When Lenin Becomes Lennon: Decommunisation and the Politics of Memory in Ukraine

Maksym Kovalov

Europe-Asia Studies, 2022, vol. 74, issue 5, 709-733

Abstract: This article examines the politics of renaming streets as a symbolic form of decommunisation in Ukraine. The evidence suggests that political factors, or ‘politics of the present’, rather than structural factors, or ‘politics of the past’, explain the opposition to decommunisation since 2015. More specifically, two mutually necessary factors—the interaction among subnational veto players and the efforts of toponymic commissions—explain the opposition to the renaming of streets. Regions with a high number of subnational veto players and low engagement by toponymic commissions have shown a higher degree of resistance to the renaming of streets.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2022.2078478

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