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La guerre, des lieux et des noms. L’Ukraine à l’heure de la décommunisation
In this contribution, we address the decommunization policy reestablished in Ukraine in 2015 and its specific implementation by the renaming of street and city names.
Alexia Kis-Marck
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One of the objectives of the Decommunization Act is to remove monuments or other objects from public space that propagate communism or another totalitarian system.
Adam Bojarski
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Decommunization Discourse in the Kyiv
The author investigates decommunization discourse. The article is focused especially on the process of decommunization in the Kyiv, and is looked in detail the changing of street names, comparing Kyiv to other cities. As we know in 20 and 21 centuries governments employ the symbolic powers of public space as a resource for demonstrating their authority.
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Geopolitics of geographical urbanonyms: evidence from Ukrainian cities
This article focuses on geographical urbanonyms in Ukraine – names of streets, squares, lanes, etc. that refer to the names of other geographical objects like cities, regions, countries, or continents.
Olexiy Gnatiuk, Anatoliy Melnychuk
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Anti-crisis resource of memory policy in Ukraine
The proposed article considers the politics of memory as a tool for overcoming crises in contemporary Ukrainian society. In an open information society, memory is a resource of social dialogue, which provides the construction of a conventional grand ...
Yury Shapoval
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DILUTED POST‐SOCIALISM: Urban Policymaking in East Germany, Poland and Ukraine
Abstract More than three decades after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the post‐socialist framework prevalent in the academic world is raising more and more questions. The three most serious doubts have to do with: (1) the time that has elapsed since the collapse of the state‐socialist system, which means that local urbanization has been ...
Łukasz Drozda
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In the year of 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, the author turns to the question of the Soviet heritage influence on nation- and state-building processes in three countries of the South Caucasus –Azerbaijan,ArmeniaandGeorgia.
A. A. Tokarev
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The article deals with the problem of the influence of Sovietization and decommunization on the urban environment of modern Ternopil region: the cities of Ternopil and Zalishchyky and the town of Skala-Podilska.
Serhiy Humennyi
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De-Communization of Childhood. Introduction to Research on Transformations of the Discourse on Child and Childhood in Post-Communist Poland [PDF]
The article is devoted to the phenomenon of “childhood de-communization” as a process of changing the way of childhood’s conceptualizing and social practices related to childhood during the political transformation.
Paweł Walczak
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Decommunization in Ukraine: redistribution of a symbolic resource
May 21, 2020 marks five years since the so-called "decommunization laws" came into force in Ukraine. Their adoption and implementation was the result of long and complex socio-political and state-building processes. The process of decommunization gained momentum against the background of overloading society and the state with a wide range of political,
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