Monumental Landscapes and the Politics of Place: The First Lenin to Fall

On August 1, 1990, there was an unprecedented event in the Ukrainian town of Chervonohrad: a crowd gathered at the central square and, for the first time in the USSR, demolished a monument to Lenin. The demolition caused a political scandal and was the first of a chain of Lenin statue topplings all...

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Main Author: Kateryna Malaia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies 2018-03-01
Series:East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies
Online Access:https://www.ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/article/view/374