Between Lenin and Bandera: Decommunization and Multivocality in Post‐Euromaidan Ukraine by AnnaKutkina. Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics and Security, 231. Stuttgart: ibidem‐Verlag, 2021. xvii + 332 pp. $46.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐8382‐1506‐8
Journal: The Russian Review
Year: 2023

On April 9, 2015, the Ukrainian parliament passed four controversial laws designed to cleanse “the Soviet heritage from the physical, ideological, and mental space of Ukraine” (p. 11). These decommunization laws condemned the communist and Nazi regimes in Ukraine and the symbols associated with them; opened the KGB archives to all scholars and the public; reframed the Great Fatherland War of 1941–45 as the Second World War of 1939–45; and honored members of Ukrainian nationalist organizations wh