The Ukrainian Week

9 December, 2019	History	Bazhan undesired What was concealed in the Stalin Laureate’s biography?
11 October, 2019	Society	The evolution of homo sovieticus Why is it so much harder than anyone expected to break ties with the soviet past?
8 April, 2019	History	Essence and specificity of the Russian-Soviet power What system they are trying to restore in Russia today
6 April, 2019	History	Punitive psychiatry and its victims How dissidents were punished in an era of a “real socialism”
9 February, 2019	History	Nuclear arms in the hands of Russian leaders The missile rhetoric from Stalin to Putin
18 January, 2019	History	The precursor to the Holodomor What Stalin adopted from the Leninist experience of suppressing anti-Soviet protests in 1921
10 November, 2018	History	A reform that ruined the Soviet Union Why the bomb laid under the foundation of the USSR exploded
28 August, 2018	History	Elections and the Great Terror How Soviet citizens ended up voting unanimously in elections
5 October, 2017	History	The Fifth Line What national policy was like in the USSR
3 March, 2017	History	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
31 August, 2016	Economics	Of vouchers and men Privatization in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its role in the rise of oligarchy
23 August, 2016	History	The rise and fall of Avant-garde The 1920s’ Avant-garde school of artists was ultimately destroyed as class enemies—for hooliganism and pornography
26 February, 2016		Back to USSR 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
5 February, 2016	History	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"
2 February, 2016	History	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
11 January, 2016	World	Freedom Quota What role Gazeta Wyborcza played in Poland's transition from communism to democracy
20 November, 2015	Society	The Gen-3 Mission: Beating the Holodomor effect How much time for Ukrainians to get over the post-genocide syndrome?
30 October, 2015		The Dirty Word “Nationalism” Why absurd opinions on “Ukrainian nationalists” are so persistent, and need to be refuted again and again
23 September, 2015	History	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
20 August, 2015	Politics	Learning Independence The possibility of change, and the opportunity to make that change stick brings meaning to the idea of independence for many ordinary Ukrainians today
17 August, 2015		Truth Out of Fashion It is much easier to take the approach of multiple narratives than to accept that one side is right and the other wrong
6 August, 2015	History	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
23 October, 2014		How We Got Rid of Communism 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
23 October, 2014	World	The Red Thaw in Eastern Europe After 1989, East European Communists transformed into social-democrats. Those who survived lustration remained in politics at home through the 1990s and early 2000s
24 September, 2014	History	“Our independence was not pure luck, it was inevitable” International lawyer Volodymyr Vasylenko speaks about the events leading to Ukraine's independence
15 September, 2014	History	Stanislav Kulchytsky:“Psychological dependence on Russia turns Ukrainians into Little Russians” 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