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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 them. The (...)
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 appropriate (...)
It is necessary to bury this miserable cult of totalitarian leadership, imposed on us by enemy propaganda, because it contains neither benefit nor truth. Its existence only creates misunderstandings and exposes us as ignorant fools, who, unfortunately, in their overwhelming majority do not (...)
On the Ukrainian Art History Twitter, an American researcher shared a strange discovery yesterday
"Yesterday was my last day as a researcher at the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey. I researched the Chernobyl disaster in art there for almost four months. I discovered that 77 Ukrainian artists (...)
Ukrainian mainstream historians lump Lenin and Putin together, because both were ready to invade Ukraine. But, as Andrii Zdorov explains, the difference between the Bolsheviks and the modern masters of the Kremlin is that the Bolsheviks had a rational progressive modernist ideology and were able to admit their mistakes.
105 years ago, on December 17, 1917, Kyiv received by telegraph from Petrograd the “Manifesto to the Ukrainian people with ultimatum demands to the Ukrainian Rada (...)
On February 21, 2022, Vladimir Putin gave a long speech whose purpose was to justify the invasion of Ukraine, launched only three days later. According to the Russian president, the Ukrainian state is an illegitimate invention and the Ukrainians’ claim to a distinct identity is nothing more than (...)
“I wanted to dedicate this step to one thing – if we want understanding and national unity, we must live on the true story. Lies will not lead to partnership,” — famous quote by Ukrainian president Viktor Uschenko on the granting Stepan Bandera status of national hero.
The same person did a lot (...)
A global perspective
A very positive feature of Marco Bojcun’s new book, ‘Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine’, is that it attempts to situate the development of capitalism in Ukraine in the global perspective. The author cites some authors from the tradition of world-system analysis, such as (...)
Since 2014, when Russia began its war on Ukraine in Donbas, visual representations of the eastern region have constantly circulated in film, television, and social media. As Oleksiy Radynski has pointed out, engagement with video documentation through social media is a definitive feature of the (...)
At the end of 1965, the apparatchiks of the Communist Party of Ukraine received an outrageous samizdat – in Ukrainian: samvydav – entitled “Internationalism or Russification?”. It argued that behind the facade of fraternal coexistence of peoples in the USSR, there lurked a Great Russian chauvinism (...)
A Historian’s Perspective
This article looks at Ukraine’s geopolitical position from a historian’s perspective. It is divided into three parts, reflecting on Ukraine’s neglected position vis-à-vis the European Union, the unreliable ‘ally’ United States, and Russia’s attempt to assert its dominance. (...)
After February 24, 2022, when the Russian army attacked Ukraine, the sinister image of Russia in the discourse of the Ukrainian mass media took the form of an “Absolute Evil” (Russia is “Mordor” and Russians are “orcs”). Any manifestations of this evil were regarded as toxic and disastrous for (...)
In this pivotal war on a global scale, the Ukrainian nation is struggling to preserve its independence, obtained only 30 years ago, after centuries of domination and relentless Russification. It rejects the “Trinitarian” Russian nation (Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine) imagined in the tsarist era (...)
How do the working people of the world transform themselves from a plethora of groups waging a multitude of scattered struggles for survival and dignity to a revolutionary force capable of ending capitalism, governing the earth, and taking over production? They have innumerable tasks before (...)
On May 8-9, we in Спільне / Commons Journal often reposted memories about Auschwitz by Roman Rosdolsky, one of Ukraine’s most prominent Marxists. He was imprisoned by the Germans for helping the Jews, but he was lucky to survive.
This is a translation of memoirs in English by John-Paul Himka – (...)
This was written as Russia’s aggressive war has been raging in Ukraine. I think a relatively short history of Ukraine in English, one that can be read in a couple of hours, can help people orient themselves to the issues. Every historical survey is, of course, an interpretation and a (...)
Putin’s Russia is raining destruction down on the citizens and infrastructure of Ukraine, supposedly in the name of the “denazification” of the country. The Russian president and his propaganda machine have been greatly exaggerating the strength of neofascist trends there, often brazenly lying. (...)
At the turn of the last century, Ukraine’s labor movement was subject to tsarist domination and divided along linguistic lines. The revolutions of 1917 inspired calls for self-determination and the formation of a common Ukrainian identity.
Faced with the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, (...)
Published here is a series of rare texts of the debates of the Ukrainian Marxists of the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party at the crucial turning point of the revolution in January 1919. Christopher Ford is author of UKAPISME - Une Gauche perdue, Le marxisme anti-colonial dans la (...)
The Donbas is at the heart of Vladimir Putin’s claim that Lenin divided Russia to create Ukraine. Yet the region’s real history shows how much the Bolsheviks struggled with demands for national autonomy amid the collapse of the tsarist empire.
Announcing the Russian invasion of Ukraine late (...)
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