Department of History, Faculty of Sociology and Law of National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.” His doctoral research focuses on the editorial policies of the journal Osnova (1861–1863). His research interests include the modern history of Ukraine, intellectual history, the history of publishing, and nationalism in East Central Europe.
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The Dividing Line between Authenticity and Fakery: Folklore, Fakelore, and Invented Tradition
Here is an interview with Oksana Kuzmenko, a researcher of Ukrainian folklore, in which she is discussing authentic folklore as opposed to fakelore in the context of emerging national imagination. Here, Kuzmenko touches upon various topics: authenticity and invention in…