Non-Russian avant-garde, or how Russia appropriates Ukrainian culture
One of the most well-known art phenomena from the ex-USSR, “russian[1] avant-garde” is perceived as a unique combination…
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Ukraine’s “Executed Renaissance”
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Secret service documents from Ukraine, Georgia & former Czechoslovakia reveal persecution of East European intellectuals
The Ukrainian documents reveal interesting facts about writer and humourist Ostap Vyshnia, filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko, monumentalist artist Mykhailo…
How the NKVD executed proletarian writer Maik Yohansen for spreading “bourgeois-nationalist sentiment”
Yohansen was an active member of Hart, an association of proletarian writers founded in Kharkiv in January 1923…
Myroslav Irchan. He returned to Ukraine from Canada, only to be executed by the NKVD
Myroslav Irchan’s real name was Andriy Babiuk. He was born into a poor peasant family in the village…
Slovo House — how a special Soviet apartment block for writers became their prison
At the end of the 1920s, a unique house in the shape of a letter C was built…
Was Holodomor a genocide? Examining the arguments
Today it’s hardly doubted that at least 3.3 millions of people according to the estimation of the historian…
A taste of Ukraine’s poetic Renaissance executed by Stalin
By Stephen Komarnyckyj, Photos and videos by maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com British translator and poet Stephen Komarnyckyj has agreed to give…
Poetry on fire: a personal journey through Ukraine’s Executed Renaissance
The girl whose gold shoes glittered with paste diamonds stood in the aisle of the plane, her arms…
Ukrainian translations, Russian oppression, and soft power
I traveled across Ukraine by train in 1993 and spent hours staring mesmerized at the seemingly endless pastures…
Ukraine’s Executed Renaissance and a kickstarter for one of its modern successors
In the 1960s, the poet Vasyl Symonenko was walking in Bykivnia forest near Kyiv when he saw some…