Ukrainian history Archives - Euromaidan Press

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Analysis

Why Ukraine can’t just “make peace”: top historian explains what the West gets wrong about peace with Russia

While the West calls for Ukraine’s concessions to Russia, historian Yaroslav Hrytsak warns of what's really at stake a nation’s last chance to break free from centuries of imperial bloodshed.

byBohdan Ben

Pereiaslav Agreements Russian-Ukrainian war USSR Bohdan Khmelnytskyi

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History of Ukraine

Behind Ukraine’s fateful security deal that unleashed centuries of Russian colonial grip

In 1654, a fateful military pact with Moscow betrayed Ukraine's bid for independence. Four centuries later, Putin exploits this same broken pledge to erase it from existence once more.

byOksana Ostapchuk

Maidanet'ske geomagnetic ground plan, Cucuteni-Trypillia culture. Photo via Wikimedia.

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History of Ukraine

Archeological research suggests first cities of humanity were in Ukraine, not in Mesopotamia

Massive planned settlements discovered in Ukraine, dating back to 4000 BCE, are rewriting the history of early urbanization. These sprawling sites are forcing archaeologists to reconsider when, where, and how the first cities emerged.

byBenjamin Looijen

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The 1994 secret operation that saved Crimea, and perhaps Ukraine, from Russian occupation

The untold story of Ukraine's covert operation 30 years ago to halt Russia's attempt to occupy Crimea emerged in recently published documents. The records detail Ukraine's restrained yet decisive actions.

byBohdan Ben

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“Do Svidaniya” to Russo-centrism: Western schools start decolonizing Eastern Europe studies

A Russo-centric approach towards Eastern European and Slavonic studies and related fields has long reigned supreme in Western…

byMartin Fornusek

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Ukraine seeks to reclaim history by reframing Russia as “Moscovia”

On 22 October 1721, Moscow Tsar Peter I renamed the Moscow Tsardom into the Russian Empire. He chose…

byBohdan Ben

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History of Ukraine

“Memory makes us stronger.” Ukraine marks 105th anniversary of symbolic battle against invading Russians

On 29 January 2023, Ukraine commemorates the 105 anniversary of the Battle of Kruty. Ukrainian Commander in Chief…

byBohdan Ben

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Crimea

First English-language course about Crimea dispels Russian imperial narratives on peninsula’s history

Crimea has made important appearances in the broader region throughout history. During Antiquity, Greek colonies appeared…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

The charter issued by Jeremias II, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 1536–1595), confirming the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood's right to run a press and a school. (Credit: EncyclopediaofUkraine.com)

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Ancient Ukrainian church brotherhoods as forerunner of nation’s civil society today, Horyevoy says

Many are investigating why civil societies have emerged in some countries but not in others; but their research,…

byPaul A. Goble

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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 6)

Hundreds of thousands of families lost their means of subsistence. They were scattered across the Soviet country: some…

byRadio Liberty

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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 5)

In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…

byRadio Liberty

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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 4)

In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…

byRadio Liberty

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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 3)

In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…

byRadio Liberty

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Mass grave of UPA soldiers unearthed in Lviv Oblast

On Wednesday, October 6, Sviatoslav Sheremeta, head of the Lviv Regional Council municipal enterprise Dolya Memorial Search Centre…

byChristine Chraibi

Yosyf Zissels, a former Soviet political prisoner and co-chairman of the Vaad (Union of Jewish Communities in Ukraine). Image: Apostrophe TV video capture

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Moscow seeks to use Babyn Yar against Ukrainians; Ukrainians want a memorial to the victims

There are two competing projects for a memorial at Babyn Yar [also known as Babi Yar], the site…

byPaul A. Goble

Image of Volodymyr the Great of Kyiv in the 2nd edition of Mykola Arkas's "History of Ukraine-Rus" published in Krakow, 1912.

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Is Volodymyr the Great a prince of Kyivan Rus or Ukraine-Rus?

The auction house Roma Numismatics Limited has listed a silver coin of Grand Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv with…

byRadio Liberty

The Great Embassy of Ivan IV (1530-84) of Muscovy (also known as Ivan the Terrible) to the Holy Roman Emperor at Regensburg in 1576 (Image: colored woodcut, detail, Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France via Wikipedia)

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister reminded his Russian counterpart what Russia was called until the 18th century

“Minister Lavrov got lost in the three pine trees of Russian history. Until the 18th century, his state…

byRadio Liberty

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If anyone wrote Russian history the way Putin writes Ukraine’s, Putin would be outraged, Travin says

The European University specialist says that he will leave to others a critical appraisal of Putin’s words about…

byPaul A. Goble

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Crimea was always a multicultural hodgepodge

Since Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, it has tried to obliterate Crimea’s diverse cultural heritage. But Crimean history…

byOlena Makarenko

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Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 2)

In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and…

byRadio Liberty