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Bibliography of Ukrainian history

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This is a select bibliography of English-language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Ukraine. Book entries have references to journal reviews about them when helpful and available. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below. See the bibliography section for several additional book and chapter-length bibliographies from academic publishers and online bibliographies from historical associations and academic institutions.

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Inclusion criteria

Works included below are referenced in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly secondary sources or journals. Included works should: be published by an independent academic or notable non-governmental publisher; be authored by an independent and notable subject matter expert; or have significant independent scholarly journal reviews. Works published by non-academic government entities are excluded.

This bibliography is restricted to history, and specifically excludes items such modern travelogues, guide books, or popular culture.

Citation style

This bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates. References to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to Ukrainian history are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.

If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included.

Regarding book titles and the spelling of Kyiv and Kiev and similar words, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.

General surveys of Ukrainian history

  • Magocsi, P. E., (2010). A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Plokhy, S. (2015). The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. New York: Basic Books.
  • Reid, A. (1999). Borderland. New York: Basic Books.
  • Subtelny, O. (2008). Ukraine: A History (4th ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Szporluk, R. (1982). Ukraine: A Brief History, 2nd ed., Detroit: Ukrainian Festival Committee. LCCN 84-108082
  • Wylegala, A., & Glowacka-Grajper, M. (2019). The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Surveys of Eurasian History

Works listed have substantial material and context on Ukrainian history.

Russia

  • Blum, J. (1971). Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Plokhy, S. (2017). Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation. New York: Basic Books.
  • Thompson, J. M., & Ward, C. J. (2017). Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus’ to the Present (8th edition). London, UK: Routledge.

Ukrainian studies

  • Amar, T. C. (2015). The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Berezhnaya, L. (2015). A View from the Edge: Borderland Studies and Ukraine, 1991-2013. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 34(1/4), 53–78.
  • Bilenky, S. (2018). Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv, 1800-1905 (Illustrated edition). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Budurowycz, B. (1983). Poland and the Ukrainian Problem, 1921-1939. Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne Des Slavistes, 25(4), 473–500.
  • Dabrowski, P. M. (2021). The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Davies, B. (2007). Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500–1700.
  • Kaminski, A. S. (1993). Republic vs. Autocracy Poland-Lithuania and Russia 1686-1697 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Markovits, A. S., & Sysyn, F. E. (Eds.). (1982). Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism: Essays on Austrian Galicia (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Rieber, A. J. (2014). The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Samokhvalov, V. (2018). Fractured Eurasian Borderlands: The Case of Ukraine. In A. Ohanyan (Ed.), Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
  • Snyder, T. (2004). The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • ———. (2010). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books.
  • Staliūnas, D. (2007). Between Russification and Divide and Rule: Russian Nationality Policy in the Western Borderlands in mid-19th Century. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 55(3), 357–373.
  • Staliūnas, D., & Aoshima, Y., (eds.). (2021). The Tsar, the Empire, and the Nation: Dilemmas of Nationalization in Russia's Western Borderlands, 1905–1915. Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Budapest: Central European University Press.
  • Thaden, E. (1984). Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1710-1980, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
  • Ther, P., & Kreutzmüller, C. (2014). The Dark Side of Nation-States: Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe. New York: Berghahn Books.
  • Von, H. & Herbert J. (2011). War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine; 1914–1918. Seattle, WA: University of Washington.

Period histories

Ukraine before the Russian empire

This section includes works on Ukrainian history before the establishment of the Russian Empire.

  • Barford, P. M. (2001). The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe (1st edition). New York: Cornell University Press.
  • Curta, F. (2006). Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Dolukhanov, P. (1996). The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Halperin, C. (2010). National Identity in Premodern Rus'. Russian History, 37(3), 275–294.
  • Pelenski, J. (1979). The Sack of Kiev of 1482 in Contemporary Muscovite Chronicle Writing. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 3/4, 638–649.
  • Pelenski, J. (1983). The Emergence of the Muscovite Claims to the Byzantine-Kievan "Imperial Inheritance". Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 7, 520–531.
  • Plokhy, S. (2010). The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Raffensperger, C. (2016). Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus´ (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Ukraine during the Russian empire

This section includes works on Ukrainian history generally after the establishment of the Russian Empire until the Russian Revolution.

  • Bilenky, S. (2012). Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations. Redwood City: Stanford University Press.
  • Fisher, A. W. (1970). The Russian Annexation of the Crimea, 1772–1783. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Friesen, L. (2009). Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine: Peasants, Nobles, and Colonists, 1774-1905 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Heuman, S. (1998). Kistiakovsky: The Struggle for National and Constitutional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Kappeler, A. (2001). The Russian Empire: A Multiethnic History (A. Clayton, trans.). Harlow: Longman.
  • Kohut, Z. E. (1989). Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy: Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760s–1830s (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • LeDonne, J. P. (1997). The Russian Empire and the World 1700–1917: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • O’Neill, K. (2017). Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Subtelny, O. (1980). Russia and the Ukraine: The Difference That Peter I Made. The Russian Review, 39(1), 1–17.

Ukraine during the Soviet era

This section covers Ukrainian history from 1917–1991.

  • Boriak, H., Graziosi, A., Hajda, L. A., Kessler, G., Maksudov, S., Pianciola, N., & Grabowicz, G. G. (2009). Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and Its Soviet Context (H. Hryn, Ed.; Illustrated edition). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Bruski, J. J., & Bałuk-Ulewiczowa, T. (2016). Between Prometheism and Realpolitik: Poland and Soviet Ukraine, 1921–1926. Krakow, Poland: Jagiellonian University Press.
  • Conquest, R. (1970). The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities. New York: Macmillan.
  • Conquest, R. (2006). The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. London: Pimlico.
  • Hagenloh, P. (2009). Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926–1941. Washington, D.C: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
  • Himka, J.-P. (1992). Western Ukraine between the Wars. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 34(4), 391–412.
  • Khlevniuk, O. (2004). The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
  • Liber, G. (2010). Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Liber, G. (2016). Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Mace, J. E. (1983). Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: National Communism in Soviet Ukraine, 1918-1933 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Martin, T. (1998). The Origins of Soviet Ethnic Cleansing. The Journal of Modern History, 70(4), 813–861.
  • McBride, J. (2016). Peasants into Perpetrators: The OUN-UPA and the Ethnic Cleansing of Volhynia, 1943–1944. Slavic Review, 75(3), 630–654.
  • Naimark, N. M. (2012). Stalin's Genocides. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Pauly, M. (2014). Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923–1934. University of Toronto Press.
  • Snyder, T. (2010). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books.
  • Stachiw, M. (1969). Western Ukraine at the Turning Point of Europe's History 1918–1923. (2 vols.). New York: Shevchenko Scientific Society.
  • Veryha, W. (1984). Famine in Ukraine in 1921–1923 and the Soviet Government's Countermeasures. Nationalities Papers, 12(2), 265–286.
  • Von, H. & Herbert J. (2011). War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine; 1914–1918. Seattle, WA: University of Washington.
  • Wheatcroft, S. (2012). The Soviet Famine of 1946–1947, the Weather and Human Agency in Historical Perspective. Europe-Asia Studies, 64(6), 987–1005.
  • Yekelchyk S. (2015). Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Russian Revolution and Civil War

  • Abramson, H. (1999). A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University.
  • Adams, A. E. (1963). Bolsheviks in the Ukraine: The Second Campaign, 1918–1919. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Applebaum, A. (2017). Chapter 1: The Ukrainian Revolution, 1917. In Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. New York: Doubleday.
  • Baker, M. (1999). Beyond the National: Peasants, Power, and Revolution in Ukraine. Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 24(1), 39–67.
  • Baker, M. R. (2016). Peasants, Power, and Place: Revolution in the Villages of Kharkiv Province, 1914–1921 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Betlii, O. (2019). Revolution through the Lens of Ordinary Life in Kyiv. Slavic Review, 78(4), 935–941.
  • Borys, J. & Armstrong, J. A. (1980). The Sovietization of Ukraine, 1917-1923: The Communist Doctrine and Practice of National Self-Determination. Edmonton, AB: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
  • Bilous, L. (2019). Re-thinking the Revolution in Ukraine: The Jewish Experience, 1917–1921. Slavic Review, 78(4), 949–956.
  • Dornik, W. (Ed.). (2022). The Emergence of Ukraine: Self-Determination, Occupation, and War in Ukraine, 1917-1922. University of Alberta Press.
  • Edelman, R. (1985). Rural Proletarians and Peasant Disturbances: The Right Bank Ukraine in the Revolution of 1905. The Journal of Modern History, 57(2), 248–277.
  • Fowler, M. C. (2019). Introduction: Ukraine in Revolution, 1917–1922. Slavic Review, 78(4), 931–934.
  • Fowler, M. C. (2019). The Geography of Revolutionary Art. Slavic Review, 78(4), 957–964.
  • Guthier, S. (1979). The Popular Base of Ukrainian Nationalism in 1917. Slavic Review, 38(1), 30–47.
  • Hunczak, T. (1977). The Ukraine 1917–1921: A Study in Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Kenez, P. (1971, 1977). Civil war in South Russia (2 vols.). Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Kuchabsʹkyĭ, V. & Fagan, G. (2009). Western Ukraine in Conflict with Poland and Bolshevism, 1918–1923. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
  • Malle, S. (2009). The Economic Organization of War Communism 1918-1921 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Procyk, A. (1995). Russian Nationalism and Ukraine: The Nationality Policy of the Volunteer Army during the Civil War. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
  • Reshetar, J. S. (1952). The Ukrainian Revolution, 1917–1920, A Study in Nationalism. Princeton: NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Skirda, A. (2004). Nestor Makhno, Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917–1921. Edinburgh: AK Press.
  • Velychenko, S. (2010). State Building in Revolutionary Ukraine: A Comparative Study of Government and Bureaucrats, 1917–22. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Von, H. & Hunczak, T. (1977). The Ukraine, 1917-1921: A Study in Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Yekelchyk, S. (2019). The Ukrainian Meanings of 1918 and 1919. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 36(1/2), 73–86.
  • Yekelchyk, S. (2019). Searching for the Ukrainian Revolution. Slavic Review, 78(4), 942–948.

World War II and the Holocaust in Ukraine

Works listed here should have substantial information about events in Ukraine or relating to Ukrainians, not general works on World War II or the Holocaust.

Holocaust
Military history
  • Buttar, P. (2018). On a Knife's Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942-March 1943. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
  • ————. (2019). Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
  • ————. (2020). The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
  • Stahel, D. (2012). Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Independent Ukraine

This section covers Ukrainian history from 1991—present.

  • Aslund, A., & McFaul, M. (2006). Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough. New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • Birch, S. (2000). Elections and Democratization in Ukraine. New York: Macmillan.
  • Ivan Katchanovski, Fukuyama, F., & Umland, A. (2014). Cleft Countries—Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova. Germany: Stuttgart Ibidem.
  • Kuzio, T. (2015). Contemporary Ukraine: Dynamics of Post-Soviet Transformation. London: Routledge.
  • Kuzio, T. (2016). Ukraine State and Nation Building. London Routledge.

The Russo-Ukraine war

This section primarily covers the period from 2014–present.

  • Brands, H. (Ed.). (2024). War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Clark, E., & Vovk, D. (Eds.). (2020). Religion During the Russian Ukrainian Conflict. New York: Routledge.
  • D'Anieri, P. (2019). Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Galeotti, M. (2019). The Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine. Osprey. (Osprey Elite Series).
  • Grigas, A. (2016). Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Hansen, A., Rogatchevski, A., Steinholt, Y., & Wickström, D. (2019). A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag; distributed by Columbia University Press.
  • Menon, R., Rumer, E. B., & Chasman, D. (2015). Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post–Cold War Order. MIT Press.
  • Plokhy, S. (2023) The Russo-Ukrainian War: The End of History. W. W. Norton.
  • Plokhy, S. (2023) The Russo-Ukrainian War: The End of History. W. W. Norton.
  • Wood, E., Pomeranz, W., Merry, E. W., & Trudolyubov, M. (2015). Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine. New York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Columbia University Press.

Regional studies

Black Sea

  • Under construction

Crimea

  • Başer, A. (2019). Conflicting Legitimacies in the Triangle of the Noghay Hordes, Crimean Khanate, and Ottoman Empire. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 36(1/2), 105–122.
  • Figes, O. (2010). Crimea. London: Metropolitan Books.
  • Fisher, A. W. (1970). The Russian Annexation of the Crimea 1772–1783. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Klein, D. (2012). The Crimean Khanate between East and West. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
  • Kolodziejczyk, D. (2011). The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania (Annotated edition). Lieden: Brill Publishers.
  • Mosse, W. E. (1963). The Rise and Fall of the Crimean System 1855–71: The Story of a Peace Settlement. New York: Macmillan.
  • O’Neill, K. (2017). Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Sasse, G. (2007). The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Donbas

  • Under construction

Topical histories

Arts and culture

  • Blacker, U. (2022). Managing the Arts in Soviet Ukraine. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 23(2), 389-399.
  • Czaplicka, J. (Ed.). (2005). Lviv: A City in the Crosscurrents of Culture (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Grabowicz, G. G. (1981). Toward a History of Ukrainian Literature (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Ilnytzkyj, O. S. (1998). Ukrainian Futurism, 1914–1930: A Historical and Critical Study (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Makaryk, I., & Tkacz, V. (2015). Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Martynowych, O. T. (2014). The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause: Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
  • Natan M. M. (2006). Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians in Kiev: Intergroup Relations in Late Imperial Associational Life. Slavic Review, 65(3), 475–501.
  • Shkandrij, M. (2001). Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press.

Customs, traditions, and folklore

  • Martynowych, O. T. (2014). The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause: Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.

Chernobyl

Cossacks

  • O'Rourke, S. (2008). The Cossacks. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Economics

  • Koropeckyj, I. S. (Ed.). (1991). Ukrainian Economic History: Interpretive Essays (Illustrated edition) (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Famine

  • Andriewsky, O. (2015). "Towards a Decanted History: The Study of the Holodomor and Ukrainian Historiography". East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2(1).
  • Applebaum, A. (2017). Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. New York: Doubleday.
  • Bertelsen, O. (2017). Starvation and Violence amid the Soviet Politics of Silence, 1928–1929. Genocide Studies International, 11(1), 38–67.
  • Bertelsen, O. (2018). “Hyphenated” Identities during the Holodomor: Women and Cannibalism. In E. Bemporad & J. W. Warren (Eds.), Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators (pp. 77–96). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Bojko D. et al. (2009) Holodomor : the Great Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933. Institute of National Remembrance, Commission of the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation
  • Boriak, H., Graziosi, A., Hajda, L. A., Kessler, G., Maksudov, S., Pianciola, N., & Grabowicz, G. G. (2009). Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and Its Soviet Context (H. Hryn, Ed.; Illustrated edition). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Cairns, A. (1989). The Soviet Famine, 1932-33: An Eye-witness Account of Conditions in the Spring and Summer of 1932.
  • Czech, M., & Hnatiuk, O. (2021). Reactions to the 1932–33 Holodomor by Ukrainians in interwar Europe: new discoveries and sources. Ukraina Moderna, 30–31, 325–343.
  • Dalrymple, D. G. (1964). The Soviet famine of 1932–1934. Soviet Studies, 15(3), 250–284.
  • Davies, R. W., & Wheatcroft, S. G. (2009). The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933. London: Macmillan.
  • Dewhirst, M. (1990). The Foreign Office and the famine: British documents on Ukraine and the Great Famine of 1932–1933. International Affairs, 66(1), 171–172.
  • Dolot, M. (1990). Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust. New York: W.W. Norton.
  • Ellman, M. (2007). Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932-33 Revisited. Europe-Asia Studies, 59(4), 663–693.
  • Gamache, R. (2020). Contextualizing FDR’s Campaign to Recognize the Soviet Union, 1932–1933: Propaganda, Famine Denial, and Ukrainian Resistance. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 37(3/4), 287–322.
  • Grynevych, L. (2008). "The Present State of Ukrainian Historiography on the Holodomor and Prospects for Its Development". The Harriman Review, 16(2), 10–20.
  • Hryshko, V.I. (1983). The Ukrainian Holocaust of 1933
  • Kardash, P. (2007). Genocide in Ukraine
  • Katchanovski, I. (2010). The Politics of Soviet and Nazi Genocides in Orange Ukraine. Europe-Asia Studies', 62(6), 973–997.
  • Kulchytsky, S. (2018). The famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: An anatomy of the Holodomor.
  • Kusnierz R., (2008). The Impact of the Great Famine on Ukrainian Cities: Evidence from the Polish Archives.
  • Kuromiya H., (2021). The Holodomor in the Light of Japanese Documents
  • Kurt I. (Dr.), (1933). Hungerpredigt. Deutsche Notbriefe aus der Sowjet-Union.
  • Klid, B., & Motyl, A. J. (Eds.). (2012). The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
  • Luckyj, G. S. N. (1987). Keeping a record : literary purges in Soviet Ukraine (1930s), a bio-bibliography
  • Makuch, A., Sysyn, F. (Eds.), Sysyn, F. (2015). Contextualizing the Holodomor: The impact of thirty years of Ukrainian famine studies. Edmonton & Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
  • Melnyczuk, L. (2012). Silent memories, traumatic lives: Ukrainian Migrant Refugees in Western Australia.
  • Naimark, N. M. (2012). Stalin's Genocides. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • (2004). Vernichtung durch Hunger: Der Holodomor in der Ukraine und der UdSSR (Extermination by hunger: the Holodomor in Ukraine and the USSR), special issue on the Holodomor of Osteuropa (Stuttgart), 54(12).
  • Serbyn, R., & Krawchenko, B. (1986). Famine in Ukraine, 1932-1933. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies University of Alberta.
  • Solovei D., Shumeyko S., (1953). The Golgotha of Ukraine. Eye-witness accounts of the famine in Ukraine instigated and fostered by the Kremlin in an attempt to quell Ukrainian resistance to Soviet Russian
  • Plyushch, V. (1973) Genocide of the Ukrainian People. The Artificial Fomilne ln the Year 1932-1933.


Language

Gender and family

Sexual orientation

  • Under construction

Human rights

  • Under construction

Nationalism

Nuclear disarmament

  • Kostenko, Y., & D’Anieri, P. (2021). Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History (S. Krasynska, L. Wolanskyj, & O. Jennings, Trans.). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Orange Revolution

  • Under construction

Religion and philosophy

  • Bartal, I., & Polonsky, A. (Eds.). (1999). Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 12: Focusing on Galicia: Jews, Poles and Ukrainians 1772-1918. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
  • Clucas, L. (Ed.). (1988). The Byzantine Legacy in Eastern Europe Boulder, CO: East European Monographs.
  • Frick, D. (1995). Meletij Smotryc’kyj. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Kivelson, V. A., & Worobec, C. D. (Eds.). (2020). Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900: A Sourcebook (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Gudziak, B. A. (2001). Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Kulik, A. (2023). Jews in Old Rus´: A Documentary History (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Shepard, J. (2017). The Expansion of Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Worobec, C. D. (1995). Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Prerevolutionary Russian and Ukrainian Villages. The Russian Review, 54(2), 165–187.

Rural and agricultural history

  • Friesen, L. (2009). Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine: Peasants, Nobles, and Colonists, 1774-1905 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Urban and industrial history

Biographies

  • Erlacher, T. (2021). Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Frick, D. (1995). Meletij Smotryc’kyj. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Sysyn, F. (1985). Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Works below should strictly follow the guidelines for this bibliography. To avoid abuse, works here should have independent English language academic reviews or reviews by major English language publications (e.g. New York Times, The Atlantic).

  • Under construction

Works by Volodymyr Zelenskyy

  • War Speeches, Volodymyr Zelensky (7 book series), lmverlag Berlin.
    • War Speeches I: February-March 2022
    • War Speeches II: April 2022
    • War Speeches III: May 2022
    • War Speeches IV: June, 2022
    • War Speeches V : July, 2022
    • War Speeches VI: August 2022
    • War Speeches VII: September 2022

Historiography, identity, and memory studies

Historiography

  • Jilge, W. (2006). The Politics of History and the Second World War in Post-Communist Ukraine (1986/1991-2004/2005). Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 54(1), 50–81.
  • Kappeler, A. (2017). Ungleiche Brüder: Russen und Ukrainer vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. [Unequal Brothers: Russians and Ukrainians from the Middle Ages to the Present]. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck.[1][2] ISBN 978-3406714108.
  • Kasianov, G., Ther, P. (Eds.). (2009). A Laboratory of Transnational History: Ukraine and Recent Ukrainian Historiography. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press. ISBN 978-963-9776-26-5.
  • Kasianov, G., Tolochko, O., & Olynyk, M. D. (2015). National Histories and Contemporary Historiography: The Challenges and Risks of Writing a New History of Ukraine. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 34(1/4), 79–104.
  • Miller, D. (1986). The Kievan Principality in the Century before the Mongol Invasion: An Inquiry into Recent Research and Interpretation. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 10(1/2), 215–240.
  • Plokhy, S. (2021). "Quo Vadis Ukrainian History?" The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Plokhy, S. (Ed.). (2016). The Future of the Past: New Perspectives on Ukrainian History. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9781932650167.
  • Rudnytsky, I. (1963). "The Role of the Ukraine in Modern History". Slavic Review, 22(2), 199–216. doi:10.2307/3000671.
  • von Hagen, M. (1995). "Does Ukraine Have a History". Slavic Review, 54(3), 658–673. doi:10.2307/2501741.
  • Vushko, I. (2015). Empire, Nation, and In-Between: Ukrainian Historiography. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 34(1/4), 297–311.
  • Wolff, L. (2006). Revising Eastern Europe: Memory and the Nation in Recent Historiography. The Journal of Modern History, 78(1), 93–118.

Identity

Memory studies

Other works

Journalism

  • Aseyev, S. (2022). In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas. Harvard library of Ukrainian literature.
  • Miller, C. (2023). The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine. Bloomsbury.
  • Zhadan, S. (2023). Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front. Yale University Press.
  • Kurkov, A. (2014). Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev. Harvill Press.

Reference works

Early Slavs

  • Kievan Rus. (2016). Encyclopedia Britannica.
  • Auty, R., Obelensky, D., et al. (2010). Companion to Russian Studies (Vol. 1, An Introduction to Russian History; Vol.2, Russian Language and Literature; Vol. 3, An Introduction to Russian Art and Architecture). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Barnes, I., & Lieven, D. (2015). Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russia (Illustrated edition). Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
  • Brown, A. et al. (1982). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Channon, J., & Hudson, R. (1995). The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia. New York: Penguin.
  • Gilbert, M. (2007). The Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th edition). London: Routledge.
  • Ivan Katchanovski, Kohut, Z. E., Nebesio, B. Y., & Yurkevich, M. (2013). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. (Second edition). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
  • Langer, L. N. (2001). Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press.
  • Lerski, H. (1996). Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
  • Magocsi, P. R. (2017). Carpathian Rus': A Historical Atlas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Millar, J. R. (Ed.). (2004). Encyclopedia of Russian History (4 vols.). New York: Macmillan Library Reference.

Ukraine

English language translations of primary sources

  • Heifetz, E. (1921). The Slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919. Text

Works by Volodymyr Zelenskyy

  • War Speeches, Volodymyr Zelensky (7 book series), lmverlag Berlin.
    • War Speeches I: February-March 2022
    • War Speeches II: April 2022
    • War Speeches III: May 2022
    • War Speeches IV: June, 2022
    • War Speeches V : July, 2022
    • War Speeches VI: August 2022
    • War Speeches VII: September 2022

Academic journals

The list below contains journals referenced in this bibliography and which have substantial contributions about Slavic and Russian history.

Bibliographies

Books

Below are recent works from mainstream and academic publishers which contain bibliographies of Ukrainian history.

  • Further Reading appendix in Plokhy, S. (2015). The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. New York: Basic Books.

Online

Below are online bibliographies of Ukrainian history from historical associations and academic institutions.

Primary sources

See also

References

Notes

Citations

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