This collective work analyzes the ongoing conflict in Ukraine,
providing a coherent picture of Ukraine and Eastern Europe in the
period 2013-2020. Giving voice to different social groups,
scholarly ...communities and agencies relevant to Ukraine's recent
history, The War in Ukraine's Donbas goes beyond
simplistic media interpretations that limit the analysis to
Vladimir Putin and Russian aims to annex Ukraine. Instead, the
authors identify the deeper roots linked to the autonomy and
history of Donbas as a region. The contributions explore local
society and traditions and the alienation from Ukraine caused by
the events of Euromaidan, which saw the removal of the
Donetsk-based president Viktor Yanukovych. Other chapters address
the refugee crisis, the Minsk Accords in 2014 and the impact of the
new president Volodymyr Zelensky and his efforts to bring the war
to an end by negotiations among Russia, Ukraine, France, and
Germany.
The book concludes with four proposals for a durable peace in
Donbas: territorial power-sharing; the conversion of rebels into
legitimate political parties; amnesty for all participants of the
armed conflict; and a transitional period of several years until
political institutions are fully re-established.
Stalin's empire of memory Yekelchyk, Serhy
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Based on declassified materials from eight Ukrainian and Russian archives,Stalin's Empire of Memory, offers a complex and vivid analysis of the politics of memory under Stalinism. Using the Ukrainian ...republic as a case study, Serhy Yekelchyk elucidates the intricate interaction between the Kremlin, non-Russian intellectuals, and their audiences.
Yekelchyk posits that contemporary representations of the past reflected the USSR's evolution into an empire with a complex hierarchy among its nations. In reality, he argues, the authorities never quite managed to control popular historical imagination or fully reconcile Russia's 'glorious past' with national mythologies of the non-Russian nationalities.
Combining archival research with an innovative methodology that links scholarly and political texts with the literary works and artistic images,Stalin's Empire of Memorypresents a lucid, readable text that will become a must-have for students, academics, and anyone interested in Russian history.
Unlikely Allies offers the first comprehensive and
scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian
collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland
during World War II. ...Drawing on extensive archival material, the
Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of
Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar
academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and
Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their
collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full
understanding of the Ukrainian Committee's ties with the occupation
authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and
Jews, in occupied Poland.
Ukrainian nationalists' collaboration created an opportunity to
neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social
life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian
region within the borders of the General Government or an
ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This
led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new
European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of
divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the
position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect
they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also
contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic
conflict. Kubiiovych's wartime experiences with Nazi politicians
and administrators-greatly overlooked and only partially referenced
today-not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and
Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the
larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War
II.
For decades, Ukrainian contacts with the outside world were
minimal, impeded by politics, ideology, and geography. But prior to
the Soviet period the country enjoyed diverse exchanges with, on
the ...one hand, its Islamic neighbours, the Crimean Khanate and the
Ottoman Empire, and, on the other, its central and western European
neighbours, especially Poland and France. Thomas Prymak addresses
geographical knowledge, international travel, political conflicts,
historical relations with religiously diverse neighbours, artistic
developments, and literary and language contacts to smash old
stereotypes about Ukrainian isolation and tell a vivid and original
story. The book treats a wide range of subjects, including
Ukrainian travellers in the Middle East, from pilgrims to the Holy
Land to political exiles in Turkey and Iran; Tatar slave raiding in
Ukraine; the poetry of Taras Shevchenko and the Russian war against
Imam Shamil in the High Caucasus; Ukrainian themes and the French
writers Honoré de Balzac and Prosper Mérimée; Rembrandt's
mysterious painting today titled The Polish Rider ; and
Ilya Repin's legendary painting of the Zaporozhian Cossacks writing
their satirical letter mocking the Turkish sultan. Drawing together
political and cultural history, languages and etymology, and
folklore and art history, Ukraine, the Middle East, and the
West is an original interdisciplinary study that reintroduces
Ukraine's long-overlooked connections beyond Eastern Europe.
From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia – as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it – officially held that the Russian nation consisted of ...three branches: Great Russian, Little Russian (Ukrainian), and White Russian (Belarusian). After the 1917 revolution, this view was discredited by many leading scholars, politicians, and cultural figures, but none were more intimately involved in the dismantling of the old imperial identity and its historical narrative than the eminent Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934).
Hrushevsky took an active part in the work of Ukrainian scholarly, cultural, and political organizations and became the first head of the independent Ukrainian state in 1918. Serhii Plokhy'sUnmaking Imperial Russiaexamines Hrushevsky's construction of a new historical paradigm that brought about the nationalization of the Ukrainian past and established Ukrainian history as a separate field of study. By showing how the ‘all-Russian’ historical paradigm was challenged by the Ukrainian national project, Plokhy provides the indispensable background for understanding the current state of relations between Ukraine and Russia.
Prehistoric Ukraine Lillie, Malcolm C; Potekhina, Inna D; Budd, Chelsea E
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This volume covers the Prehistory of Ukraine from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the end of the Neolithic periods. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of Ukrainian Prehistory from earliest ...times through until the Neolithic Period undertaken by researchers who are currently investigating the Prehistory of Ukraine. At present there are no other English language books on this subject that provide a current synthesis for these periods. The chapters in this volume provide up-to-date overviews of all aspects of prehistoric culture development in Ukraine and present details of the key sites and finds for the periods studied. The book includes the most recent research from all areas of prehistory up to the Neolithic period, and, in addition, areas such as recent radiocarbon dating and its implications for culture chronology are considered; as is a consideration of aDNA and the new insights into culture history this area of research affords; alongside recent macrofossil studies of plant use, and anthropological and stable isotope studies of diet, which all combine to allow greater insights into the nature of human subsistence and cultural developments across the Palaeolithic to Neolithic periods in Ukraine. It is anticipated that this book will be an invaluable resource for students of prehistory throughout Europe in providing an English-language text that is written by researchers who are active in their respective fields and who possess an intimate knowledge of Ukrainian prehistory.
Članek se osredinja na ekonomske in politične begunce iz Ukrajine, ki se zaradi želje po boljšem življenju množično izseljujejo iz domovine, drugi pa so se zaradi vojne na vzhodu države prisiljeni ...razseljevati na varna območja znotraj nje. Članek predstavlja vzroke in posledice tovrstnih migracij zlasti z vidika humanističnih prepričanj, kakršna vidnejši ukrajinski literarni avtorji in avtorice podajajo v svojih esejih, premišljevanjih in zapisih (Jurij Andruhovič, Andrej Kurkov, Tanja Maljarčuk idr.), predvsem ob vprašanju evropskosti Ukrajine oz. ukrajinski (ne)prisotnosti v Evropi. Članek zanima tudi odslikava te problematike v javnem diskurzu, saj se zdi, da so te teme redkeje prisotne v primarnem smislu, poudarjeni pa so vzroki, ki so (tudi) privedli do današnje situacije: vprašanje nacionalnosti in identitete ter poudarjanje patriotizma.
Druga agresija Rusije na Ukrajinu pokrenuta u veljači 2022., u odnosu na onu iz 2014. pokazuje svu brutalnost ruskog režima I nepoštivanje dogovorenih mehanizama suradnje u procesima upravljanja ...krizama s ciljem izbjegavanja snažnijih sukoba I ratova. Je li potrebno, kao posljedica ove Ruske agresije mijenjati postojeću svjetsku sigurnosnu arhitekturu u potpunosti ili je pak treba nadograditi? S obzirom na hibridnost postojećih i budućih sukoba i ratova, društva i države se trebaju pripremiti na te izazove integriranjem vlastitih sposobnosti na nacionalnoj i međunarodnoj razini. U tom procesu, butnu ulogu ima i zaštita kritičnih infrastruktura. Posebno onih koje se smatraju ključnim kritičnim infrastrukturama.
Russia's second aggression against Ukraine launched in February 2022, compared to the one in 2014, shows all the brutality of the Russian regime and disregard for agreed cooperation mechanisms in crisis management processes with the aim of avoiding stronger conflicts and wars. Is it necessary, as a consequence of this Russian aggression, to change the existing global security architecture completely or should it be upgraded? Considering the hybridity of existing and emerging conflicts and wars, societies and states should be prepared for these challenges by integrating their own capabilities at the national and international level. In this process, the protection of critical infrastructures plays an important role. Especially those that are considered as a key critical infrastructure.
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