1st Edition
Monuments and Territory War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine
238 Pages
by
Central European University Press
From the very first weeks of Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, Russian soldiers, politicians, and proxy administrators expended considerable effort interacting with monuments on newly occupied territory. Why did the invaders care enough about war memorials to divert scarce resources to destroying, maintaining, or building them amid a massive war? Why did they remove... Read more
List of Figures, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 - Theorizing the Monumentscape, Chapter 2 - Historical Background: War Memorials in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine, Chapter 3 - Monuments Destroyed, Spared, and Stolen, Chapter 4 - Monuments (Re-)Built, Chapter 5 - Monuments Broadcast, Chapter 6 - Responding to Invasion: Toppling Monuments, Building Monuments, Chapter 7 - Dates, Practices, Symbols, Chapter 8 – Conclusions, Bibliography, About the Authors, Index of Places in Ukraine, Index of Names
Biography
Mykola Homanyuk, sociologist, geographer, and theatermaker, is an associate professor at Kherson State University, Ukraine. He defended his PhD thesis in sociology at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Since 2022 he has been a member of the Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration, and Memory research group. Mykola is the author of numerous articles on mental mapping, ethnic studies, as well as memory and commemoration. As a theatermaker he runs the Kherson Theater Lab.
Mischa Gabowitsch, historian and sociologist, is Professor of Multilingual and Transnational Post-Soviet Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the EHESS in Paris, and previously held positions in Princeton, Potsdam, and Vienna. He is the author or editor of numerous books in various languages, including Protest in Putin’s Russia (2016) and Replicating Atonement: Foreign Models in the Commemoration of Atrocities (2017).