The post-Soviet space, with its constant and multidirectional geopolitical reconfiguration and
related transformations of the national and local toponymic landscapes, requires more …

The introductory chapter addresses the post-Soviet characteristics of political toponymy as a
field of scholarship and the volume s contributions of theorizing them to the broader spatial …

The 2022 outbreak of the Russian full-scale war against Ukraine has led to a reassessment
of memory politics in Ukraine. The erasure of communist symbols or “decommunization” has …

The article investigates changing attitudes to memory politics in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. In
February 2022, with the outbreak of the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war, this geopolitical fault …

This article is devoted to the study of 'demolition'(destruction) of monuments as a cultural
phenomenon, which unexpectedly emerges in certain historical periods. Whereas for a long …

History is the basis of our identity, but it sometimes represents a trap. As well explained by
Keith Lowe, monuments are representative of our values, and every society deludes itself …

The study focuses on the examination of today's ethnographical approaches and theoretical-
methodological paradigms of cultural heritage, as well as everyday social practices related …

The paper investigates whether specific categories of street names (in particular, politically
relevant vs. politically neutral) have more probability to be renamed in historical perspective …

This dissertation examines how reformist (1989-1992) and communist (1994-1997) activist
groups—holding diametrically opposing ideological views—made sense of the transition …

This thesis explores how ontological security shapes Ukrainian memory politics in the
Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Russian invasion's effect on ontological security. Despite …