We resume our Monday seminar with the start of the winter term lecture period in October.
31. July 2026
in support of the Invisible University for Ukraine
The Imre Kertész Kolleg at the University of 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.