13. February - 31. March 2025
by Viktoriia Nechyporuk
While there have been recurring debates about how to deal with the Soviet legacy since the country's independence, in 2015 decommunisation became a systemic imperative of Ukrainian state policy. Particularly in the case of monuments that are an essential part of the public space, redefinition became a strategy of decommunisation. The article examines the debates surrounding and the alteration of such a monument, the Motherland statue in Kiyv.
Veneta Ivanova is a historian of Eastern and Southeastern Europe with an interest on the interplay between socialism, occultism, religion, science, and utopia in twentieth-century Europe.
Tetiana Grebeniuk is a philologist with a research focus on contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture.
Kateryna Burkush is a social historian of labour in the late Soviet Union.
Yakiv Bystrov is a philologist and head of English Philology Department at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ukraine.
