How do past revolutions live on institutionally and culturally: in political thought, state institutions, literature traditions, and popular culture? In Ukraine, a country whose culture and institutions were repeatedly transformed through political upheaval, what did these revolutions mean throughout the long 20th century, and how does their legacies matter today?
In collaboration with the Ukrainian History Global Initiative (UHGI), this panel discussion brings together historians Yaroslav Hrytsak and Nataliia Kibita, and literary scholar Tamara Hundorova, to discuss Ukraine’s contested inheritance of radical social change. Situating Ukrainian revolutions in the long twentieth century within broader comparative debates, the discussion treats Ukraine as a starting point for thinking the relationship between modernity, violence, and social transformation—questions that return with urgent force in the context of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.
The panel will be moderated by Taras Fedirko, IWM Senior Research Fellow.
