The Spirit of Statehood

An unrealized project of Ukrainian conservatism

Overcoming Nihilism

Why an American decided to set up a Museum of Communism in the Czech Republic

The Stolypin Myth: Chimerical And Dangerous

The regime established by Pyotr Stolypin in tsarist Russia was largely the precursor to the Bolshevik dictatorship

Dissident Despite Death

Writer and film director Heliy Snehirov was unable to exist in the crushing Soviet atmosphere and paid for freedom with his life

Stara Samar

In the outskirts of Dnipropetrovsk, one can still find the remains of a fortress built by Ivan Mazepa at the site of an older Cossack village.

Elysium or Barracks?

Ivan Franko and his vision of the 20th century

In The Bloodlands

During the retreat of the Red Army in the summer of 1941, NKVD troops committed mass executions of prisoners not only in Western Ukraine, but also in Vinnytsia, Kharkiv, and Crimea

Ukrainian Division Continues to Fight

Most of Galicia’s men ended up in the UK after the Second World War. There is just a handful of real participants and eyewitnesses surviving who could answer the hard questions. Their lives are a lesson to be learned from history

In the East European Triangle

Prominent French academic Daniel Beauvois talks about quasi-patriotism, national heroes, distorted myths and the status of historical science in Ukraine

Raising The Flag Without Fear

Heorhiy Moskalenko and Viktor Kuksa raised the blue-and-yellow flag in Kyiv 45 years ago

Different Paths, One Independence

Liberation movements were a natural response of oppressed peoples to occupation

Convenient Murder

Raymond Clarinard: “To many French intellectuals, the Petliura case does not exist. They have never known in France what to do with Ukraine”

Free In Captivity

Valerii Marchenko chose death over submitting to evil

Genocidally Modified

Peoples that have experienced mass murders or deportations demand that guilty be brought to justice, but Ukraine continues to be shy in discussing whether or not the Holodomor was indeed genocide

Killing A People

Stanford University Professor Norman M. Naimark speaks about various interpretations of genocide and current court practice

Operation Fleet For Ukraine

An almost symbolic date was chosen to sign the “Kharkiv Treaties” in 2010 – 82 years earlier, on April 29, 1918, Ukraine's blue-and-yellow flags were hoisted for the first time ever by the Black Sea Fleet

The Price of Egoism

The states lying west of Russia could not avoid establishing a tight defense union but they failed to move beyond their own narrow national interests

Andrey Sheptytsky, Lion of Halychyna

Andrey Sheptytsky was the Greek-Catholic Metropolitan who was first met with distrust but later gained respect even from his enemies

A Different Peasantry

The last outbreak of the peasants' armed struggle for their personal and national rights in the territory of central and eastern Ukraine occurred in the early 1930s

The Holodomor As Genocide

The tragedy of Ukrainian peasants meets the West's criteria for genocide

Ukraine: "The Largest European Problem"

Thinking that Hitler was going to set up a puppet Ukrainian state in Transcarpathia and Galicia, the West did not support the formation of a new state - Carpathian Ruthenia

Russian Swastika

While stigmatizing the liberation movements in Lithuania, Estonia, and Ukraine for their “collaborationism,” the Kremlin turns a blind eye to the large number of former White Guards who joined the SS and Wehrmacht in the 1940s

Family Histories

Genealogy is becoming increasingly popular with Ukrainians, but the poorly-equipped archives prevent family history research from turning into a widespread practice

Learning Democracy

German historian Frank Golczewski talks about political technologies from the WWI era, how to build a new empire and the benefits of pluralism

Writing a Factual History of Ukraine

History has been turned into politics. It would seem that false history can be a foundation only for false politicians who dread nothing more than the principle “A clean goal requires clean hands”

Who Betrayed Ivan Mazepa?

Mazepa failed because of greedy Ukrainian Cossack officers and the clergy's obsession with self-importance