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portrait of Shevchenko by Ukrainian artist Ilia Shulha, titled Taras Shevchenko Returning from Exil by Boat.
Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine
In this 1919 caricature, Ukrainians are surrounded by a Bolshevik (to the north, man with hat and red star), a Russian White Army soldier (to the east, with Russian eagle flag and a short whip), and to the west a Polish soldier, a Hungarian (in pink uniform) and two Romanian soldiers. Wikimedia Commons https://theconversation.com/ukraine-as-a-borderland-a-brief-history-of-ukraines-place-between-europe-and-russia-178168
Ukraine in War and Revolution
UNR postcard (ca. 1918), Ukrainians face invading Russia. Caption: “Our enemies die like the dew in the sun and we brothers will rule in our turn.” From the author’s collection.
Ukrainian Independence: From Versailles 1 to Versailles 2
a man harvesting wheat - Lviv, Ukraine 1991 Wheat Harvest on Collective Farm 1991 by Manhhai, Flickr, cc-by 2.0
Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
ancient Vikings
Rus Not Russia
The National Crest of Transnistria.
Transnistria: The History Behind the Russian-backed Region
A group of Kyiv civilians gather in a basement downtown to make Molotov Cocktails to be used against Russian troops in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2022.
Ukraine in War and Revolution
The Taras Shevchenko monument in Borodyanka, Ukraine damaged by the Russian attack, April 2022.
Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine
A wheat field in Ukraine resembles the colors on the country's flag.
Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
The Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Rus not Russia
Ukrainian soldier with blue and yellow ribbon overlay
Understanding the War in Ukraine: Insights from the Recent Past, 1991—Present
Ukrainian refugees sheltering beneath a bridge in Kyiv, March 5, 2022.
“The Tragedy Has Never Left Us.” On the War in Ukraine
Statue and Ukrainian Flag
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
image of Mendeleev with periodic table of elements in background
Mendeleev's Periodic Table
Book cover of To Break Russia's Chains by Vladimir Alexandrov
Terrorism as the Path to a Better Russia
Two Nord Stream pipes are welded together on the Castoro Sei pipelaying vessel in preparation for laying them beneath the Baltic Sea, 2011.
The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev
Mendeleev's Periodic Table
In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow, armed with tsarist insignia and shouting the anti-immigrant chant "Let's give Russia back to the Russians!"
Russia’s Lost Empire
An artist's rendering of the Tunguska event
The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow
Mutineers in Petrograd during March 1917, shooting upon the Tsar’s police forces.
Russia’s Trial by Fire
Soldiers marching in front of the memorial - The Motherland Calls in Volgograd.
Living in History: Stalingrad at 75
Abovian Among the Kurds, painting by Mkrtich Sedrakyan, 1950. (Image from author's personal collection, courtesy of the Khachatur Abovian House-Museum, Yerevan, Armenia.)
Top Ten Origins: Russia’s Relations with the Kurds
Lenin waving flag in front of crowd of workers and soldiers
From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100
Three soldiers at an observation station on the Western Front in 1918.
The Long Legacy of World War I