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Ukraine, In a Nutshell
Review of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Serhy Yekelchyk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
