Items tagged with: Soviet Union

The Kremlin obsession with phantom fascists reflects modern Russia’s failure to create a coherent post-Soviet identity

Russia’s imperial ambitions came undone because Vladimir Putin fatally underestimated the strength of Ukrainian national spirit

Blockbuster movie about 1930s Ukrainian famine draws mixed reviews but succeeds in raising international awareness of often overlooked Stalin-era genocide

The Kremlin relies on force because it has no answer to the historic rejection of Russia that began with the fall of the Soviet Union

Canadian academic Subtelny provided millions of post-Soviet Ukrainians with access to the formerly supressed Ukrainian national story and helped lay the foundations for the nation’s growing sense of national identity

Placing Hitler and Stalin in a single narrative: why Ukraine’s unique totalitarian trauma offers the key to conquering demons of a tragic past

Leading Ukraine experts discuss new Ukrainian laws designed to distance country from totalitarian Soviet past