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

The conservative revolution of Pavlo Skoropadskiy

How the last Hetman of Ukraine came to power in 1918 and what he achieved

How Ukrainians built Communism

When Nikita Khrushchev came to power, he brought a "Ukrainian clan" with him. It later removed their patron from the helm of the USSR

From autonomism to statehood

The evolution of Ukrainian elite and its state-building concepts offers a valuable lesson to the country today

The rise and fall of Avant-garde

The 1920s’ Avant-garde school of artists was ultimately destroyed as class enemies—for hooliganism and pornography

The roads of underground capitalism in the USSR

The story of a Stalin-era shady businessman

Love, pride and class prejudice

The authors, the readers and the anti- bourgeois persecutors of romance novels in the 1920s

The battle for historical memory

The capacity of a community to maintain an awareness of the image of its past that brings up strong emotions over a long historical period is what we call national memory. Of course, national memory is no mere projection of the past: it is extraordinarily tightly intertwined with the present and the future of people who are joined through common historical memories

Gulnara Bekirova: “Those who stay in Crimea and those who left are in an equally difficult position, albeit their tragedies differ”

In an attempt to understand what Crimea meant and what it means for Ukraine today, to look at important moments in the history of the peninsula and Crimean Tatars, to define the foundation of Crimean Tatar identity, and to analyze the prospects of Crimea’s return to Ukraine and its position after de-occupation, The Ukrainian Week speaks to historian and political scientist Gulnara Bekirova

Illusion of a Federation

Russia broke up in 1917, but the Bolsheviks intended to restore the empire – as a springboard to create a "Global Soviet Republic"

Jazz, Memory, and Freedom: Three Little Stories

When as a student I heard Arsenal, the jazz rock band of the Kaliningrad Philharmonic, I was dumbfounded: in Soviet times Russian musicians were playing music that jazz lovers at once identified as being under the influence of Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tear

The Rise and Fall of Russian Wannbes

Most of the crimes against Ukrainians have been at the hands of other Ukrainians. What’s important now is to understand how this phenomenon of the Malorosians or Little Russians happened

The Independence Imperative

When Ukraine declared independence on August 24, 1991, it not only meant the revival of the Ukrainian state—it was the decisive event in the collapse of the totalitarian soviet empire