ABSTRACT
This illustrated chapter looks at how monuments and sites of memorialization in today’s Ukraine tell a story of competing symbols and contested history. The discussion covers sites devoted to earlier Soviet history, in particular to Stalin’s victims buried in the Bykivnia memorial park. It then moves to examine the erection of shrines to protesters who were shot on Independence Square in 2014, the demolition of Soviet-era monuments after the Euromaidan protests, and the development of popular creativity, especially of poster art devoted to the idea of militant resistance to an oppressive regime.
