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Reconfiguration in Post Euromaidan symbolic landscape: comparison of Kyiv and Transcarpathia
142-164Views:44The relation between power and public space has been one of the main interest of geographical
research in the last decades (Massey 1994, Mitchell 2003). Researches have illustrated that
following a regime change, the symbolic space of the city – compiled of street names, statues
and monuments – usually gets reconfigured. Following the Euromaidan, in 2015, the laws on
decommunization were accepted in Ukraine, which disposed more comprehensibly than ever before the banishment of Communist symbols from the public space. The decommunization
besides toponymy, entangled other elements of public space resulting in major shifts the urban
landscape as well.
Main interest of present paper is to study the major shifts in symbolic landscape in the capital,
Kyiv and compare it to the processes that have taken place in the westernmost periphery of the
country, Transcarpathia. Based on the examples of Uzhhorod, Berehove raion and Berehove, our
further aim is to shed light on the role of locality and how local memory is represented in public
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Revisiting enterprise politics in the interwar Hungary: The case of The Rimamurány–Salgótarján Iron Works Co.: Worker‘s lifestyle and rate of living on the colony of the steel factory in Salgótarján before the World War II.
151-166Views:57The Rimamurány–Salgótarján Iron Works Co. in Salgótarján started to run up from 1871. The
people who lived in the workers’ colony of the Steelworks in Salgótarján differentiated themselves
from the rest of the local residents not only spatially but also in their appearance, as a result of
their higher standard of living. At the begining of the 20th century the major streets of the colony
(Acélgyári Street) had macadam or stoned surface and were lit with public street lightning. The
duty of the socalled Dwelling Master was to guarantee neat, clean, tidy streets within the colony.
Steelworkers had more opportunity to visit the shops and barbershop than those men who lived
within the downtown. This difference was partly due to their higher income and partly due to
the fact that the services of the comany’s shop and the barber at the colony were much cheaper
than those of other local barbers since it was ordered so by factory management. Workers’
houses were up to the standards of the time, they did not pay rent or just a very low price and
workers had a possibility to build their own garden houses on the land of the company. All this
fundamentally changed in the second half of the 1940s owing to post-war lack of raw material
and Socialist ’modernization’ and uniformization. The period of communist dictatorship after
World War II, nationalization of the works and Socialist ’modernization’ created trauma at the
colony.
