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