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.
Marta Gospodarczyk is a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.
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.
Oleksandr Zaitsev is professor of history at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, where he heads the Department of Modern Ukrainian History.
Jerzy Kochanowski is professor of history and teaches at the Faculty of Culture and Art Sciences, Warsaw University, Polen.
