12. May 2025 - 16:15
Friedrich Asschenfeldt
05. May 2025
Vortragsreihe
Mit der bedingungslosen Kapitulation des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands am 8. Mai 1945 endete in Europa der Zweite Weltkrieg, der weite Teile…
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.
Jerzy Kochanowski (born 1960, Warsaw) received his PhD in 1991 and postdoctoral degree in 2001 from the University of Warsaw, from 2000-2005 he was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute...
Tetiana Grebeniuk is a philologist with a research focus on contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture.