Irina Reva's book is devoted to transformational changes in the minds of Ukrainians during the Euromaidan and the modern war with Russia. The author starts from the thesis that the Bolshevik occupation authorities, thanks to the Holodomor and repressions, managed to impose their values and patterns of behavior on some Ukrainians. The author views Euromaidan and the war as stages of awareness and overcoming the consequences of historical trauma. Based on a large number of interviews with fighters, volunteers, Maidan participants, the researcher reflects on the motivation of Ukrainians who went to the front during the first waves of mobilization, recording the growth of Ukrainian national consciousness and significant changes in the value system. peculiarities of the attitude of the Ukrainian mentality to the "Other", understanding of justice, etc. In the depths of the collective unconscious, the culturologist tries to find the matrix of the "organic Ukrainian" - the Ukrainian he would be without suffering terror from famine and other historical traumas.
