Serhy Yekelchyk: 4 books
The Conflict in Ukraine
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
When guns began firing again in Europe, why was it Ukraine that became the battlefield? Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's current crisis can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However this theory only obscures the...
Stalin's Empire of Memory
Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Based on declassified materials from eight Ukrainian and Russian archives, Stalin's Empire of Memory, offers a complex and vivid analysis of the politics of memory under Stalinism. Using the Ukrainian republic as a case study, Serhy Yekelchyk elucidates the intricate interaction between the Kremlin,...
Stalin's Citizens
Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Being a good citizen under Stalin meant taking an active part in political rituals, such as elections, parades, festive meetings, political information sessions, and subscriptions to state bonds. In Stalin's Citizens, Serhy Yekelchyk examines how ordinary citizens came to embrace some parts of this...
Ukraine
Birth of a Modern Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's second-largest country but still an immature state only recently independent,...