07. April 2025 - 16:15
Immo Rebitschek (Jena)
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.
Tetiana Grebeniuk is a philologist with a research focus on contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture.
Yakiv Bystrov is a philologist and head of English Philology Department at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ukraine.
Alexa von Winning specializes in imperial history, historical biographies and the history of transformation in Eastern Europe.
Kateryna Burkush is a social historian of labour in the late Soviet Union.
