The Ukrainian Week

3 January, 2020	History	Capitulation kozak-style: The death of 1,000 cuts How Ukraine’s statehood collapsed in the 17th and 18th centuries
17 March, 2019	History	“Born in the great hour” How Yevhen Konovalets managed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists as it turned to follow the course of Halychyna youth
9 March, 2019	History	A noble identity Who were the gentry that lived on the Ukrainian lands in the 14th-16th centuries?
3 March, 2019	History	The forging of unity How the idea of Ukraine crossed imperial borders from East to West
25 February, 2019	Society	Born or becoming Ukrainian? National identity in the 21st century from a sociological perspective
1 August, 2018	History	A horror story from the Cossack Hetmanate The crimes and execution of Pavlo Matsapura’s gang that inspired an 18th-century word for villain
19 September, 2016	History	From autonomism to statehood The evolution of Ukrainian elite and its state-building concepts offers a valuable lesson to the country today
11 January, 2016	History	The Rise and Fall of Russian Wannbes Most of the crimes against Ukrainians have been at the hands of other Ukrainians. What’s important now is to understand how this phenomenon of the Malorosians or Little Russians happened
5 January, 2015	History	Crimean Anchor The rationale behind transferring the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954
28 December, 2014	Society	Crimea: The Multitude of Nations The Bulgarians, Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Karaites, Crimean Tatars, Krymchaks, Ukrainians, Russians, Romani – these are just the most prominent of the ethnic groups that populated the peninsula over the last 150 years
19 August, 2014	History	19th-century Ukraine: Between Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism Ukrainian sociopolitical movement between the mid-19th and early 20th century seemed to involve only “conscious Ukrainians”. Even then, however, forces existed which had not yet actively declared their pro-Ukrainian nature but had huge sociopolitical potential
5 September, 2013	History	The Cradle of Indo-Europeans The dawn of Indo-Europeans on the Ukrainian steppes
16 July, 2013	News	The Economist: Volyn remains one the darkest chapters in the Polish-Ukrainian history, and one of the most misunderstood On July 14 Poland’s President Bronisław Komorowski visited Ukraine for a memorial service for the victims of the Volyn tragedy in 1943-44. He was joined by Ukraine’s Vice Premier Kostiantyn Hryshchenko.
6 July, 2013	History	The First Economic Revolution By mastering new ways of procuring food, ancient people were freed from the dependence on natural factors, causing their numbers to grow exponentially
30 April, 2013		Should the Volyn Crime Be Condemned? Ukraine must have its own national history, not one dictated by Moscow. And the Ukrainian Insurgent Army is one of its elements.
15 March, 2013	History	Liberated, Only to Be Sent into Battle Battles for Ukraine went hand in hand with the irresponsible and merciless exploitation of the local population in the offensive operations of the Red Army
22 January, 2013	History	Kyivan Rus' as an Ancient Ukrainian State From the viewpoint of contemporary European ethnology, the people who inhabited Southern Rus' in the 10th through the 13th century A.D. and were governed by the principalities of Kyiv, Pereiaslav and Halych had proto-Ukrainian ethnolinguistic traits
24 November, 2012	History	Terra Sudorum At one time scattered between the Neman and Western Bug Rivers, the Yotvingians contributed to the development of several Eastern European nations
1 November, 2012	Society	In Russia’s Shadow Andreas Kappeler talks about why Ukraine is still a blank space on Western Europe’s mental map
22 October, 2012	History	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
19 September, 2012	History	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.
17 September, 2012	History	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
24 August, 2012		Andrey Sheptytskiy Unrecognized Having saved 150 Jews during the war, Andrey Sheptytskiy, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (uniate church), deserves the Israeli title of “Righteous Gentile”
24 July, 2012	History	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
4 July, 2012	History	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
27 June, 2012	History	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”
26 June, 2012	History	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
18 June, 2012	History	Viacheslav Lypynsky: Champion of Conservatism He formulated the idea of a political nation and advocated an aristocratic path toward building a Ukrainian state
1 June, 2012	History	Where Did “Ukraine” Come From? ‘Ukraine’, as a title, gained its political and geographical role in the 19th century
17 April, 2012	History	The Rise of the Celts In the early 21st century, the words Celts and Celtic became entrenched in the arsenal of pop culture as well as commercially successful for everything from beer and cigarettes to basketball teams
30 March, 2012	History	The Land of Oium Despite their short sojourn in Ukrainian territory, Gothic tribes made a large contribution to the culture of ancient Ukraine
30 March, 2012	History	Fighting Over the Goths Who has the right to claim Gothic heritage in 20th-century? This becomes part of an ideological struggle in Ukraine
28 March, 2012	History	Missed Opportunity In March 1917 a wave of national revival surged over Dnieper Ukraine, only to be wasted later by the Central Rada
22 March, 2012	History	From the Imperial to the National Army How Russian Army units were made Ukrainian
14 March, 2012	History	Unknown Eastern Ukraine In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians were killed and russified in Eastern Slobozhanshchyna* and the North Caucasus
27 February, 2012	History	Eastern Convicts 1942 saw the beginning of the mass deportation of people from Ukraine for forced labor in the Third Reich
9 February, 2012	History	Can Historians Be Trusted With History? Historical memory invented by Russia – from books to films in which facts do not always match the reality – is being imposed on Ukrainian society
18 January, 2012	History	Christmas Kutia Behind Bars* Defying prohibition, Ukrainian political prisoners celebrated Christmas in Polish, Nazi and Soviet prisons and camps
23 December, 2011	History	Men of the Crowd How Homo Sovieticus was created
19 December, 2011		Painful Memory The Bolshevik execution of 359 fighters who participated in the UNR’s Second Winter Campaign immortalized the area which is now quietly dying
19 December, 2011	History	Bloody Massacre in Bazar On November 21, 1921, the Bolsheviks stopped the Second Winter Campaign of the UNR army which was meant to launch a united struggle against the Soviets
29 October, 2011	World	Finland Finds What Everyone Else is Looking For Scandinavian anthropologist and sociologist Hans-Jørgen Wallin Weihe talks about historical traumas, college independence and existential challenges
26 October, 2011	History	Life Without Illusions The Bolsheviks successfully utilized feuds, fear and servility among intellectuals to tighten their totalitarian regime and eliminate opponents like Serhiy Yefremov
14 October, 2011	History	Unwilling Instrument of the State After luring UNR General Yuriy Tiutiunnyk to the USSR, the Bolsheviks used his knowledge and connections and later shot him as “spent material”
7 October, 2011	History	No Unity, No Statehood The failure of Ukrainian elites to agree among themselves for the sake of independence in the 14th and 15th centuries led to the breakup of the Rus’ principality and incorporation of its parts into Poland, Lithuania and Hungary
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
26 September, 2011	History	The Spirit of Statehood An unrealized project of Ukrainian conservatism
6 September, 2011	History	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.
31 August, 2011	History	Elysium or Barracks? Ivan Franko and his vision of the 20th century
25 August, 2011	History	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
1 August, 2011	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
4 July, 2011	History	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”
6 June, 2011	History	Free In Captivity Valerii Marchenko chose death over submitting to evil
16 May, 2011	History	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
12 May, 2011	Politics	Not Russia The twisted vision of Ukrane can turn out fatal to European security
10 May, 2011	History	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
6 May, 2011	History	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
5 April, 2011	Regions	Donbas Uprising On March 1, 1991, Donetsk miners started a general strike, a deliberate step to break up the soviet empire. Unfortunately, the national democratic movement failed to follow suit
17 March, 2011	History	Family Histories Genealogy is becoming increasingly popular with Ukrainians, but the poorly-equipped archives prevent family history research from turning into a widespread practice
7 March, 2011	Society	Battle Over The Black Raven: Leon Trotsky vs. Oleksandr Feldman Oleksandr Feldman, a dyed-in-the-wool fighter against Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism and the sponsor of a bill he introduced while still a BYuT member and which reflects this crusade, has reached new political heights
6 March, 2011	History	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”
17 February, 2011	History	Who Betrayed Ivan Mazepa? Mazepa failed because of greedy Ukrainian Cossack officers and the clergy's obsession with self-importance
3 February, 2011	History	The Demise of Merchants Did Ukrainian merchants in the Hetman state stand in anyone’s way?
1 February, 2011	Society	Will the Cities of Ukraine Become Ukrainian Cities? Whether cities of Ukraine become more Ukrainian has a direct impact on what Ukraine itself will be like