Victor Serge again triumphs over Arthur Koestler
Two images of Stalin’s Great Terror have long competed in the West and even in some former communist…
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History of Ukraine
Anniversary of mass deportation of population from western Ukraine to Siberia
1947 saw the beginning of mass deportations of Ukrainians to Siberia carried out under the name of Operation…
Understanding Polish concern about Ukrainian veneration of the UPA
To reach understanding about the question of the UPA, Ukrainians and Poles need to look critically at their…
Holodomor: Stalin’s genocidal famine of 1932-1933 | Infographic
Holodomor ("death by hunger" in Ukrainian) refers to the starvation of at least four million Ukrainians in 1932–33…
Stalin’s genocidal Holodomor campaign of 1932-33. What we know vs the denialist lies
On 5 July 1933, a desperate appeal for food aid was sent to Stalin from within the Bashkir…
Soviet myths about World War II and their role in contemporary Russian propaganda
We often can understand what is happening today by looking at history. However, in the hands of Russian…
Pro-Moscow “republics” in Ukraine likely to end as did Serbska Kraina in Croatia, Kyiv columnist says
The analogies people employ, even if they are far from exact, often say more about how people see…
Understanding the Ukrainians in WWII Part 3. Of German plans and German collaborators.
On May 22 Volodymyr Katriuk, a Ukrainian World War II veteran and a suspected participant in the massacre…
How Ukraine got into such bad shape
It's happened elsewhere. Countries within the former USSR and all Eastern European countries, including those that have already…
Russian media operates by law of war, tapping into Great Patriotic War myth
The Great Patriotic War was chosen as a central foundational myth by the leadership of the USSR. It…
Control over the past: Russia’s archival policy and Second World War myths
On the April 4, I read an article titled "Spies from the reading room." It described how during the last…
Russian historian: 2014 Ukrainian Maidan affecting Russia much as 1863 Polish revolt did
Drawing on Richard Pipes’ argument that the 1863 Polish revolt was viewed by many Russians as an illegitimate…
Moscow’s attacks on Cossacks show limits of Putin’s ‘reconciliation’ program
“Reconciliation is a good thing, and hostility is bad,” Igor Klyamkin says. “But there are reconciliations and reconciliations,”…
Understanding the Ukrainians in WWII. Part 2. Stories of Ukrainians in the Red Army
On 19 September 1939, advanced units of the Soviet 6th army reached the outskirts of the city of…
Tatar historian: ‘Russians are no more European than are the Tatars’
European scholars now recognize that no one can understand the present without a thorough understanding of the Middle…
Ukrainian conflict is between ‘heirs of Kyivan Rus’ and ‘heirs of Golden Horde’
“The Ukrainian-Russian conflict is to a significant degree a conflict between the heirs of Kyivan Rus [Ukraine] and…
Ukraine and Poland to investigate Volyn tragedy in joint historical commission
The Ukrainian (UINP) and Polish (IPN) Institutes of National Remembrances have made a decision to create a joint historical…
Geopolitical conquests will not save Russia’s national pride, Moscow scholars say
Staunton, May 15 – The pride that people feel in their country consists of two elements: a cognitively…
“Jewish card” of Kremlin propaganda
Russian television and Internet media covering events in Ukraine have tried to play the “Jewish card” for a…
May 1945: We got to Berlin! Glory to Putin for that!
Oleg Kashin via Kashin: "When Putin came to the top, to construct his regime of personal power, he…