We are on a summer break and will resume the Monday Seminar/Oberseminar with the start of the lecture period in October.
02. August 2025
Nachruf
Unter deutschen Zeithistorikern war Lutz Niethammer eine Ausnahme. Geschult an der von ihm maßgeblich vorangetriebenen Oral history galt sein…
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.
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.
