Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ISHCHENKO Serhii
The latest round of horrific bloodshed in Israel/Palestine prompts us to recall not only the sad fate of this troubled region, but also Jewish history. Today, everything related to Jewry and its past is “monopolized” by the State of Israel. But this was not always the case. In Eastern Europe, (...)
, by VELYCHENKO Stephen
Background.
At least 5.7 million of tsarist Ukraine’s population in 1917 were classfied as urban. Declared Russians were approximately 10% of the total population, 33% of the urban population, 43% of the population in the eight largest cities, and 52 per cent in the four largest cities. Of (...)
, by HIMKA John-Paul
The difference between the Stalinist and post-Stalinist policies of Russification is that Stalin dealt a series of spectacularly violent blows to the Ukrainian nation, while his successors intiated a relatively nonviolent but relentless and systematic program of reducing the sphere of (...)
Ukrainian writers and poets have, throughout history, played an important role in shaping Ukrainian identity especially during the most difficult days, when Ukrainian culture faced existential crisis from occupation by the Polish, Russian (Tsarist, Soviet and Republican) and Romanian (...)
, by FORD Christopher
Christopher Ford looks at the Ukrainian socialist tradition
The rediscovery of the Ukrainian socialist tradition is a key part of building solidarity with today’s Ukrainian freedom struggles. Ukraine’s vernacular left suffered not only extermination under Stalin and Hitler but a long (...)
, by After Silence, LE TREHONDAT Patrick
Officially ignored stories are kept silent: in family silences, more often than not, they are traumatic experiences linked to the past, in particular to the era of Soviet and National Socialist violence, but also to the Ukrainian present. “It is time to reveal what is hidden, to explore the (...)
, by HIMKA John-Paul
As many other nations, Ukrainians hoped to use the disintegration of the imperial order in the aftermath of World War I to establish their own state. Although Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, and Poles managed that task, and other East European nations formed federations (...)
, by HIMKA John-Paul
Who perpetrated the Lviv pogrom of July 1941?
The day after the proclamation of Ukrainian nationalist leader Yaroslav Stetsko’s state of Ukraine, on July 1, 1941, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) pasted posters around Lviv with Mykola Mikhnovsky’s slogan, “Ukraine for (...)
In March 1917 Ukrainian national-liberation movement formed Ukrainian Central Rada - an organization to self-govern Ukrainian affairs. Central Rada was formed by two radical-socialist parties. In its nature, Central Rada wasn’t a parliament, but rather a coalition of trade-unionists, feminist (...)
, by Direct Action/Pryama Diya
Independent Ukrainian student union Pryama diya (Direct Action)
The situation before the First World War
The origins of this phenomenon date back to 1772. It was then that Eastern Galicia and Lviv itself were ceded to the Austrian Empire following the first partition of the (...)
, by HIMKA John-Paul
I estimate that in 1815 about 90 percent of those who used the Ukrainian language in their daily life were enserfed peasants. They were also the only ones who retained and continued to creatively develop traditional folkways. The Ukrainian elite in the Russian empire – mainly descendents of (...)
, by Syllepse Publishing House
Figure of the Ukrainian anti-Stalinist Marxist left, Marko Bojcun (March 21, 1951-March 11, 2023) has just disappeared. He is notably the author of The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine: 1897-1918 (The labor movement and the national question in Ukraine: 1897-1918, Brill, (...)
, by NICHOLS Dick
When Ukrainian writer, teacher and activist Marko Bojcun died in England on March 11 after a long fight against cancer, an important link snapped in the chain of struggle for the Ukrainian people’s social and national emancipation.
Bojcun’s work is required reading for anyone who wants to (...)
, by BEKIER Stefan, PRESUMEY Vincent
Vincent Présumey and Stefan Bekier examine the myths and legends that are circulated about Ukraine to deny its right to national sovereignty. A Labour Hub long read.
Ukraine and Ukrainians are the subject of a series of myths and legends on the one hand, and erasures of their real history (...)
, by BRENTLER Alexander, SPORRER Wolfgang
The Minsk Agreements were meant to ease conflict in the Donbas, only to be torn to shreds by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A diplomat involved in the Minsk process tells Jacobin why it failed, and what chance diplomacy has of de-escalating the war.
A year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, (...)
, by LE TREHONDAT Patrick
The cooperative movement in Ukraine was born at the end of the 19e century.
Small Ukrainian producers could not provide for their needs alone in the face of competition from large, mostly Russian, companies. In order to resist the market more effectively, it was necessary to unite and (...)
, by FUENTES Federico, YURCHENKO Yuliya
Ukrainian socialist and author of Ukraine and the Empire of Capital Yuliya Yurchenko discusses the key domestic factors that shaped Ukrainian politics from independence to Russia’s invasion with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes.
In your book, you insist on looking at domestic factors to (...)
, by PEREKHODA Hanna, PIÉGAIS Gwendal
The industrial lungs of the Russian Empire and then of the Soviet Union, the Donbass was above all the transmission belt of imperial and post-imperial power in a periphery treated with suspicion.
Hanna Perekhoda is a doctoral student and assistant at the Institute of Political Studies at (...)
, by KORNEICHUK Lisa
No one would call an artist from India “British” or an artist from Peru “Spanish,” so why do museums continue to label Ukrainian artists as “Russian”?
When Eastern Europeans visit an art museum abroad, they are, by default, forced to admit that things they consider native do not belong to (...)
Hryhoriy Potemkin wrote in 1794: “Remove Tatars from Belbek, Kacha, Sudak, Uskut, Old Crimea, and generally from mountainous regions; of those Tatars who live in the steppes, no one should be left behind; and if any of the Moors wish to leave, they should be immediately added to the (...)
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