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Life sentence : memoirs of a Ukrainian political prisoner

Danylo Shumuk, a Ukrainian from the Volhynia region, was at one point Amnesty International’s most “senior” prisoner of conscience, having been incarcerated in various prisons and labor camps for almost thirty-seven years. Life Sentence is his…

Tags: 20th century, Amnesty International, Anti-Soviet Agitation, Anti-Soviet Documents, Artificially Imposed Famine, Autobiography, Bandera, Boremshchyna, Canada, Communism, Communist Ideology, Communist Literature, Communist Party of Western Ukraine, Danylo Shumuk, Democracy, Edward Kuznetsov, Enemy of the People, Guerrilla Warfare, Habsburg Empire, Human Rights, Humanism, Incarceration, Intelligentsia, Interwar, Interwar Poland, Ivan Svitlychny, KGB, Khorol, Manuscript, Memoirs, Memoirs of Danylo Shumuk, Mordovian Special-Regime Camp, Nadia Svitlychna, Nationalism, Nazi Occupation of Volhynia, NKVD, Norilsk, Norilsk Camp Strikes, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Polish Government Repression, Polish Prison, Political Prisoners, Poltava. 1933, Pro-Moscow, Propaganda, Reichskommissariat Ukraine, Rural Ukrainians, SALT II Negotiations, Selrob, Sluzhba Bepeky, Soviet Labor Camps, Soviet Occupation of Ukraine, Soviet Partisans, Soviet Repression, Soviet Union, Stalin, Treaty of Riga, Tsarist Restrictions, Ukrainian Cultural Defense, Ukrainian Dissidents, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Ukrainian Nationalist Movement, Ukrainian Resistance, Ukrainian-Polish Conflict, Ukrainian-Polish Relations, Underground Communist Activity, UPA, Volhynia Oblast, War Criminals, Warsaw Pact, Western Ukraine History, World War II

After Vilnius: Which Way for Ukraine?

CIUS seminar audio. On January 30, 2014, Amanda Paul (European Policy Centre, Brussels); Taras Kuzio (Centre for Political and Regional Studies, CIUS, U of A), Bohdan Nahaylo (independent scholar, France), and Olexiy Haran (Kyiv-Mohyla National…

Tags: Amanda Paul, Bohdan Nahaylo, CIUS Seminar, Maidan, Olexiy Haran, Post-1991, Taras Kuzio, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vilnius summit

The impact of the Yalta Agreement of 1945 on East European geopolitics

CIUS seminar audio. On October 7, 2011, Serhii Plokhii (Mykhailo Hrushevsky chair of Ukrainian history at Harvard University) gave a seminar on the impact of the Yalta Agreement of 1945 on East European geopolitics.See more information in the CIUS…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Eastern Europe, Geopolitics, Postwar, Serhii Plokhii, Ukraine, World War II

Moldova and Transnistria: Between Ukraine, Russia, and the EU

CIUS Seminar audio.On December 3, 2009, Eduard Baidaus (Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta), gave a seminar presentation on the topic: “Moldova and Transnistria: Between Ukraine, Russia, and the EU.”Found in CIUS Newsletter…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Eastern Europe, Eduard Baidaus, Europe, European Union, Moldova, Post-1991, Russia, Transnistria, Ukraine

Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe

CIUS seminar audio.On April 22, 2009, Mykola Riabchuk (journalist and independent scholar, Kyiv), presented on the topic: “Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2009

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Eastern Europe, Europe, Geopolitics, Identity, Ideology, Mykola Riabchuk, Nation, Politics, Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian-Russian Relations

Ukrainians in Eastern Europe after World War II

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.Ivan Jaworsky, who is currently completing his M.A. in political science at Carleton University, spoke on "Ukrainians in Eastern Europe after World War II'' on February 26. His talk surveyed the situation of Ukrainian…

Tags: Assimilation, Bukovyna, Carpatho-Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe, Foreign Policy, Galicia, Hutsul, Identity, Ivan Jaworsky, Poland, Romania, Rusyn, Soviet Ukraine, Ukrainian minorities, Ukrainians, World War II, Yugoslavia