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Decommunization, Memory Laws, and “Builders of Ukraine in the 20Th Century”*
ACTA SLAVICA IAPONICA, TOMUS 39, PP. 1–22 Articles Decommunization, Memory Laws, and “Builders of Ukraine in the 20th Century”* David R. Marples INTRODUCTION This paper provides a critical overview of the Decommunization campaign in Ukraine up to the spring of 2017, which marked two years since the beginning of the program introduced by the four Memory Laws ratified by Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko in May 2015. In reality, the process of removing Soviet statues and memorabilia began well before Euromaidan, especially in Western Ukraine where Lenin monuments and others of the Soviet period were swiftly removed from the late 1980s into the early years of independence.1 But I address the formal campaign headed by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance (hereafter referred to as INR), which began in the spring of 2015. I provide an analysis of the program and its results, the results of opinion polls, some critiques and also the reasons why it remains controversial, particularly outside Ukraine. The particular focus is 20th century “builders of Ukrainian independence” as defined by these laws because this question has solicited the most attention, along with the physical changes that have resulted to the map of Ukraine, mon- uments, and memorials. Decommunization has a wider context than the Mem- ory Laws, including a program of administrative decentralization and a new Education Law, introduced in draft form on September 5 and approved by the president on September 25, 2017, which will gradually render the Ukrainian language as the only language of instruction in schools and higher educational institutions.2 Clearly the decentralization program cannot be fulfilled while a conflict situation remains in the eastern parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. -
Udc 930.85:78(477.83/.86)”18/19” Doi 10.24919/2519-058X.19.233835
Myroslava NOVAKOVYCH, Olha KATRYCH, Jaroslaw CHACINSKI UDC 930.85:78(477.83/.86)”18/19” DOI 10.24919/2519-058X.19.233835 Myroslava NOVAKOVYCH PhD hab. (Art), Associate Professor, Professor of the Departmentof Musical Medieval Studies and Ukrainian Studies.Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, 5 Ostapa Nyzhankivskoho Street, Lviv, Ukraine, postal code 79005 ([email protected]) ORСID: 0000-0002-5750-7940 Scopus-Author ID: 57221085667 Olha KATRYCH PhD (Art), Professor, Academic Secretary of the Academic Council, Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, 5 Ostapa Nyzhankivskoho Street, Lviv, Ukraine, postal code 79005 ([email protected]) ORCID: 0000-0002-2222-1993 Scopus-Author ID: 57221111370 ResearcherID: AAV-6310-2020 Jaroslaw CHACINSKI PhD (Humanities), Assistant Professor, Head of the Department of Music Art, Pomeranian Academy in Slupsk, 27 Partyzanów Street, Slupsk, Poland, postal code 76-200 ([email protected]) ORCID: 0000-0002-3825-8184 Мирослава НОВАКОВИЧ доктор мистецтвознавства, доцент, професор кафедри музичної медієвістики та україністики Львівської національної музичної академії імені Миколи Лисенка, вул. Остапа Нижанківського, 5, м. Львів, Україна, індекс 79005 ([email protected]) Ольга КАТРИЧ кандидат мистецтвознавства, професор, вчений секретар Львівської національної музичної академії імені Миколи Лисенка, вул. Остапа Нижанківського, 5, м. Львів, Україна, індекс 79005 ([email protected]) Ярослав ХАЦІНСЬКИЙ доктор філософії (PhD humanities), доцент,завідувач кафедри музичного мистецтва Поморської академії,вул. Партизанів 27, м. Слупськ, Польща, індекс 76-200 ([email protected]) Bibliographic Description of the Article: Novakovych, M., Katrych, O. & Chacinski, J. (2021). The role of music culture in the processes of the Ukrainian nation formation in Galicia (the second half of the XIXth – the beginning of the XXth century). -
Ukraine's Party System Evolution: 1990-2017
RAZUMKOV CENTRE UKRAINE’S PARTY SYSTEM EVOLUTION: 1990-2017 The publication is supported by the Ukrainian Office of Konrad Adenauer Foundation 2017 UKRAINE`S PARTY SYSTEM EVOLUTION: 1990-2017 / Edited by Yu.Yakymenko. – Kyiv: Razumkov Сentre, 2017. – p.62 This publication presents an abridged version of the Analytical Report by the Razumkov Centre that examines the emergence and further transformation of Ukraine’s party system in 1990-2017. We have examined key drivers of change at each evolution stage, such as legislation on political parties and elections; political regime; most significant societal cleavages, nature and consequences of their influence; analysed current trends in Ukraine’s party system development. The publication will be useful for everyone interested in post-independence nation-building processes in Ukraine, development of political parties and the party system, experience of political transformations in post-Soviet countries. © Razumkov Centre, 2017 © “Zapovit Publishing House”, 2017 UKRAINE’S PARTY SYSTEM EVOLUTION: 1990-2017 olitical parties are an important institution of a democratic society, P which ensures aggregation and articulation of the interests of various social groups. Interaction among parties in their struggle for power and the exercise of political power by them form a party system. The process of party system formation in Ukraine has been going on for more than 25 years. This publication represents a shortened version of the Razumkov Centre’s report, which examines the fundamental stages of the party system formation in 1990-2017, including intra-party processes, institutional legal and socio-political conditions for their activities and inter-party relations.1 1. STUDY METHODOLOGY The Razumkov Centre’s study uses an approach that combines elements of quantitative and qualitative approaches to the analysis of party system dynamics and takes into account changes of the three following components that define party system and/or affect it. -
Culture and Customs of Ukraine Ukraine
Culture and Customs of Ukraine Ukraine. Courtesy of Bookcomp, Inc. Culture and Customs of Ukraine ADRIANA HELBIG, OKSANA BURANBAEVA, AND VANJA MLADINEO Culture and Customs of Europe GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut • London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Helbig, Adriana. Culture and customs of Ukraine / Adriana Helbig, Oksana Buranbaeva and Vanja Mladineo. p. cm. — (Culture and customs of Europe) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–313–34363–6 (alk. paper) 1. Ukraine—Civilization. 2. Ukraine—Social life and customs. I. Buranbaeva, Oksana. II. Mladineo, Vanja. III. Title. IV. Series. DK508.4.H45 2009 947.7—dc22 2008027463 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2009 by Adriana Helbig, Oksana Buranbaeva, and Vanja Mladineo All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2008027463 ISBN: 978–0–313–34363–6 First published in 2009 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.greenwood.com Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The authors dedicate this book to Marijka Stadnycka Helbig and to the memory of Omelan Helbig; to Rimma Buranbaeva, Christoph Merdes, and Ural Buranbaev; to Marko Pećarević. This page intentionally left blank Contents Series Foreword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Chronology xv 1 Context 1 2 Religion 30 3 Language 48 4 Gender 59 5 Education 71 6 Customs, Holidays, and Cuisine 90 7 Media 114 8 Literature 127 viii CONTENTS 9 Music 147 10 Theater and Cinema in the Twentieth Century 162 Glossary 173 Selected Bibliography 177 Index 187 Series Foreword The old world and the New World have maintained a fluid exchange of people, ideas, innovations, and styles. -
Parliamentary Assembly Assemblée Parlementaire
Parliamentary Assembly Assemblée parlementaire Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs Commission du Règlement, des immunités et des affaires institutionnelles Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs Commission du Règlement, des immunités et des affaires institutionnelles AS/Pro (2012) 03 def 24 January 2012 ardoc03_2012 Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs Challenge on procedural grounds of the still unratified credentials of the Ukrainian parliamentary delegation Report presented by Mr Egidijus Vareikis, Chairperson, on behalf of the committee A. Opinion to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly 1 1. On 23 January 2012, the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Ukraine were challenged on procedural grounds, in accordance with Rule 7 of the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure, on the ground that the composition of the delegation did not satisfy the criterion of fair representation of the political parties or groups. 2. At its meeting on 24 January 2012, the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs examined the various objections raised and established that the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly was appointed in compliance with Article 25 of the Statute of the Council of Europe and Rule 6 of the Assembly's Rules of Procedure, as regards the fair representation of political parties and groups in the delegation. 3. Consequently, the Committee concludes that the credentials of the Ukrainian parliamentary delegation should be ratified. 4. However, the Committee notes that the list of members of the Ukrainian delegation as transmitted to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly contains misleading information in particular as regards the political affiliation of three members: Mr Valeriy Pysarenko, representative, and MM Oleksandr Feldman and Volodymyr Pylypenko, substitutes, listed as members of the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc, actually sit in the parliament under other political labels. -
Journal of Ukrainian Studies 20, Nos
Songwriting and Singing: Ukrainian Revolutionary and Not So Revolutionary Activities in the 1860s Bohdan Klid This paper examines the composition and singing of revolutionary popu- list, patriotic, and nationalist songs by Kyiv-based Ukrainophile students and young intellectuals in the early 1860s. The first part discusses the writing of three songs: two by Anatolii Svydnytsky and one by Pavlo Chubynsky. Svydnytsky was a student at the St. Vladimir University in Kyiv (hereafter Kyiv University) during the years 1857-60, after which he left to teach Russian in a Myrhorod county school in Poltava guber- nia.^ Chubynsky was a law student at St. Petersburg University until the spring of 1861, whereupon he returned to his father’s country home near Boryspil, on the road from Kyiv to Pereiaslav, to write his dissertation.^ Both participated in Ukrainophile activities, which included writing for the St. Petersburg-based Ukrainophile journal Osnova, attending meet- ings of the Hromadas—societies of Ukrainian populist intellectuals in St. Petersburg and Kyiv—and participating in Hromada-sponsored activities, such as endeavors related to popular education, including teaching in Sunday schools and distributing Ukrainian-language popular literature to peasants and city youth.^ ^ On Svydnytsky, see M. Ye. Syvachenko, Anatolii Svydnytsky i zarodzhennia sotsi- alnoho romanu v ukrainskii literaturi (Kyiv: Vydavnytstvo Akademii nauk Ukrainskoi RSR, 1962). He is best known as the author of the first realist novel in Ukrainian, Liu- boratski, which he completed in 1862 but was not published until 1886. ^ On Chubynsky, see Dmytro Cherednychenko, Pavlo Chubynsky (Kyiv: Altematyvy, 2005). He is best known as an ethnographer and the de facto head of the Southwestern Section of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society during the years 1873-76. -
The Ukrainian Weekly 2003, No.11
www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE:• Congressional Ukrainian Caucus on proposed radio cuts — page 8. •A prairie church is preserved, and moved — page 13. • The unique artworks of Rem Bahautdyn — page 15. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE KRAINIANNo. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine 20,000T demonstrateU in Kyiv against KuchmaW administration by Roman Woronowycz Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – The four long columns of marchers came from different directions – a strong symbolic gesture of dis- parate political ideologies uniting behind a common cause – before merging on the Khreschatyk and proceeding down Kyiv’s broad, main thoroughfare, past Independence Square, past the Lenin Memorial and on to Shevchenko Park. And it was unity that organizers’ stressed on March 9 as they held the latest in a series of demonstrations across Ukraine in protest against what they describe as the authoritarian rule of the administration of President Leonid Kuchma and alleged criminal acts they associate with his heavy hand. The action came on the 189th anniversary of the birth of Ukraine’s national bard, Taras Shevchenko, and was part of similar protests in Lviv, Kharkiv and Symferopol, all associated with the “Arise, Ukraine” movement. At Shevchenko Park in Kyiv the 20,000 or so demon- strators who had spilled onto the Khreschatyk minutes earlier rallied. They watched the four leading opposition figures – Our Ukraine’s Viktor Yushchenko, Socialist Party leader Oleksander Moroz, Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko and Yulia Tymoshenko of the epony- mous political bloc – lay flowers before the huge monu- ment to the Ukrainian bard and heard them exhort Roman Woronowycz (Continued on page 3) Viktor Yushchenko, flanked by Hennadii Udovenko (left) and Ivan Pliusch, lead Our Ukraine protesters. -
Ukraine and Russia People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives
EDITED BY i AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA & RICHARD SAKWA Ukraine and Russia People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives This e-book is provided without charge via free download by E-International Relations (www.E-IR.info). It is not permitted to be sold in electronic format under any circumstances. If you enjoy our free e-books, please consider leaving a small donation to allow us to continue investing in open access publications: http://www.e-ir.info/about/donate/ i Ukraine and Russia People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives EDITED BY AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA & RICHARD SAKWA ii E-International Relations www.E-IR.info Bristol, England First published 2015 New version 2016 ISBN 978-1-910814-14-7 (Paperback) ISBN 978-1-910814-00-0 (e-book) This book is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license. You are free to: • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material Under the following terms: • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission. Please contact [email protected] for any such enquiries. Other than the license terms noted above, there are no restrictions placed on the use and dissemination of this book for student learning materials / scholarly use. -
Conviction of Communist Regime Crimes in Ukraine
Country Report conference “Crimes of the Communist Regimes“ 24-26 February 2010, Prague Volodymyr Viatrovych, Candidate of Historical Sciences Director of the SSU Branch State Archives Conviction of Communist regime crimes in Ukraine Ukraine is one of the countries which suffered most from the Communist regime crimes. Millions of the Ukrainians had been repressed by the Communist regime since 1918 when Ukraine was occupied by Bolshevik’s troops till 1991 when at last it gained independence. Ukraine became an experimental ground for communists where they perfected scenarios of seizure of power and repressions against dissidents. Later, after 1939 these scenarios were used in the Baltic States, and since 1945 – in Central and Eastern European States. A well-known lawyer, the author of term Genocide and one of the authors of Convention On Condemnation of Genocides Rafael Lemkin called the communists policy in Ukraine a classical sample of Soviet Genocide1 with the following stages: repressions against intelligentsia, liquidation of Ukrainian national church, subduing of the main layers of Ukrainian people – peasants who were violently hit by artificial famine. The last step was the dispersion of the Ukrainians by means of deportation and colonization of their lands by the representatives of other nations. Lemkin saw in communist actions a clear-cut consistent plan aimed at elimination of Ukrainian nation. Apparently this plan was not similar to final solution of Jewish problem by the Nazi and did not provide for Holocaust of all the Ukrainians. However, according to Rafael Lemkin the realization of this plan would have meant that Ukraine would perish just as if all the Ukrainians were killed because it would lose the part of the nation which preserved and developed its culture, belief, unifying ideas which paved the way for it and gave a soul to it i.e. -
Citizenship and Nation-Building in Ukraine
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Citizenship and nation-building in Ukraine by Oxana Shevel Purdue University ■ PAPER PRESENTED AT THE WORKSHOP Understanding the Transformation of Ukraine: Assessing What Has Been Learned, Devising a Research Agenda Chair of Ukrainian Studies University of Ottawa (Canada) 15-16 October 2004 DRAFT/NOT FOR CITATION ■ 1. Introduction Although citizenship policy is a key element of nation-building in any state, citizenship policy has been a rather neglected area of Ukrainian studies. Just a handful of articles on the citizenship problem and policy in Ukraine have been written,1 and, to my knowledge, there is no book-length treatment on the subject. This apparent scholarly neglect could be attributed to the fact that in the post-Soviet Ukraine citizenship issue turned out to be a “dog that did not bark.” Unlike in Estonia and Latvia, where initial citizenship laws dis- enfranchised a significant part of the non-titular populations from citizenship, in Ukraine the first citizenship law embraced the so-called “zero option” and extended Ukrainian cit- izenship to all permanent residents of Ukraine. In subsequent years, the only aspect of citizenship policy that attracted media attention was the issue of dual citizenship, specif- ically Ukraine’s disagreements with Russia over it. Dual citizenship controversy found its reflection in the press headlines in the early and the mid-1990s, but has since receded from the headlines and has not received much scholarly attention either. In sum, Ukrainian citizenship policy has been an understudied issue. This paper makes a case against such neglect. It argues that important insights into the larger dynamic of 1. -
Freedom in the World - Ukraine (2010)
Page 1 of 6 Print Freedom in the World - Ukraine (2010) Political Rights Score: 3 * Capital: Kyiv Civil Liberties Score: 2 * Status: Free Population: 46,030,000 Overview Infighting among Ukraine’s top politicians ahead of the 2010 presidential election left key offices vacant for many months in 2009, and populist fiscal policies further jeopardized the country’s economy amid a serious global recession. Perceptions of widespread corruption grew, although the exclusion of a suspicious intermediary company from gas deals between Russia and Ukraine indicated some progress. Also during the year, the authorities arrested a key suspect in the 2000 murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, but investigators had yet to identify the officials who ordered the killing. Despite its numerous problems, Ukraine continued to boast a vibrant civil society and a pluralistic political environment. In December 1991, Ukraine’s voters approved independence from the Soviet Union in a referendum and elected Leonid Kravchuk as president. Communists won a plurality in parliamentary elections in 1994, and Leonid Kuchma defeated Kravchuk in that year’s presidential poll. Over time, Kuchma’s government faced growing criticism for extensive, high-level corruption and the erosion of political rights and civil liberties. The 1999 presidential election—in which Kuchma defeated Communist Party challenger Petro Symonenko—was marred by media manipulation, intimidation, and the abuse of state resources. The 2000 murder of independent journalist Heorhiy Gongadze and credible evidence that appeared to implicate Kuchma contributed to mass demonstrations and calls for the president’s dismissal. Reformist former prime minister Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine bloc led the party-list portion of the 2002 parliamentary elections, marking the first electoral success for the democratic opposition since independence. -
Continuing Controversy in Ukrainian Politics and External Relations
2The Holodomor: Continuing Controversy in Ukrainian Politics and External Relations Blake Hulnick Following Stalin’s rise to power in the early years of the Soviet Union, one of the regime’s first priorities was a rapid collectivization of the agricultural process, beginning as early as 1917. Where agrarian peasants in the “bread basket” of the new Soviet Union, encompassing much of present-day Ukraine, once cultivated grain on an individual basis, they were now called upon by the Soviet authorities to shift to a cooperative agricultural mode. The transition was rocky, replete with peasant revolts and other resistance to Moscow’s central planning scheme. By 1931, however, the collectivization process was proceeding apace, and authorities implemented a grain procurement plan with quotas for collection from individual regions. Quotas were based on harvest estimates from the previous year, and when harvests, particularly in Ukraine, failed to meet these expectations in 1932, the Soviet government took drastic measures, including authorizing coercive methods of grain procurement, and, where grain was not available, the seizure of all other available foodstuffs. The resulting 57 Insights famine in 1932 and 1933, especially pronounced in the ethnically Ukrainian areas of Ukraine and Russia, claimed the lives of several million people. The apparent ethnic specificity of the famine’s effects and Stalin’s known conflicts with Ukrainian nationalism led many to term the event an ethnically targeted campaign, or genocide. The precise number of people who died in the famine, subsequently termed the “Holodomor” by Ukrainian historians, remains the subject of intense debate. Similarly, the causes and motivations for the grain procurement methods and the destruction they caused remains a particularly divisive issue among politicians and historians in Ukraine, Russia, and the Ukrainian diaspora.