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#58 The History of Why Wars Happen

21 вересня 1940 радянська влада відкрила Львівський театр опери і балету. Насправді, вперше він запрацював ще у 1900-му, але зачинився через кризу у 1934. Детальніше про цей день слухайте у 
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21 вересня 1940 радянська влада відкрила Львівську оперу | Події з історії

Bukovina, a former borderland of the Habsburg empire now divided between Ukraine and Romania, was a place of mutual observation, competition, and conflict between the different states and governments that laid claim to the territory. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the province experienced repeated regime changes – many of which occurred seemingly overnight.
This talk explores how the shared challenges of governing Bukovina facilitated mutual influences between regimes that otherwise viewed each other as ideological opposites.  
About the Speaker: Cristina Florea is an Assistant Professor in Modern European history at Cornell University, researching and teaching the histories of Eastern and Central Europe and the Soviet Union in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on borderlands, imperial entanglements and competition, and the interplay of nationalisms and empires in the region.

Crossroads of Empire: Culture and Statehood at the Eastern Frontiers of Europe - Cristina Florea

In the flagship episode of the podcast series for the book "Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag" by Oksana Kis, Naina Misra, and Vlad Nekhoroshykh introduce the first chapter: "The Daily Life of Women in the Gulag in Research and Personal Memoirs." They explore the harsh conditions faced by Ukrainian women imprisoned in the Soviet Gulags from the 1930s until the 1950s, and how these women built communities, maintained hope, and preserved their identities despite unimaginable hardship. This episode introduces the challenges they faced, the effort that went into documenting these experiences, and the importance of remembering and honoring their retellings as part of Ukraine’s historical and cultural legacy.

"Survival as Victory" Podcast — Episode 1

Hosts Naina Misra and Vlad Nekhoroshykh delve into Chapter 2 of Survival as Victory, "Living Conditions in the Prisons and Camps in the 1940s and 1950s," examining the harrowing living conditions faced by prisoners of the Soviet Gulags. Through powerful testimonies from survivors and detailed historical analysis, this episode provides insight into the brutal realities of overcrowded barracks, extreme weather, starvation, disease, and forced labor, highlighting the superhuman resilience, resourcefulness, and solidarity that Ukrainian women utilized to survive.

"Survival as Victory" Podcast — Episode 2

In Chapter 5 of Survival as Victory, "Humanity and Femininity in Captivity," the HURI Podcast explores the brutal tactics used in Soviet labor camps and how the Ukrainian women were able to face this ordeal. Prisoners were stripped of their identities, reduced to numbers, and subjected to physical and psychological torture. Despite these inhumane conditions, the women developed a unique sisterhood. After their release, many of these women continued to help each other for decades through the lifelong friendships and support networks they had formed. This chapter showcases the prisoners’ determination to preserve not just their lives, but their humanity.

"Survival as Victory" Podcast — Episode 5

Misra and Nekhoroshykh discuss Chapter 6, "Body, Sexuality, and Love" from Survival as Victory. Despite facing violence, hunger, and a consistent violation of their human rights, women used small acts of self-care and compassion to preserve their dignity and resist oppression within the Gulags. Oksana Kis highlights the complex dynamics of intimacy in the camps, which ranged from exploitation by those in power to genuine relationships of those imprisoned, and shows how love can serve as the ultimate drive to survive. Through survivor testimonies and firsthand accounts, this chapter delineates how pure human connection can arise and provide hope even during the darkest of times. 

"Survival as Victory" Podcast — Episode 6

In the final episode, we dive into Chapter 7: Motherhood Behind Bars. Through heart-wrenching survivor testimonies, Misra and Nekhoroshykh explore how women in the Gulags navigated pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood. Stories of mothers separated from their children, babies lost to orphanages, and the physical and emotional toll of raising children in the camps highlight their experiences of loss and resilience. However, maternal love evolved into a new form of resistance, and Kis reframes survival not just as endurance, but the ability to preserve identity, humanity, and hope. This chapter serves as a tribute to these women’s strength and a reminder of how such struggles are faced even today by mothers living in conflict zones, such as those in modern-day Ukraine. Thank you for joining us on this journey through Survival as Victory, a powerful reminder of how resilience, resistance, and everyday acts of courage shaped women's fight to not only survive, but reclaim their humanity among the harsh conditions of the Soviet Gulags.

"Survival as Victory" Podcast — Episode 7

Timothy Snyder discusses his book, "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin." The discussion was held at The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago on September 26th, 2011 and introduced by Anna M. Mostovych.

About Bloodlands (from bloodlandsbook.com)

Americans call the Second World War "The Good War." But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens — and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.

Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.

Timothy Snyder "Bloodlands" Lecture: Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 9/26/11

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies
Conceptualizing the Holodomor: Ukraine’s Great Famine from Lemkin to Applebaum
Gennadi Pobereƶny, Visiting Professor, Ukrainian Free University; HURI Associate

My presentation is on the conceptual evolution of the notion of the Holodomor from its first public appearance in the early 1960s until present, and on its juxtaposition with another relevant concept of genocide. The latter one was conceived in the mid-1940s by Raphaël Lemkin who referred to what would later become known as the Holodomor as one of his primary cases for conceptualizing genocide. Through the 1960s and 1970s the Ukrainian diaspora in Europe and North America had to effectively drop the genocide discourse in an attempt to convince the world that the Great Famine did indeed take place facing paramount obstacles the vehement Soviet denials and lacking documentary evidence. The late 1980s and 1990s saw the re-emergence of the genocide claims and the re-invigoration of the scholarly pursuit of both subjects in relation to each other, while the 2000s and the 2010s were marked by the extreme politization of the Holodomor-as-genocide discourse, on the one hand, and its increasing adoption by the public and its wider recognition world-wide, on the other. The recent seminal book by Anne Applebaum, who attempted to summarize and contextualize the academic discourse on the Holodomor, just happened to add more oil in the flame of the Holodomor debates.

Gennadi Pobereƶny is an associate at Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, where he was the principal cartographer and chief designer of the Holodomor project for MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine (http://gis.huri.harvard.edu/historical-atlas/the-great-famine.html). He is collaborating on two other famine-related research projects: co-editing a volume of proceedings of a conference contextualizing the Holodomor and also co-authoring a book on the Soviet policies of genocide in Ukraine. Dr. Pobereƶny holds graduate degrees in sustainable systems, geography, political science, and global affairs, and has taught courses on the political and cultural geography of international relations as well as comparative politics of post-communist and post-colonial transitional societies of Eastern Europe. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and is currently a visiting professor of political science at Ukrainian Free University in Munich, Germany.

10-22-2018 Gennadi Poberezny: Conceptualizing the Holodomor

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CREECA’s mission is to support research, teaching, and outreach on Russia, Eastern and Central Europe, and Central Asia.  We approach this three-part mission by promoting faculty research across a range of disciplines; by supporting graduate and undergraduate teaching and training related to the region; and by serving as a community resource through outreach activities targeted to K-12 teachers and students, other institutions of higher education, and the general public. 

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A podcast by historian Ben Baumann that uses history from the formation of the universe to the present, illustrating how our world came to be. The podcast provides brief historical summaries of various subjects and features oral history interviews with guest experts who have lived experiences related to the topics discussed.

"Billions of years led to you."

Founded in June 1973, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) serves as a focal point for graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research in Ukrainian language, literature, and history as well as in anthropology, archaeology, art history, economics, political science, sociology, theology, and other disciplines. 

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