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In this New York Review of Books piece, Vladimir Sorokin reflects on the symbolism of the toppled monuments, drawing parallels and making distinctions between how it was done in Russia in 1991 and in Ukraine in 2014, and raising the question of what…

a history of the Lenin statue in Kiev (toppled in December 2013)

In order to protect the monument in Zaporozhie from "leninopad," an activist dressed the statue in a traditional Ukranian shirt ("vyshivanka").

Anti-Russian protesters in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, topple a huge statue of Vladimir Lenin. One protester explains why.

Sasha Senderovich's NYT op-ed on the toppling of the Lenin statue in Kiev

a special 1hr40min-long TV program from the Russian channel "Rossiia 1" dedicated entirely to the topic of Leninopad

Washington Post article — reflections on the significance of it all

photographs of the toppled Lenin statue in Kiev

infographic showing the remaining statues of Lenin in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus as of October 2014 Data source: http://leninstatues.ru/leninopad, October 2014