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What is Monument

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Memory, Identity, and Nationalism in European Regions
A type of built form that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event which is relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage. Monuments have different dimensions such as visual, emotional, political, and ideological ones.
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Monuments to Heroes or Construction of Memory About the April Uprising of 2010 in the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan)
Aijarkyn Kojobekova (UNUM, Kyrgyzstan)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8392-9.ch008
Abstract
This chapter deals with the events of April 7th, 2010 in Kyrgyzstan, which are officially referred to as the second revolution against authoritarianism, when 86 demonstrators were shot in front of the governmental house (White House) in Bishkek. The official position is depicted regarding April 7th and the monuments to the fallen demonstrators on the basis of the Presidential speeches and opinions of academics and students as well as the materials from internet forums as a mirror of public perception.
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