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An Introduction to Ukrainian Studies:
Selected Readings for Novices

History of Ukraine
 

  1. Olexandr Palii: A History of Ukraine: A Short Course. Ababahalamaha, 2021.

  2. Ukraine in Histories and Stories. Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals. URL: https://ukraineworld.org/articles/books/essays-intellectuals

  3. Serhii Plokhy. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. Penguin, 2016.

  4. Timothy Snyder. Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. Basic

  5. Ann Applbaum. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. Doubleday, 2017.

  6. Marci Shore. The Ukrainian Night. An Intimate History of Revolution. Yale University Press, 2018.

  7. Laada Bilniuk. Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Corrections in Ukraine. Cornell University Press, 2006.

  8. UkraÑ—ner. Country from the Inside. VSL, 2019.

  9. Palko O. Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin. Bloomsburry Academic, 2020.

Serhii Plokhy. The Russo-Ukrainian War. The Return of History. Norton&C0, 2023.

​Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
 

  1. Serhiy Zhadan. Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front.

  2. Serhiy Zhadan. What we live for, what we die for: Selected poems.

  3. Wards for War: New Poems from Ukraine (Ed. by O. Maksymchul & M.Rosochinsky). https://www.wordsforwar.com

  4. Oksana Zabuzhko. Museum of Abandoned Secrets.

  5. Andrey Kurkov. Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kyiv.

  6. Oleg Sentsov. Live went on Anyway.

  7. Maria Matios. Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages.

  8. Yuri Andrukhovych. Perverzion.

  9. Taras Prokhasko, Unsimple.

 The White Chalk of Days: the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Ontology. 

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Classical Ukrainian Literature
 

  1. Taras Shevchenko. Kobzar.

  2. Lesya Ukrainka. The Forest Song. + Poetry.

  3. Ivan Kotliarevsky. Eneida.

Hryhorii Skovoroda. Fables and Aphorisms.

  1. Ivan Bahryanyi. Tiger Trappers.

  2. Ivan Franko. Stories.

  3. Mykhailo Kotsiubynski. Shadow of the Forgotten Ancestors.

  4. Mykola Khvylovy. I (Romance).

  5. Vasyl Stefanyl. The Stone Cross.

  6. Valerian Pidmihylny. The City.

  7. About: Dmytro Cyzhevsky. A History of Ukrainian Literature from 11th till 19th century.

 

Internet Sources
 

  1. Diasporiana.org – e-library for Ukrainian books

  2. https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/ - Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine.

  3. Ukraineworld.org – multimedia project from and about Ukraine (interview, news, podcasts, chronicles etc.)

  4. https://ukrainer.net/ukrayiner-the-movie-en/ Ukrainer: The Movie.

  5. http://sites.utoronto.ca/elul/ Electoric Library of Ukrainian Literature

  6. Timothy Snyder. The Making of Modern Ukraine. YaleCourses (Lectures). https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz_1Mx1MaO6sw_

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Composed by: Nikolaos Lavidas & Olga Rychagivska

Edited by: Sophia Chionidi

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