Resources on Ukraine

In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms were disrupted by political systems seeking to repress and control the past in order to form new national identities supportive of their own agendas. These collected works focus on commemorative practices, the politics of history, and the way memory influences Ukrainian politics, identity, and culture.

Ukraine's struggle for a national identity plagued this former Soviet Union state long before the Cold War shook the world. Its central location between Eastern Europe and Western Asia invited many different cultures to settle the land, ultimately populating a powerful early medieval society known as Kievan Rus. However, readers will learn how Kievan Rus's Golden Age quickly crumbled with decades of Mongol invasions, Polish-Lithuanian occupation, and Russian empirical ruling.

This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020.

It is all too clear from this analysis on the size of current European forces by country as well as from any analysis of the current military balance between NATO and Russia why the U.S. has threatened to use sanctions against Russia as a substitute for military capability.

Explores the origins of Ukraine, its triumphs and struggles, and provides a comprehensive overview of Ukraine.

Navigates the complicated cultural history of Ukraine and highlights the importance of regional traditions for an understanding of the current political situation.

The monograph is devoted to the modern development of the Ukrainian state, which appeared on the political map after 1991, and examines the factor of regional development of Ukraine, the role of the historical factor in the formation and development of the modern Ukrainian state.

Rather than limiting his study to an examination of the country's numerically largest population - ethnic Ukrainians - scholar Paul Robert Magocsi emphasizes the multicultural nature of Ukraine throughout its history.