Why is it so much harder than anyone expected to break ties with the soviet past?

What system they are trying to restore in Russia today

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

The missile rhetoric from Stalin to Putin

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

Why the bomb laid under the foundation of the USSR exploded

How Soviet citizens ended up voting unanimously in elections

What national policy was like in the USSR

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

Privatization in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its role in the rise of oligarchy

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

After using leftist populist slogans to heat up the situation in the Donbas in the spring of 2014, Russia’s proxies have brought rapacious, feudal bolshevism to the region instead

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

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

What role Gazeta Wyborcza played in Poland's transition from communism to democracy

How much time for Ukrainians to get over the post-genocide syndrome?

Why absurd opinions on “Ukrainian nationalists” are so persistent, and need to be refuted again and again

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

The possibility of change, and the opportunity to make that change stick brings meaning to the idea of independence for many ordinary Ukrainians today

It is much easier to take the approach of multiple narratives than to accept that one side is right and the other wrong

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

Soviet Communism was always reminiscent of the nearly Byzantine sacrosanct structure of symbolic authority, and the fusion of the sacral and secular elements of power

After 1989, East European Communists transformed into social-democrats. Those who survived lustration remained in politics at home through the 1990s and early 2000s

International lawyer Volodymyr Vasylenko speaks about the events leading to Ukraine's independence

Historian Stanislav Kulchytsky speaks to The Ukrainian Week about why the Kremlin needs Ukraine, what threat the annexation of Crimea poses for Russia, what the essence of the problem in Ukrainian-Russian relations is, and how the political Ukrainian nation is emerging