Manufacturing Local Identification Behind the Iron Curtain in Sevastopol after the Second World War
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2015

Since 1991, Sevastopol, an ethnically Russian city in Ukraine, has been undergoing a re-examination of its heritage. On the eve of Ukraine's 'Orange Revolution' in 2004, one could see a wall on Soviet Street with graffiti that read: 'Sevastopol is Russia.' Graffiti is a common form of self-expression, but it can also be a political statement. The persistence of the name 'Soviet Street', which ends at a large statue of Vladimir Lenin that towers over the city, also seemed anachronistic in democra