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

Tymur Bobrovsky: "We had a chance to present what has been preserved in Chersonese as unique heritage of the world scale"

Ways to protect Ukrainian cultural and historical heritage in the annexed Crimea and frontline areas

The Man Who Never Laid Down Arms

Former UPA fighter shares his story of struggle against the Nazis and NKVD, GULAGs and return to Ukraine

The Many Faces of Tradition

How Ukrainians have developed tolerance for other religions

Great Victories: The Burden of Faking an Empire

Empires are fated to drag along with them a cast iron wreath of invincibility and lead chains of infallibility. An empire can never lose or make a mistake, otherwise, it’s not really an empire

From Munich to Yalta

The beginning and end of World War II brought about political collusions that greatly discredited the leaders of Western democracies

Lilly, The Hetman's Daughter

Yelyzaveta Skoropadska in art, politics and charity in some of the most tragic years of Ukrainian history

Russia Against Europe

Why is Russia so persistently aggressing on Ukraine?

Crimean Anchor

The rationale behind transferring the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954

What Makes Kharkiv Ukrainian

Russia insists that Kharkiv does not belong to Ukraine. Meanwhile, even several waves of Russification failed to make it truly Russian