Intellectual Resistance

Despite its image as an entrenched military-political entity, the UPA included a number of intellectuals and talented artists who remain little known today

A Collective Portrait of UPA Fighters

4 myths about UPA Fighters

An Alien Invasion

The sovietization of Western Ukraine in 1939-41 was a triumph of Bolshevik barbarity over the more cultured “liberated” population

Freeing Ukraine from Spiritual Dependence

The creation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) 20 years ago was as resolute a step as proclaiming the independence of the Ukrainian state

The Life of the Rebels

The absence of elementary living conditions and a regular supply system in the UPA was offset by active assistance from the local population

A Sweet Lure

Monopolization, dictated by the imperial economic model, already hurt Ukraine back in the 19th century as clearly evidenced by sugar production, one of its most developed industries at that time

Europe in Communism's Crosshairs

The activity of communist parties in Europe was not only part of the Kremlin’s foreign policy tactics but also an additional polarising factor in European society

Urbanization According to Plan

Most flaws of modern Ukrainian cities stem from the soviet construction boom of the 1950s-1970s

The Battle for Crimea

Federalization in the absence of a rule-of-law state degrades regions

How Political Ukrainians Were Born

Having courageously chosen to be Ukrainian, representatives of national minorities essentially activated the Ukrainian national movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The People of the “Golden Man”

Scattered across the vast Eurasian steppes, throughout their history, the Saka were inseparably linked with the population living north of the Black Sea

Divided Between Two Motherlands

Jerzy Nowosielski as a mediator in Polish-Ukrainian intercultural dialogue

Fast Down the Rails. The Turbulent History of Electric Trams

The Ukrainian Week offers a series of articles about technological inventions which have changed human history and induced civilizational progress and modernization of the economic, social and cultural landscape. This week’s story tells about trams, the first urban means of transport.

Stalin’s “Surgery”

Several operations against national minorities were carried out alongside class-based persecutions and purges among ranking party members in Ukraine

Firsthand Experience of the KGB’s “Refinement”

The Ukrainian Week presents Vasyl Lisoviy’s investigative memoirs about the repressive techniques used by the KGB against the activists of the 1960-1980s dissident movement in Ukraine.

The Khersones Betrayal

In July 1942, the soviet command shamefully retreated from Sevastopol, leaving its defenders to the mercy of fate

The Predecessors of European Knights

On their long way from the North Caucasus to Africa, Alans laid the foundation of medieval military tradition in Europe and inspired British mythology

Symbols of Independence

Ukraine’s national flag, emblem and anthem have a long history and national status but have yet to become true national symbols

Archetypes From the Past

The Ukrainian government has implemented just one of all the “reforms” it declared two years ago – cultural policy in Ukraine has returned to the Russian-Soviet framework

Yaromyr Mykytko — Third-generation Political Prisoner

His earliest childhood memory is a long gloomy corridor in a barracks. Yaromyr Mykytko was born on 12 March 1953 in Prokopievsk, Kemerovo Region. When he was three, his family returned to Galicia but his parents kept their Siberia experience to themselves for a long time

How Ukrainians Survived the War

The Ukrainian Week interviewed eyewitnesses of the Second World War, and their stories are far removed from the idolised image of the “Great Patriotic War”

The Voices of the Unheard

Oral history does not only wipe out the barriers between professional historians and simple people, but can also become a powerful instrument for desovietization

Viacheslav Lypynsky: Champion of Conservatism

He formulated the idea of a political nation and advocated an aristocratic path toward building a Ukrainian state

Where Did “Ukraine” Come From?

‘Ukraine’, as a title, gained its political and geographical role in the 19th century

A Continental Union

The Treaty of Rapallo between the Weimar Republic and Soviet Russia paved the way to a revival of German military power after the First World War

A Battle For the Past

Jerzy Eisler talks about the role of history in contemporary Poland and the country's experience with de-sovietization