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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 the (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 on (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 understand (...)
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 the (...)
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 (...)
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