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From the very first weeks of Russia's large-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, Russian soldiers, politicians, and proxy administrators expended considerable effort interacting with monuments on newly occupied territory. Why did the invaders care enough about war memorials to divert scarce resources to destroying, maintaining, or building them amid a massive war? Why did they remove some memorials and spare others? What was the point of commemorating past victories and defeats while bombing Ukrainian cities, and how did commemorative ceremonies in the occupied territories
change over the first year of the war? What was the broader impact of monument-related practices beyond the local settings in which they occurred? And what does the Ukrainian case teach us more generally about how memorials to past wars can be used to justify new conquests? These are some of the questions this book explores, based on fieldwork in occupied Ukraine and online research.
Contents
List of Figures, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 - Theorizing the Monumentscape, Chapter 2 - Historical Background: War Memorials in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine, Chapter 3 - Monuments Destroyed, Spared, and Stolen, Chapter 4 - Monuments (Re-)Built, Chapter 5 - Monuments Broadcast, Chapter 6 - Responding to Invasion: Toppling Monuments, Building Monuments, Chapter 7 - Dates, Practices, Symbols, Chapter 8 - Conclusions, Bibliography, About the Authors, Index of Places in Ukraine, Index of Names
