Ukraine: Russia’s War on Ukraine

Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture. Drawing on work from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and political scientists, the collection represents a truly interdisciplinary approach. Taken together, the groundbreaking scholarship collected in The Burden of the Past provides insight into how memories can be warped and abused, and how this abuse can have lasting effects on a country seeking to create a hopeful future.

This book explores Ukrainian history through the lens of nation building, arguing that Ukraine established a national identity during its time of greatest suffering (the Stalin Period.)

This book examines how national and ethnic identities are being reforged in the post-Soviet borderland states.

With this new edition of Ukraine: A History, Subtelny revises the story up to the spring of 2000. A new chapter focuses on the achievements and failures of the new state and society in international affairs, internal politics, and economic and social development.

The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's complex relations with Russia and the West, the burden of tragedies such as the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and Ukraine's contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Juxtaposing Ukraine's history to the contemporary politics of memory, this volume provides a multidimensional image of a country that continues to make headlines around the world. Eloquent in style and comprehensive in approach, the essays collected here reveal the roots of the ongoing political, cultural, and military conflict in Ukraine, the largest country in Europe.

A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential. While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013-14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices.

[Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute] In light of Russia's assault on Ukraine, this important article transcribes Timothy Snyder's recent talk about Ukraine's history.

[VOX News] Vladimir Putin says Ukraine isn’t a country. Yale historian Timothy Synder explains why he’s wrong.

[CBS News] The attempt to eliminate Ukrainian has been a Russian policy since the 19th century. Here's why.

[Vanderbilt] A short summary of Ukrainian history, containing some information on Ukraine's leadership throughout the 2010s.