Decommunization in Times of War: Ukraine’s Militant Democracy Problem   Mälksoo, Maria Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-7110-2050 Text xx# 2018 Verfassungsblog 2018-01-09 eng
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 The Ukrainian parliament Verkhovna Rada adopted four ‘memory laws’ shortly after the Maidan revolution in the spring of 2015: One contains a legislation criminalizing both Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes, prohibiting the propaganda of their symbols; two laws commemorating, respectively, Ukraine’s fighters for twentieth-century independence movement and the victory over Nazism during the Second World War, and a law guaranteeing access to archives of repressive Soviet-era organs. These laws raise fundamental questions about the legitimate defense of democracy in times of political transformation and war. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Mälksoo, Maria 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/decommunization-in-times-of-war-ukraines-militant-democracy-problem/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20180109-120812 180109 10.17176/20180109-120812 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)