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Allan Armstrong

Cancel culture vs. execute culture: Why Russian manuscripts don’t burn, but Ukrainian manuscripts burn all too well

Amelina Victoria

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is a Colonial War

Amy Goodman, Timothy Snyder, Nermeen Shaikh

Putin’s Russia and Peripheral Imperialism

Anatoly Kropivnitskyi

Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion

Andreu Movtxan

Who Invented “Historical Russia” and Why?

Andrey Oleynikov

‘Nazi satanists are entrenched in the holy Russian city of Kyiv’

Andrey Pertsev

Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion

Andriy Movchan

Forbidden Words, Changed Surnames - On the Political Nature of Language

Anna Siedykh

Pro-Russian network behind the anti-Ukrainian defamation campaign

Anton Shekhovtsov

Ukraine: Anna Kuliscioff: The Extraordinary Life of a European Socialist

Author: Anatolii Dubovyk; Translation from Ukrainian: Pavlo Shopin; Cover: Kateryna Gritseva

Russia and South Africa: the oppressors make a deal

Bob Myers

Why the cult of Stepan Bandera should be buried

Boris Oglavenko, Dmitro Mrychnyk

How Western scholars overlooked Russian imperialism

Botakoz Kassymbekova

How Western scholars overlooked Russian imperialism

Botakoz Kassymbekova

Europe’s last empire: Putin’s Ukraine war exposes Russia’s imperial identity

Botakoz Kassymbekova

The War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Book

Carl Mirra

Dangerous liaisons: New details of Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka’s espionage for Russia

Christo Grozev,Michael Weiss,Inga Spriņģe

Ukraine’s history of struggle

Christopher Ford

The Great Famine of 1932 – 33 in Soviet Ukraine: Causes and Consequences

Christopher Ford Bohdan Krawchenko

Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity

Conor Kostick Donnacha Ó Bríain Halyna Herasym Nóirín Greene

Ireland and Ukraine’s Struggle for Independence 1916 – 23

Conor Kostick Vladyslav Starodubtsev

The Kremlin line on the Ukraine war

Dale Street

On the Anniversary of Russia’s War on Ukraine: Analyzing the Roots of Russian Imperialism

Dan La Botz

Questions about Ukraine

Daria Saburova

Ukraine: We must take an interest in the complex reality of Ukrainian society

Daria Saburova, Interview by Pauline Migevant

“If we didn’t join the armed forces, the left in Ukraine would cease to exist,” says Taras Bilous

DAVYDENKO Polyna, DOBEŠ Lukáš, Translation from Czech: Adam Novak

Our friend and comrade Mark Boytsun is gone.

Denis Pilash

Ukraine at the Crossroads: A Left-Wing Perspective on War, Identity, and Europe's Future

Denys Gorbach, Daria Saburova , Clément Petitjean

Marko Bojcun (1951-2023): A life for socialism and Ukraine’s national rights

Dick Nichols

The Ukrainian underground university (1921-1925)

Direct Action

Lesia Ukrainka - Restoring a Ukrainian Icon

Dr Sasha Dovzhyk

Poll: Vast majority of Ukrainians against Russian as official or state language

Elsa Court andThe Kyiv Independent news desk

Self-Organization and the New Left in Ukraine

Emily Channell-Justice

Yuliya Yurchenko: From Ukraine’s independence to Russia’s invasion

Federico Fuentes Yuliya Yurchenko

Nobel Peace Prize winner Alexander Cherkasov: ‘The history of post-Soviet Russia is a chain of wars, crimes and impunity’

Gonzalo Moncloa Allison

Ukraine and Its Language in the Political Imagination of the Russian Nation and Empire

Hanna Perekhoda

Re-examining Lenin’s Writings on the National Question: An Early Marxist Critique from the Imperial Periphery

Hanna Perekhoda

Unraveling Russian State Anxieties

Hanna Perekhoda

How to Understand Russia’s Imperialist Attitude Toward Ukraine

Hanna Perekhoda

Ukraine: Imagine a Country

Hanna Perekhoda

Ukraine: The cities of the Donbass were incubators of loyalty to the Russian and then Soviet imperial project

Hanna Perekhoda Gwendal Piégais

Does Ukraine Need Russian Culture to Win the War Against Russia?

Irina Zherebkina

We Need New Vocabulary. A Conversation with Kateryna Botanova

Ivanna Skyba-Yakubova , Kateryna Botanova

Ukrainians Wha Hae

James Rann

Queer Tolstoy and anti-authoritarian struggle today

Javier Sethness Castro

Artdocfest is a crucial outpost of free expression on Russia’s doorstep

Jeremy Hicks

Unmaking the Ukrainian working class, Part I

Jeremy Morris

Sahra Wagenknecht and her historical revisionism

João Woyzeck (BFS Zürich)

Changing My Mind On Ukraine

John Feffer

Ukraine’s Geopolitical Precarity

John-Paul Himka

Ukrainian Collaboration in the Extermination of the Jews During the Second World War: Sorting Out the Long-Term and Conjunctural Factors

John-Paul Himka

Russification In Soviet Ukraine After Stalin

John-Paul Himka

A Slaughter of Jews in Ukraine

John-Paul Himka

The Ukrainian Nation in the Time of Lenin, Hitler, and Stalin

John-Paul Himka

Is Russia Irredeemable?

John-Paul Himka

Ukraine’s Socialist Heritage

John-Paul Himka

A Brief History of Ukraine

John-Paul Himka

Russia: Igor Girkin/Strelkov: when the radical becomes too radical

Joshua Kroeker

The tragedy of the Ukrainian working class

Karmína

No messing around with nation states

Karmina.sk

West ‘closed door’ on Ukraine after nuclear disarmament, says key negotiator

Kateryna Farbar

Crimea’s Tatars: “They drive us from our homes, just as they did to our grandparents 80 years ago”

Katya Aleksander

Ukrainians Demand Their Place in Art History

Lisa Korneichuk

The Truth About Ukrainian Nationalism and Claims It's Tainted by Nazism

Liza Rozovsky

The annexation of Crimea and the uprising in eastern Ukraine 2014

Martin Fahlgren

Russia’s new history textbooks teach Putin’s alternate reality

Mary Ilyushina

Ukraine myths used to justify Putin’s terror

Michael Karadjis

Lenin on Serbia’s role in World War I: A useful analogy for the current Ukraine war?

Michael Pröbsting

Solidarity with Ukrainian miners on the frontline of democracy in Europe

Mick Antoniw

The Ukrainian Presidential Elections

Oleksandr Kravchuk Taras Bilous

Ilya Repin, Ukrainian painter and the Commune of Paris

Patrick Le Trehondat

Ukrainian art still colonized in Western museums

Patrick Le Tréhondat

1917: the Ukrainian flag flies over the Kremlin

Patrick Le Tréhondat

After the silence, the time of Ukrainian memory

Patrick Le Tréhondat After Silence

Ukraine: Mazepa, a new voice from the left

Patrick Le TréhondatVladyslav StarodubtsevLes Yakovyshyn

Socialist Internationalism and the Ukraine War

Rohini Hensman

The army of marauders: where Russian soldiers’ habit of looting comes from

Roman Ponomarenko

Ukraine makes Lindsey German distort Vietnam war

Sacha Ismail

USA: What are the Lessons of Vietnam for Ukraine Today?

Stephen R. Shalom Dan La Botz

Communists Opposed to National Liberation

Stephen Velychenko

Marko Bojcun (1951-2023), a Ukrainian Marxist

Syllepse

How the Nations of Eastern Europe Tried to Civilize Each Other: A Conversation with Polish Historian Ela Kwiecińska

Taras Bilous, Iaroslav Kovalchuk, Ela Kwiecińska, Translation from Ukrainian: Pavlo Shopin

Ukrainian Travelers of the Past: scientific discoveries and criticism of imperial Russia

Tetyana Savchenko

Seeing Soldiers Work: Ukrainian Cinema and the Future of Labor

Thomas Roberts

Leftists supporting Putin are ‘idiots’, say anarchists from Ukraine

Tom Coburg

"I stand on the side of the oppressed, whoever they are". Interview with the Palestinian-Ukrainian activist Adib Shaheen

Valerii Petrov|Daria Selyshcheva|Adib Shaheen

The Politics of Watching: documentary visions of the Ukrainian East

Victoria Donovan Darya Tsymbalyuk

Holodomor: the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33

Vincent Présumey

Holodomor: the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33

Vincent Présumey

Olena Stepaniv, Ukrainian, the world's first female officer

Vladislav Starodubtsev

Remembrance done wrong. Patriotic narratives, Left-wing history and constructed imageries of Ukrainian national remembrance policies

Vladislav Starodubtsev

Unraveling Bandera. A leftist point of view

Vladyslav Starodoubtsev

The progressive legacy of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1917-1921) - Part 4

Vladyslav Starodoubtsev, Publié par Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Traduction Patrick Le Tréhondat

The People’s Republic of Crimea (1917-1918)

Vladyslav Starodubtsev

Crimean People’s Republic

Vladyslav Starodubtsev

Why Ukrainian revolution matters for the Left and democratic history?

Vladyslav Starodubtsev

Ukrainian Writers and Poets

Vladyslav Starodubtsev

The progressive legacy of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917-1921) - Part 3

Vladyslav Starodubtsev, Published by Friedrich-Ebert- Stiftung

This Moscow military museum blurs history and propaganda. We visited it

Volodya Vagner

Ukraine: Co-operative movement

Vsevolod Holubnychy Illia Vytanovych

Diplomat: Why the Minsk Agreements Failed in Ukraine

Wolfgang Sporrer Alexander Brentler

Without Ukraine, there would have been no victory. What exactly is Russia’s lie regarding World War II?

Yana Prymachenko

The film ‘Pamfir’ on ideology, culture and (de)colonisation

Yuliia Leites

The Conquest of Ukraine and the History of Russian Imperialism

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski

Russian White Guards in the Donbass

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski

Ukraine: The Oligarchic Rebellion In The Donbas

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski

Rest in pieces: Russia is unofficially but systematically dismantling many monuments to Polish, Lithuanian, and Finnish victims of Soviet Terror