History / Ukrainian History

Drawing on the story of the leader of a small Mennonite community in southern Ukraine, this book explores how colonial subjects were shaped by and helped shape Russian imperial policy.

Exploring Ukraine’s multi-ethnic population, this book presents a critical response to Moscow- and Russo-centric narratives of the Soviet Union.

This book offers a history of Mennonites from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire to the collapse of the USSR.

This powerful graphic novel illustrates the personal text messages and lived experiences of Ukrainians during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red, Stephen Velychenko traces the first expressions of national, anti-colonial Marxism to 1918 and the Russian Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine.

Breaking the Tongue examines the implementation of the Ukrainization of schools and children’s organizations in the 1920s and early 1930s.

This book explores the influence of Young Europe – an international alliance founded by Giuseppe Mazzini in 1834 – on the Polish, Slovak, Czech, and Ukrainian intelligentsia in the first half of the nineteenth century.

This revised and expanded bibliography introduces readers to the vast and illustrious scholarly career of Paul Robert Magocsi, the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.

This book documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789–1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite settlement of Molochna. Cornies’ papers offer a widow onto both the Mennonite world, and onto the Tsarist state’s relationship with minorities of the frontier.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the Ukrainian émigré scholarly life in Czechoslovakia between the world wars.

This book re-examines the history of twentieth-century Lviv by focusing on the city’s main railway terminal. It approaches the terminal as an embodiment of the city’s built environment and a microcosm of society.

This book is a survey of domestic governmental and party printed propaganda in revolutionary Ukraine. It is based on an illustrative sample of leaflets, pamphlets, and cartoons published by different parties and governments between 1917 and 1922.

Borislav Chernev, through an insightful and in-depth analysis of primary sources and archival material, argues that although its duration was short lived, the Brest-Litovsk settlement significantly affected the post-Imperial transformation of East Central Europe.

Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands is the first work to approach the history of Kyiv from an interdisciplinary perspective and showcases Kyiv’s rightful place as a city worthy of attention from historians, urbanists, and literary scholars.

In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume’s contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukraine.

In The Near Abroad, Zbigniew Wojnowski traces how Soviet Ukrainian identities developed in dialogue and confrontation with the USSR’s neighbours in Eastern Europe.