War in Ukraine: Resources for Researchers, Teachers and Students
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24th February resources for researchers and students have been gathered on a number of websites and through social media accounts. Our list here is not intended to be exhaustive, but in an effort to avoid duplication, it signposts to significant collections of sources and information that have already been gathered. We have focused on historical perspectives and on materials which might be useful for teachers and students. The list also reflects our own areas of expertise and interest.
This is a work in progress and if there is an important resource or collection that we do not list here, please get in touch with us - tweeting us @peripheralhist is the best way, but you can also email us peripheralhistories@gmail.com
Please see also the Peripheral Histories list of digital sources for historians working on our region.
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Sources of Support
Resources for Refugees (via @DecolonizingE)
What can we do to help? Via @Olga Burlyuk:
Ways to Help: UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Ukrainian Institute London
Ukraine Information & Resources - University of Texas at Austin
Société française pour les études russes et est-européennes en sciences sociales
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Academic Solidarity
Statements from other institutions and organisations have been collated in a twitter thread by @MNeumannUEA
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Cultural Heritage Rescue
Volunteer to Help Save Ukrainian Heritage Online (SUCHO)
Oral History project “The Day We Survived” by the Center for Urban History
Smithsonian: Safeguarding the Cultural and Historical Heritage of Ukraine
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Helpful Twitter Accounts/Threads for Historians
@OKhromeychuk
@dobczansky
@ksvarnon
@JohnVsetecka thread
@MatthewDPauly
@FaithCHillis
@vsdonovan
@steven_seegel
@theodora_dragos collaborative thread
@BlackerUilleam thread on Ukrainian war literature
@Amber_N_Nickell
@CUH_Lviv
@DrO_aorzoff thread
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Teaching Resources
Russian invasion of Ukraine teach-out, Michigan online
Discover Ukraine, online lecture series organised by the BASEES Study Group for Minority History
Early modern resources, Connecting Central European Worlds project
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Resource Guides
Ukraine Research guide, Alla Roylance, Slavic Bibliographer at NYU Library
History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: Digital Resources on Ukraine
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Resource Guide
CEU Press provides free access to ten of its titles on Ukraine
Dr Jazmine Contreras, List of Online Articles on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Historical Perspectives
Christoph Mick, How Moscow has long used the historic Kyivan Rus state to justify expansionism
Olena Palko, Did Lenin and Stalin Create Ukraine
Katya Cengel, The 20th-Century History Behind Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Faith Hillis, Serhii Plokhy, Margarita Balmaceda, Sergey Radchenko, Does Putin’s view of history explain why he invaded Ukraine?
Daria Badior, Why We Need a Post-Colonial Lens to Look at Ukraine and Russia
Kirsty Ironside, The Ruble has plummeted. It’s not the first time
Christian Raffensperger, Medieval Kherson and Ukraine
Matthew Pauly, Kyiv has faced adversity before, and a stronger Ukrainian Identity Grew in Response
Anika Walke, Old and New Faultlines in the Wake of Russia’s Assault on Ukraine
Uilleam Blacker, What Ukrainian Literature Has Always Understood About Russia
Brendan McGeever, Putin's War and Jewish History
War Crimes
Francine Hirsch, Putin’s Memory Laws Set the Stage for His War in Ukraine
Francine Hirsch, How the Soviet Union Helped Establish the Crime of Aggressive War (also available in Ukrainian)
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Displacement
Charlotte Galpin and Sara Jones, Ukraine’s Refugees & Racialised Borders
Jo Laycock, Ukraine: Histories and Boundaries of a Refugee Crisis
Peter Gatrell, Europe, ‘the Dark Continent’, is the Stage for Another Great Migration
War and Displacement in Ukraine, special issue of Europe Asia Studies 72:3 (2020)
Unlikely Refuge, Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe in the Twentieth Century
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Reflections
Natalie Belsky, A World Disappearing Before Our Eyes…
Oleksiy Radynski, The Case Against the Russian Federation
Ervin Malakaj, Historical Injury and Multidirectional Solidarity in a Time of Crisis
Ileana Nachescu, Ukraine Beyond the Post-Soviet
Yuliya Komska, A Stained Glass in Ukraine
Markian Dobczansky, A Love Letter to Kharkhiv, As Russian Troops Advance
Literature and Art
Uilleam Blacker, Ukrainian Tales
Alisa Lozhkina, A Suitcase, a Candle, and a Hammer: Ukrainian Artists Face the Russian Invasion
20 Films to Help Understand What’s Happening in Ukraine, chosen by Dovzhenko National Film Centre, Kyiv
Impacts in Eurasia
Giorgi Lomsadze, Tbilisi’s Russians Watch Their Country’s War with Shame and Worry
Victoria Muradyan, Armenia a Safe Haven for Russians and Ukranians
Robert Crews, Muslims are Fighting on Both Sides in Ukraine
Joshua Kucera, War in Ukraine Spills Over into Rising Karabakh Unrest
Reimagining Soviet Georgia Podcast, Interview with Gerard Toal
Rferl Majlis Podcast, Putin, Ukraine and Why There’s Uneasiness in Central Asia
USC Armenian Studies Podcast, Ukraine, Armenia and the War