The Spark of Revolution: A Historian’s Final Journey On the cold morning of February 20, 2014, Bohdan Solchanyk stepped off […]
The Fall of an Empire: Gorbachev’s Resignation and the Birth of the CIS The resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev on December […]
The Twilight of the Brezhnev Era On November 15, 1982, citizens across the Soviet Union gathered around their television screens […]
A Seat at the Table Among Ruins When Ukraine became a founding member of the United Nations in April 1945 […]
The Fall and Rise of a Ukrainian Capital On November 6, 1943, Soviet forces recaptured Kiev from retreating German troops. […]
The Rise of Stalin’s Absolute Power On December 21, 1929, the Soviet Union celebrated Joseph Stalin’s 50th birthday with unprecedented […]
A Nation Divided: Ukraine’s Post-WWI Territorial Fragmentation In the turbulent interwar period between 1918 and 1939, Ukraine emerged as Europe’s […]
A Winter Day in Kyiv: The Promise of Unity On January 22, 1919, Kyiv awoke to a crisp, frosty morning—a […]
The Gathering Storm: Industrialization and Discontent On a frigid Sunday morning in January 1905, nearly 20,000 workers and their families […]
The Welsh Expedition That Changed Ukraine’s Future In 1870, Welsh entrepreneur John James Hughes embarked on an ambitious journey that […]
Two Empires, One Awakening The year 1848 marked a pivotal moment in European history as revolutionary fervor swept across the […]
Echoes of Defiance in National Anthems The opening lines of Ukraine’s national anthem, “Ukraine has not yet perished,” strike a […]
The Geopolitical Landscape of Eastern Europe The final quarter of the 18th century witnessed dramatic shifts in the geopolitical balance […]
The Rise and Fall of the Cossack Hetmanate The mid-17th century marked a turbulent turning point in Ukrainian history, as […]
The Powder Keg of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth In the spring of 1648, the seventh major Cossack rebellion since the late […]
The Fractured Landscape of Ukrainian Christianity Modern perceptions often portray Ukraine as a nation divided between Eastern Orthodox and Western […]
The Shifting Steppe: Ukraine’s Great Frontier Movement Between the 15th and 16th centuries, the Ukrainian steppe underwent a dramatic transformation […]
The Medieval Crossroads of Eastern Europe In the late 14th century, the territories of modern-day Ukraine became a geopolitical prize […]
The Twilight of Kyivan Rus’ The political entity we now call Kyivan Rus’ had no clear birth date, but its […]
From Raiders to Rulers: The Viking Roots of Kievan Rus The earliest records of Rus princes in the Dnieper region […]
The Dawn of the Viking Era in Eastern Europe The turbulent Migration Period in Europe gradually gave way to the […]
The Crucible of Migration: A Eurasian Tapestry The centuries surrounding the turn of the first millennium witnessed Eurasia as a […]
