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.
Tetiana Grebeniuk is a philologist with a research focus on contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture.
Jerzy Kochanowski is professor of history and teaches at the Faculty of Culture and Art Sciences, Warsaw University, Polen.
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.
