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Exploring Ukrainian Holocaust Literature with Hanna Protasova

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Today at 5 PM EDT, Ukrainian literary scholar and journalist Hanna Protasova delivered a lecture on representations of the Holocaust in Ukrainian literature. This talk kicked off the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) evening lecture series, which...

Opening the KGB Archives: Andriy Kohut Tells Ukraine's Story

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Archival documents are a rich source of data for students and scholars conducting original research. For those studying the Soviet period, gaining access to the right information can prove difficult, if not impossible, as access to sensitive collections...

The Man with the Poison Gun: Q&A with Serhii Plokhii

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The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story, Serhii Plokhy’s latest publication, tells the captivating story of Bohdan Stashinsky , a KGB assassin who eventually defected to the West. The product of meticulous archival research, the book sheds new...

Ukraine in the Flames of the 1917 Revolution

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One hundred years ago, a series of upheavals in the Russian Empire ended the rule of the Tsars and ushered in a new era of communism. The Ukrainian People’s Republic, which was declared by the Central Rada in November in response to the Bolshevik coup in...

Ukraine in the Flames: "1917 in Kyiv" by Serhii Plokhii

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Excerpted with permission from The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy. Copyright 2015. Available from Basic Books. The Ukrainian Revolution: 1917 in Kyiv The Romanov dynasty, if not the empire itself, came to an end in early March 1917...

Former HURI Fellow Publishes Study of Soviet Ukrainian Theater

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Mayhill Fowler came to HURI in 2012 as a Mihaychuk Research Fellow, just having defended her PhD dissertation at Princeton University. “HURI was the first place I had to deeply reconsider my dissertation. It was instrumental in reshaping that chaotic...

Chernobyl's Warnings: When Hubris Meets "Atoms for Peace"

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It's been more than three decades since the worst nuclear disaster in history, the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl* Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. The incident unleashed 500 times as much radiation as the bomb used on Hiroshima...