The Ukrainian Week

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
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
19 July, 2016	History	The roads of underground capitalism in the USSR The story of a Stalin-era shady businessman
9 October, 2015	World	Henrik Meinander: “Any kind of Ukraine’s neutrality would be a Russian-dependent one” Finnish historian talks about the relations between Finland and USSR after World War II, the prospects of neutrality for Ukraine, and the future of a new Cold War
24 February, 2015	Society	Trouble at the Academy On the maladies afflicting Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences and its chances of recovery
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		Poor Russia After the USSR collapsed, Russia delved into amnesia, then into rehabilitation of the Soviet past which turned grotesque through guilty conscience and lack of culture
16 October, 2013	History	Subjugated Europe Stalin’s moves to establish communist governments in Central and Eastern Europe relied largely on local elements and tools already tested in the USSR
20 September, 2013	Society	Francis Fukuyama on middle class, trust for the state and the end of history "Not all countries will become successful democracies. But I still think of liberal democracy as the only serious alternative"
6 August, 2013	News	73 thou files still classified in Ukrainian Archives Currently, Ukrainian archives store 79,105 classified secret files of Soviet age, State Archives Service of Ukraine reports
5 July, 2013		Freedom for History The myths of the “Great Patriotic War” are a massive misrepresentation of history and a tricky political trap for Ukrainians who are forbidden from recovering their own history and claiming recognition of their suffering
25 June, 2013		The Legacy of George Orwell On 25 June 2013, George Orwell (1903–1950) would turn 110. He appears to have been the real prophet of totalitarianism, and far and away the most insightful writer in the West who got the very essence of the tragedy of Eastern Europe.
14 June, 2013	History	The Virus of Rebellion The 1953 uprising initiated by Ukrainian political prisoners in the Norilsk forced labour camp was the first step towards the downfall of the Gulag.
5 June, 2013	News	Survey: Nostalgia for the USSR fades in Ukraine Over the past 2.5 years, Ukrainians have grown less nostalgic over the USSR, reports Rating, a sociological group, based on its survey held in March.
22 February, 2013	Society	Political Madness Dutch Sovietologist Robert van Voren speaks about Soviet repressive psychiatry and its surviving offshoots
12 November, 2012	History	An Alien Invasion The sovietization of Western Ukraine in 1939-41 was a triumph of Bolshevik barbarity over the more cultured “liberated” population
29 August, 2012	History	Stalin’s “Surgery” Several operations against national minorities were carried out alongside class-based persecutions and purges among ranking party members in Ukraine
3 July, 2012	History	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
21 May, 2012	History	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
18 April, 2012	History	Gender in the USSR The omnipresent “managing and leading force” of soviet gender norms dominated relationships between men and women in the Soviet Union, leaving a heavy imprint on their development and evolution
2 February, 2012	Culture	The Western Brand The socio-cultural revolution of soviet mods against boring clothes, music and behaviour in the USSR
19 January, 2012		European Time Contemporary watches do not tick. They produce no sounds at all
16 January, 2012	World	Running Away From Communism Ronaldas Racinkas, who is tasked with providing a legal assessment of the crimes committed by totalitarian regimes against Lithuanians, speaks on his country’s successes and its failures in saying goodbye to its Soviet legacy
23 December, 2011	History	Men of the Crowd How Homo Sovieticus was created
25 November, 2011	History	Hostages to the System The last mass deportation of Ukrainians was carried out 60 years ago to satisfy Moscow's interests
3 October, 2011	Investigation	Volyn's Own Katyn A mass grave of what appear to be victims of the NKVD killed in 1939-41 has been discovered in Volodymyr-Volynsky
13 May, 2011	Politics	Molotov-Brezhnev Cocktail How Soviet myths about the “Great Patriotic War” and the “Great Victory” were created and what they concealed
30 December, 2010	Politics	USSR Is Back In 2011, Ukraine will in many ways look like the USSR at the time of stagnation