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 […]
Mounting Socialism on Camel’s Back: An Interview with Sarah Cameron on the Famine in Kazakhstan
Sarah Cameron is an American historian at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include the history of crimes against humanity, environmental issues, and the societies and cultures of Central Asia. In 2018, she published a book about the famine in Kazakhstan (Asharshylyk), The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan. The […]
How the Nations of Eastern Europe Tried to Civilize Each Other: A Conversation with Polish Historian Ela Kwiecinska
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Joan Martinez-Alier: “Podolynsky was ahead of his time”
Serhii Podolynsky (1850-1891) is a paradoxical figure. A semi-forgotten Ukrainian sociologist (in Ukraine, not abroad), he is perhaps one of the most original Ukrainian social theoreticians of the 19th century. His impact is significant but understudied. Revolutionary agitator, profound researcher, madman – what is the most important in his life? Drahomanov collaborated cautiously with this […]
What happened to Ukraine’s May 9, Victory Day? A discussion with Ukrainian historian Georgiy Kasianov
Since Ukraine's declaration of independence, there have been shifts in various policies concerning the observance of May 9, whether as Victory Day or Memorial Day. How was Victory Day marked during the tenures of the first two presidents, Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma? Was there ongoing discourse regarding the commemoration and celebration of this occasion? […]
Anna Kuliscioff: The Extraordinary Life of a European Socialist
It went largely unnoticed that this year marked the 170th anniversary of a woman whose name was once known to many: revolutionaries and police officers in various European countries, medical specialists and labor lawyers, labor movement activists and parliamentary politicians, anarchists and Marxists, feminists and anti-fascists. She was a member of the inner circle of […]
Streiks, Gewerkschaften und Arbeiterrate. Die Ratebewegung in Deutschland am Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges
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Socialism, Yidishkeyt, Doykeyt: A Brief History of the Jewish Bund
The latest round of horrific bloodshed in Israel/Palestine prompts us to recall not only the sad fate of this troubled region, but also Jewish history. Today, everything related to Jewry and its past is “monopolized” by the State of Israel. But this was not always the case. In Eastern Europe, there were alternatives to the […]
The Waffen-SS “Galicia” Division: The Dead End of Glorification
On September 22, during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the Canadian Parliament, the audience gave a standing ovation to 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, who was invited by Parliament Speaker Anthony Rota. Rota introduced the guest as a “hero of Ukraine and Canada” who “fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians.” As it turned out, Hunka was […]
De-occupation of Crimea: Crimean Tatars and the Path toward Decolonization
In 2020, when I conducted my ethnographic fieldwork in Crimea, few expected it to be de-occupied any time soon. In mainland Ukraine too, the saying “next year in Bakhchisaray” sounded naïve and awkward as those who uttered it understood their self-deception perfectly well. Yet, three years later, de-occupy Bakhchisaray is becoming a real possibility. Moreover, many […]
