”Leninopad”: coming to terms with the past in post-Soviet Ukraine

Pavlush, Tetyana 2024. ”Leninopad”: coming to terms with the past in post-Soviet Ukraine. Loeffler, Marion, ed. Berlin Wall Falls: History, Identity and Politics, University of Wales Press,

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Abstract

A cascade of events that started in Ukraine in late 2013 and early 2014 – EuroMajdan and the Revolution of Dignity, the Russian aggression and annexation of Crimea, the wave of demolition of Lenin monuments, also called Leninopad (‘Leninfall’), the warfare in the East and the de-communisation campaign – were seen by many observers as a sequel to the collapse of the Soviet empire. The border wars that have been forewarned but miraculously avoided in 1991, broke out unexpectedly in 2014. Lenin monuments were in the middle of these developments. In 1991 Ukraine had 5,500 Lenin monuments and almost all of them were gone by October 2017, the month marking the centenary of Lenin’s October Revolution of 1917. This chapter explores the politics of memory in post-Soviet Ukraine which made the century of V. I. Lenin officially over.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	In Press
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
Publisher:	University of Wales Press
Last Modified:	06 Jun 2022 15:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/150123

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