Destruction of Historical Memory

in the campaign “Ban on Culture and the Press Before World War I (1913–1914)”

The erasure of the memory of national heroes: "In January 1914, minister of internal affairs Nikolai Maklakov signed a circular by which he forbade throughout all governorates of the empire 'public celebrations of the Little Russian writer Taras Shevchenko'"[1].

ID: C0051.T0045
Start: January 1913
End: December 1914
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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