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States, Peoples, Languages: A Comparative Political History of Ukrainian, 1863-2013 (audio recording)
Day 1: Wednesday, June 11 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Registration 2:00 – 2:15 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks Serhii Plokhii Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Andrea Graziosi National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research...
Serhii Plokhy’s Latest Book "The Last Empire. The Final Days Of The Soviet Union"
The breakup of the Soviet Union, the country that for decades was one of the key players in the world arena, today continues to fascinate, puzzle and provoke sharp debates among scholars, politicians and readers, interested in world history. The...
"The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict" Now Published in Paperback
The incorporation of Crimea into the Russian Federation in March 2014, masterminded by Moscow in the aftermath of three months of protests in Ukraine, and the ouster of President Yanukovych and the establishment of an interim government in Kyiv give the...
The 2014 Petryshyn Memorial Lecture in Ukrainian Studies (audio recording)
April 14, 2014. Harvard University. A Russian Woman and the Ukrainian Movement: The Journey of Aleksandra and Petro Yefymenko Andreas Kappeler, Professor of East European History, Emeritus, University of Vienna
Crisis in Crimea: Historical and Modern Perspectives (audio recording)
March 13, 2014. Harvard University. Special Event Co-Sponsored with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Crisis in Crimea: Historical and Modern Perspectives Lubomyr Hajda, Associate Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Terry Martin...
An Appeal of the Ukrainian Scholars to the International Scholarly Community
A democratic civic revolution won in Ukraine. The criminal regime of President Yanukovych, who created a total system of violence and corruption for his own benefit, was toppled. Alas, over a hundred Ukrainian protesters paid for this with their lives...
The ‘Crimea Question’ Anew
There is a sense of déja vu surrounding the present separatist crisis in Crimea, for there was a vibrant Russian secessionist movement in the region in the early 1990s. Crimea was then an important case in the former Soviet Union where war was widely...
An Appeal of the Polish Scholars in Support of Ukraine
Wrocław, 1 marca 2014 roku Szanowni Państwo! Jako przedstawicielka polskiego ukrainistycznego środowiska naukowego, w odpowiedzi na apel ukraińskich naukowców, skierowany do światowej wspólnoty naukowej, zwracam się z gorącą prośbą do całej polskiej...
A Roundtable Discussion: Why is Kyiv Burning? (audio recording)
Why is Kyiv Burning? The Turn to Violence in Ukraine’s Protest Movement and Its Political and Geostrategic Implications Timothy J. Colton, Department of Government; Jarek Domanski, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; George G. Grabowicz...
A Roundtable Discussion: Why is Kyiv Burning?
February 24, 2014. Harvard University. Why is Kyiv Burning? The Turn to Violence in Ukraine’s Protest Movement and Its Political and Geostrategic Implications Timothy J. Colton, Department of Government; Jarek Domanski, Weatherhead Center for...
A Leading Ukrainian Journalist Visits HURI
On January 25–29, HURI hosted Serhiy Leshchenko, one of today’s most celebrated Ukrainian investigative journalists and a deputy editor-in-chief of Ukraїns´ka Pravda, a leading online publication in Ukraine. Mr. Leshchenko helped to launch the Ukrainian...
What Do the Ukrainians Want? by Serhii Plokhii
For a third month now, tens of thousands of Ukrainians are continuing to demonstrate on the frozen streets of Kyiv, hoping that their voices will be heard by their own government and by governments and political leaders around the world. Many of them are...
