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