Between Lenin and Bandera - Anna Kutkina Kartoniert (TB)

On 8 December 2013 Ukraine's central Lenin monument in Kyiv was pulled down. In the following months in what became known as the Leninfall Ukraine swept away hundreds of communist monuments expressing an explicit desire to break away from the Soviet past and implicitly from Russia. This book examines the evolution of post-Euromaidan de-Sovietization beyond the issues of toppling of old statues and implementation of new anti-totalitarian laws. It explores decommunization as both a political and cultural phenomenon that exposes the multivocality of the Ukrainian population and involves var ious forms of dialogical interaction between ordinary citizens and the state. Posters graffiti or street names are physical and discursive canvases where old meanings are being contested and re-articulated and where new political symbols that combine nationalist and democratic elements are being defined.