Chapter 2 Historical Background: War Memorials in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine
Journal: Central European University Press eBooks
Year: 2025

War Memorials in Soviet and Post-Soviet UkraineThis chapter offers an overview of war memorials in Ukraine.Our approach here is to stay close to the ground by discussing existing war memorials in all their diversity, as well as some of the associated local practices.In contrast to studies that focus primarily on national-level memory politics, we leave treatment of grand historical narratives and mnemonic controversies until after this empirical survey.At the end of the chapter, we offer a detai