Ukraine
(see also Russia: Soviet Regime & Russia since 1990)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Ukraine on the Brink. Israel Shamir, We Hold These Truths (12/04).
What Are We Up to -- in Ukraine?. Pat Buchanan, AntiWar.com (12/6/04).
The Revolution Televised: Western Media's View of Ukraine's Election is Hopelessly Biased. John Lauchland, Guardian (11/27/04).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Laitin, D.D. "Language & nationalism in the post-Soviet republics," Post-Soviet Affairs 12,1 (1996):4-24.
Smith, Benjamin. "Free market misery," In These Times (7/8/02). Miners' sufferings.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Abramson, Henry. A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians & Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1999).
Armstrong, John A. Ukrainian Nationalism [1963] (3rd ed.; Englewood CO: Ukrainian Academic, 1990).
Bilocerkowycz, Jaroslaw. Soviet Ukrainian Dissent: A Study of Political Alienation (Boulder: Westview, 1988).
Birch, Sarah. Elections & Democratization in Ukraine (NY: St. Martin's, 2000).
Bociurkiw, Bohdan R. The Politics of Religion in the Ukraine: The Orthodox Church & the Ukrainian Revolution, 1917-1919 (Washington: Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1985).
Borys, Jurij. The Russian Communist Party & the Sovietization of Ukraine: A Study in the Communist Doctrine of the Self-Determination of Nations (Westport CT: Hyperion, 1981).
Brown, Kate. A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 2004). Impact of Soviet modernization campaigns & Nazi genocide on reshaping of "Ukrainian" identity.
Browne, Michael. Ferment in the Ukraine: Documents by V. Chornovil & Others (NY: Praeger, 1971).
Brym, Robert J. The Jews of Moscow, Kiev & Minsk: Identity, Antisemitism, Emigration (NY: NYU, 1994).
Dawisha, Karen & Bruce Parrot (eds.) Democratic Changes & Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus & Moldova (NY: Cambridge, 1997).
Drohobycky, Maria (ed.) Crimea: Dynamics, Challenges & Prospects (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995).
D'Anieri, Paul J. Politics & Society in Ukraine (Boulder: Westview, 1999).
Dyczok, Marta. Ukraine: Movement without Change, Change Without Movement (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, 2000).
Farmer, Kenneth C. Ukrainian Nationalism in the Post-Stalin Era: Myth, Symbols & Ideology in Soviet Nationalities Policy (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1980).
Finckenauer, James O. & Jennifer L. Schrock (eds.) The Prediction & Control of Organized Crime: The Experience of Post-Soviet Ukraine (New Brunswick NJ: Transaction, 2004).
Jones, Lesya & Bohdan Yasen (trans. & ed.) Dissent in Ukraine: An Underground Journal from Soviet Ukraine (Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1977).
Kubicek, Paul. Unbroken Ties: The State, Interest Associations & Corporatism in Post-Soviet Ukraine (Ann Arbor: U. Michigan, 1999).
Kuzio, Taras. Russia-Crimea-Ukraine: Triangle of Conflict (London: Research Institute for the Study of Conflict & Terrorism, 1994).
__________. Ukraine under Kuchma: Political Reform, Economic Transformation & Security Policy in Independent Ukraine (NY: St. Martin's, 1997).
__________. Ukraine: State & Nation Building (London: Routledge, 1998).
Lewytzkyj, Boris. Politics & Society in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1980 (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1984).
Lippman, Hal & Harry Blair. Democratic Local Governance in Ukraine (Arlington VA: USAID, 1997).
Motyl, Alexander J. The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins & Development of Ukrainian Nationalism, 1919-1929 (Boulder: East European Quarterly, 1980).
__________. Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism (NY: Council on Foreign Relations, 1993).
Nahaylo, Bohdan. The Ukrainian Resurgence (Toronto: U. Toronto, 1999).
Pavlychko, S.D. Letters from Kiev (NY: St. Martin's, 1992).
Reid, Anna. Borderland: A Journey Through the History of the Ukraine (Boulder: Westview, 1999).
Siegelbaum, Lewis H. & Daniel J. Walkowitz (eds.) Workers of the Donbass Speak: Survival & Identity in the New Ukraine, 1989-1992 (Albany: SUNY, 1995).
Simon, Richard E. Labor & Political Transformation in Russia & Ukraine (Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2000).
Solchanyk, Roman (ed.) Ukraine, from Chernobyl to Sovereignty: A Collection of Interviews (NY: St. Martin's, 1992).
Trier, Tom. Inter-Ethnic Relations in Transcarpathian Ukraine (Flensburg: European Center for Minority Issues, 1999).
Wilson, Andrew. Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith (NY: Cambridge, 1997).
__________. The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (New Haven: Yale, 2000).
Wolchik, Sharon L. & Volodymyr Zviglyanich (eds.) Ukraine: The Search for a National Identity (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
Wolf, Charles Jr. (ed.) The Role of the Military Sector in the Economies of Russia & Ukraine (Santa Monica CA: Rand, 1993).
In the Library: Fiction
Andrukhovych, Yuri. Recreations (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1998). Life in the 90s.
Osadchyi, Mykhailo Hryhorovych. Cataract (NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Lifting the Yoke: Ukraine" [1994], by BBC Wales/Primedia, 50m. From Films for the Humanities & Sciences. Church, nationalism & language politics in post-Soviet Ukraine.
"Ukraine: Third Journey to Independence" [1992], by ?, 62m. From Zelen Klen Enterprises.