A prologue to the restoration of the empire

The Ukraine-Russia union treaty of 1920

A hotbed of physicists

The rise and fall of Kharkiv’s school of physics under Josef Stalin

Will the Russian sea swallow Ukraine?

How Russia’s policy of assimilation transformed over time

Essence and specificity of the Russian-Soviet power

What system they are trying to restore in Russia today

Punitive psychiatry and its victims

How dissidents were punished in an era of a “real socialism”

“Born in the great hour”

How Yevhen Konovalets managed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists as it turned to follow the course of Halychyna youth

A noble identity

Who were the gentry that lived on the Ukrainian lands in the 14th-16th centuries?

The forging of unity

How the idea of Ukraine crossed imperial borders from East to West

Nuclear arms in the hands of Russian leaders

The missile rhetoric from Stalin to Putin

The precursor to the Holodomor

What Stalin adopted from the Leninist experience of suppressing anti-Soviet protests in 1921

Skoropadsky and the federalist myth

Where did one of the most negative myths about Hetman Skoropadsky come from?

From the Law of Rus to Constitution

Law and self-governance in Ukraine’s territory from the 14th through the 18th century

A reform that ruined the Soviet Union

Why the bomb laid under the foundation of the USSR exploded

The strikes of opportunism and independence

While defending its interests, the soviet coal industry helped the Soviet Union collapse

Three pitfalls of the Volhynia tragedy

By opening a memorial in Sahryń, Ukrainians have begun to dictate the "agenda" of the Volhynia issue

Elections and the Great Terror

How Soviet citizens ended up voting unanimously in elections

A horror story from the Cossack Hetmanate

The crimes and execution of Pavlo Matsapura’s gang that inspired an 18th-century word for villain

Tatlin: Materials as art

Volodymyr Tatlin and his place in the Malevich’s circle in Kyiv

Polish politics in Volyn

Henryk Józewski represents some of the most interesting aspects in the Ukrainian-Polish history of the 20th century. What was his legacy as the voievode of Volyn and why he resigned on April 13, 1938

The grand chessboard: Ukrainian-Polish clashes

On March 2, 1919, the Polish government decided to polonize and colonialize Volynhia, as the Volyn region of Ukraine was then known

The genesis of Ukrainian conservatism

What shaped the aristocratic tradition in politics between the Cossack period and the liberation struggle in 1917-1920

The Fifth Line

What national policy was like in the USSR

Vladimir Lenin: A view from 2017

A historian looks at the crucial cult of the Soviet Union

Riding the currents

The origins of Dnipro, the city and its name