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.
Alexa Stiller researches and publishes on the history of National Socialism, the Nuremberg Trials and the history of international criminal law, wars and mass violence in the 1990s.
Tetiana Grebeniuk is a philologist with a research focus on contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture.
Alexa von Winning specializes in imperial history, historical biographies and the history of transformation in Eastern Europe.
Yakiv Bystrov is a philologist and head of English Philology Department at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ukraine.