Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Theory as 'Hegemonic' Practice -- Constructing Multivocality -- The 'Imagined Community' -- Bridging -- 2. The Postcolonial Soviet -- Disputing Othering -- The Opposition -- Debating Decommunization -- 3. 'Researching' Methods -- Interviews, Visuals, Texts -- Textual and Narrative Analysis -- 4. The Poster-Roots of the Lenin cult -- Methodology of the Poster -- The Leaders Cult -- Historical Memory -- 5. Art of the Protest -- Messages of the Revolution -- The "Strike Poster"-"Страйк Плакат" -- Posters and the State -- Romanticization + Realism -- Birth of Dialogism? -- 6. Meanings of Lenin -- The 'Leninfall'-Original Multivocality -- Creative Remembering -- The Lenin Camouflage -- 7. Filling the 'Pedestal' -- Bandera and the Nationalist Discourse -- The Bookshelves: Mirroring Decommunization -- "One Hundred Years of Fighting for Independence" -- The 'Other,' the Ukrainian, and the State -- Conclusion -- References -- APPENDIX. |