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Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federalism and the Tigray War: A Dialogue on the Roots of Violence

Last year, we published an interview with social geographer Tekle Weldemichael about the war in Tigray. Shortly after the publication, we received a critical response from our reader Christian Mamo, who grew up in Ethiopia in a Ukrainian-Ethiopian family and worked as a journalist in Kyiv for several years before the Russian invasion. According to […]

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“Now We Have Fascists”: Howie Hawkins on Trump and the Left’s Resistance Strategy

Denys Pilash: Howie, you came to Ukraine as part of your European trip. Сould you please explain what was the purpose and how it aligns with your solidarity with the people of Ukraine that you have expressed since the beginning of full-scale invasion? Howie Hawkins: I've been working with the people in Ukraine and Ukrainians […]

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Bakhmut-Kyiv-Prague: Industrialization, Literary Modernism and Ukrainian Nation-Building Across Interwar Borders

My lecture[1] discusses Ukrainian literary modernism from the perspective of various socialist visions of modernity and is aimed to combine different cases from entangled Ukrainian history of the interwar period through the figure of literary critic, politician and sociologist Mykyta Shapoval-Sriblians’kyi.  I propose to consider socialism, including the radical Bolshevik one, – as a distinct […]

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