Research Grants & Endowments: Videos and Transcripts

Editors' Notes

The first two papers in this collection by Dr. Serhii Holovaty and Chrystia Freeland, as well as the one delivered by Dr. Orest Subtelny, are the abridged transcripts of the lectures taken from the video recordings. Other papers are original articles submitted by the lecturers upon their presentations. Therefore, some discrepancy in terminology is observed, i.e., Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak refers to the highest legislative body in Ukraine as "Supreme Rada", while both Serhii Holovaty and Orest Subtelny identify it as "Verkhovna Rada." In order to preserve the authors' original style we have maintained their terminology.

A modified Library of Congress system is used in the present Collection for transliteration of the proper and geographical names from Russian and Ukrainian into English, which omits designating the soft sign with a comma, but still indicates the hard sign as ". However, the names of the well-known personages are represented in their most recognizable spelling.

• Lecture I - Serhii Holovaty (1994)
  Reforming Ukrainian Society: Law and Politics

• Lecture II - Chrystia Freeland (1995)
  The Empire Strikes Back: The Rising Tide of Nationalism in Russia and Its Implications for Ukraine and The West

• Lecture III - Serhii Plokhy (1996)
  The Crimean Dispute:History in Russian-Ukrainian Territorial Claims

• Lecture IV - Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak (1997) 
  Women's Organizations in Independent Ukraine: Prospects of Power

• Lecture V - Orest Subtelny (1998)
  Evaluating Independence: Ukraine Since 1991

• Lecture VI - George G. Grabowicz (1999)
  Problems with the Horizon of Expectations - The Russian Reception of Ukrainian Literature in The First Half of the 19th Century

• Lecture VII - Gerald Janecek (2000)
  The New Russian Avant-Gardes: Postmodern Poetry and Multimedia in the Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Periods

• Lecture VIII - Olenka Pevny (2001)
  Recreating a Monumental Past: Self-Identity and Ukraine's Medieval Monuments

• Lecture IX - Taras Kuzio (2002)
  Ukraine Between Two Elections, 2002-2004

• Lecture X – Denis Hlynka (2003)
  A Day in Hollywood, a Night in Ukraine...With a Stopover in Winnipeg *abstract only

• Lecture XI – Victor Malarek (2004)
  The Natashas – The New Global Sex Trade

• Lecture XII – Marta Dyczok (2005)
  TV and the Orange Revolution: How Television Affected the Ukrainian Election *transcript not available

• Lecture XIII – Andrei Kurkov (2006)
  Worlds Apart? Life and Literature in Today’s Ukraine

• Lecture XIV - Yuri Scherbak (2006)
  Chornobyl's Legacy for the 21st Century

• Lecture XV - Jiri Pehe (2008)
  Prague Spring in Modern Czech History

• Lecture XVI - Roman Serbyn (2008)
  The Holodomor: Reflections on the Ukrainian Genocide

• Lecture XVII - Oksana Zabuzhko (2009) 
  The Death of Don Juan: Modernism, Feminism, Nationalism - Rethinking Ukrainian Literature

• Lecture XVIII - Dr. Jochen Hellbeck (2011) 
  The Faces of Stalingrad: The Last Veterans' Portraits and Voices

• Lecture XIX – Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk (2012)
  Ukrainian Culture Under Stalin

• Lecture XX – Dr. Timothy Snyder (2012) 
  Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin 

• Lecture XXI – Dr. Alexander Motyl (2014)
  Will Ukraine Survive Yanukovych?

• Lecture XXII – Dr Serhii Plokhy (2015)
  The Empire Strikes Back: The Fall of the USSR and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

• Lecture XXIII – Vitaly Portnikov (2016)
  The Emergence of a Contemporary Ukrainian Civil Society

• Lecture XXIV – Dr. Bohdan Krawchenko (2017)
  Global DisOrder and Ukraine

• Lecture XXV – Dr. Andreas Umland (2018)
  Is 'Plural Peace' in Europe Realistic?"​

• Lecture XXVI – Borys Tarasyuk

  The Evolution of Ukrainian Foreign and Domestic Policies

• Lecture XXVII - Lynne Viola 

  ​Inside the Great Terror: The NKVD on Trial in Ukraine, 1938-1943

• Lecture XXVIII - Dr. Sergei Medvedev 

  ​The Return of the Leviathan: Putin's State as the Last Act of the Russian Empire