Memory production, vandalism, violence: Civil society and lessons from a short life of a monument to Stalin

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Biographical information: Selbi Durdiyeva is a PhD researcher at the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, Northern Ireland. Her PhD research is on examining the role civil society plays in transitional justice processes with respect to the Soviet repressions in Russia, after the breakup of the Soviet Union. She holds an LLM in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from the University of Essex. Byline: Selbi Durdiyeva