The Democratic Centralists in Ukraine: Challenging Stalin and the Russian Leadership
The Democratic Centralists, or Decists, were a left-wing opposition group within the Bolsheviks who consistently fought against the rise of bureaucratism within the Party and Soviets.
“The Path to Reconciliation Is Only Possible After Condemning the Perpetrators”: A Conversation Between Friends on the 1943–1945 Mass Killings in Volyn
Ela Kwiecińska is a historian, a teacher with Invisible University for Ukraine (IUFU) at the Central European University in Budapest, and a docent at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her doctoral dissertation was dedicated to the idea of an Eastern European civilizing mission in the 19th and early 20th […]
A Conversation with Jairus Banaji on A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism
A book that challenges conventional understandings of the origins of capitalism
Family Archives and Flowers Instead of Concrete: The Second World War in Research and Memory
Interview with Andrii Usach: Historian, Chair of the After Silence NGO
Surviving Genocide: The History of Resistance and Solidarity of the Rohingya People
A long interview with Noor Sadeque, a young Rohingya activist, about the crimes of the Myanmar regime
Laying the Foundations: Bohdan Krawchenko on Publishing and the Civil Service
Bohdan Krawchenko is a social scientist of Ukrainian origin whose academic and intellectual biography spans Canada, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan.
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
Ela Kwiecińska is a Polish historian who used to teach at the University of Warsaw. She was fired because of her critical attitude towards Polish national historiography. Ela currently works in the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Ela’s doctoral dissertation, defended at the European University Institute, focuses on the concept […]
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 […]
