Michael Ignatieff, Author at Euromaidan Press

Michael Ignatieff

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Michael Ignatieff, Professor of History and Rector Emeritus of Central European University in Vienna, is a former Canadian politician and, most recently, author of The Russian Album (Pushkin Press, 2023). He has been awarded this year’s Princess of Asturias Prize in the social sciences.

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Opinion

One grandmother’s howl echoes centuries of Ukraine’s fight against Russian Empire

In a Ukrainian churchyard, an elderly woman's memories - spanning from pre-revolutionary Russia through Stalin's Holodomor to Nazi occupation - reveal why today's Ukrainians are fighting for a future free from imperial control, writes former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff.