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The Ukrainian Crisis: In Russia's Long Shadow

… Within a matter of months, events in Ukraine have transformed the global political order that … of the Soviet Union in 1991. A startled world has watched Ukraine’s political crisis unfold as demonstrators took over … insurgencies in Russian-speaking regions of eastern Ukraine. Sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States …
Ukrainian soldier with blue and yellow ribbon overlay

Understanding the War in Ukraine: Insights from the Recent Past, 1991—Present

… Putin’s rise to power in Russia, and the 2014 Revolution in Ukraine.  Speaker | David L. Hoffmann, College of Arts and … European and Eurasian Studies' "Understanding the War in Ukraine: Weekly Wednesday Speaker Series." … to bring to you today in our series of what we're calling Ukraine Wednesdays, my colleague, David Hoffmann. Let me …
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

… Vladimir Putin’s case for war in Ukraine is simple but flawed. In his view there is no such … the tsarist imperial state. The borderlands (including Ukraine) became arenas of radical nationalization and social … goals, and the collapsing war effort led to anarchy across Ukraine. By the time of nation-wide elections in November, …
Scene in Ukraine

Ukraine, In a Nutshell

Review of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Serhy Yekelchyk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
… Serhy Yekelchyk’s fascinating book The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know  should be required … take years of study to appreciate the intricacy of the Ukraine-Russia relationship from the time of Volodymyr the … 988) to the present, and it would require dozen visits to Ukraine to understand the land and its people. Yet, in only …
Crowds of people waving Ukrainian flags

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part II

… The crisis between Ukraine, Russia, and the European Union/United States … , both from OSU’s Glenn School of Public Affairs, about Ukraine’s struggles to achieve democracy in the post-Soviet … our double feature on events involving Crimea, Russia, and Ukraine.   Leticia Wiggins  So in the first part, we …
The Taras Shevchenko monument in Borodyanka, Ukraine damaged by the Russian attack, April 2022.

Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine

… stringed instrument, the kobza. Shevchenko’s poems imagined Ukraine as a distinct nation with a people, culture, and … Kobzar appropriated the history of the Cossacks for Ukraine. The freedom they embodied became a potent … example, about a 1630 peasant revolt, included these lines: Ukraine, O my dear Ukraine, Trampled by the Polacks! My …
Crowds of people in Kyiv, Ukraine

The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part I

… electrified these past weeks by the explosive events in Ukraine: a dramatic political revolution in Kyiv's … was absorbed into Russia, and what the future holds for Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula. ( Image Source ) Posted … the recent startling and important events transpiring in Ukraine, Crimea, and Putin's Russia, all of us here at …
portrait of Shevchenko by Ukrainian artist Ilia Shulha, titled Taras Shevchenko Returning from Exil by Boat.

Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine

Taras Shevchenko is not just the founder of the modern Ukrainian literary language, he is also the most important symbol of modern Ukrainian nationhood.
UPA soldiers charge

West Ukraine's War Stories: A New Chapter?

The region of western Ukraine makes up just a small percentage of the territory and population of present-day Ukraine, but has historically played an outsized role in the 20th century struggles for control of eastern Europe.
Ilya Repin's late 19th-century painting, "The Zaporozhian Cossacks Replying to the Sultan"

The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors

The Zaporozhian Cossacks were a daring and fearsome people of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries whose adventures fill Ukrainian lore and inspire an enduring Ukrainian spirit of independence and daring.
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A wheat field in Ukraine resembles the colors on the country's flag.

Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe

… After Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, international agencies such as … popular media suggest the wider world had been unaware that Ukraine is so important to the world’s food supply.  In fact, since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has returned to its pre-revolutionary position as a …
Riot police officers in Kyiv, December 2013

A Postcard from Kyiv: A Year of Reckoning for Ukraine

… 2014 was a year of tremendous and unfinished change for Ukraine : a dramatic political revolution in Kyiv's … into Russia, ongoing fighting in the eastern regions of Ukraine, and rising tensions between Russia and the United … essayist, and prose fiction writer who lives in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. He spent much of December 2013 on Kyiv’s Maidan …
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

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has returned to its pre-revolutionary positin as a major agricultural exporter of key commodities.
a ceremony in Ukraine

Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell

When the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917 during World War I, the lands of today’s Ukraine became a battleground of violence and instability until 1922.