VADEMECUM CONTEMPORARY HISTORY UKRAINE A guide to archives, research institutions, libraries, associations and museums Edited by Georgiy Kasianov and Wilfried Jilge In collaboration with: VADEMECUMCONTEMPORARY HISTORY UKRAINE Oleksandr Androshchuk CONTEMPORARY HISTORY UKRAINE VADEMECUM VADEMECUM VADEMECUM – CONTEMPORARY HISTORY UKRAINE VADEMECUM – CONTEMPORARY HISTORY UKRAINE A guide to archives, research institutions, libraries, associations and museums Edited by Georgiy Kasianov and Wilfried Jilge In collaboration with: Oleksandr Androshchuk On behalf of the Goverment Foundation for the Critical Appraisal of the SED-Dictatorship Berlin–Kyiv 2008 VADEMECUM – CONTEMPORARY HISTORY UKRAINE A guide to archives, research institutions, libraries, associations and museums Edited by Georgiy Kasianov and Wilfried Jilge In collaboration with: Oleksandr Androshchuk on behalf of the Goverment Foundation for the Critical Appraisal of the SED-Dictatorship Original: Ukrainian Translation by Tetiana Batanova, Kyiv Address for orders Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur Kornenstraße 5 D-10177 Berlin Tel.: 0049 – (0)30 - 23 24 72 00 Fax: 0049 – (0)30 - 23 24 72 10 e-mail: [email protected] www.stiftung-aufarbeitung.de Institute of Ukrainian History of NANU | Instytut istoriï Ukraïny NANU 01001, Kyiv 4 Hrushevs'koho St. Tel./Fax: (38044) 279 63 62 e-mail: [email protected] www.history.org.ua Price: 6 Euro | 40 UAH First Editioin 2008 Berlin–Kyiv 2008 Typesetting and layout: Schimmel Satz & Graphik, Würzburg ©2008 5 TABLE OF CONTENT Introduction ...................................................................................................... 9 1. Archives .......................................................................................................... 14 1.1 State Archives and Archives of Other Central Institutions ................................ 14 1.2 Regional State Archives ................................................................................... 23 1.3 Archives of academic institutions and libraries ................................................. 45 2 Research Intitutions ......................................................................................... 50 2.1 Research Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ................ 50 2.2 University Departments ................................................................................... 51 3 Libraries .......................................................................................................... 56 4 STATE AGENCIES, PUBLIC ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES AND FOUNDATIONS ..... 71 5 MUSEUMS, MEMORIALS AND MEMORIAL SITES ............................................ 91 6 INTERNET SITES ............................................................................................. 121 7 PERIODICALS AND SERIAL PUBLICATIONS ..................................................... 125 8 FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS ................................................................................ 130 9 ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................................ 137 10 Editors ......................................................................................................... 140 Černihiv Luc'k Sumy Žytomyr Kyjiv Chmel'nyc'kyj Vinnycja Čerkasy Černivci Mykolajiv Introduction 9 INTRODUCTION Ukraine has undergone the process of post-Communist transformation since 24 August, 1991 – the date of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. The very term transformation implies both overcoming the legacy of Communism, and co-existence of it’s elements with newly born basics of an open, democratic society. History and historical memory could serve as the most significant example of this. In the second half of the 1980s the Ukrainian history was turned into a battlefield between the national-democratic movement and the Communist nomenklatura. The democratic intelligentsia, public activists and politicians from the national-democratic camp have concentrated their efforts on revelations of the crimes of totalitarianism doing their best to discredit the Communist regime. The social and political meaning of that Soviet past has been actualized in the present: it has been used quite straightforwardly in political infighting. In the 1990s public discussions over the ‘totalitarian past’ were greatly influenced by the current political agenda, i.e. with the struggle between ‘left’ and ‘right’, between communists and their allies from one side, and nationalists from another. Nationalists and national-democrats demanded a ‘trial over Communism’, a ‘new Nuremberg’, and lustrations. However, the society at whole was not responsive to these appeals mostly due to a bitter economic and social crisis which lasted for a decade. Ukraine, like the majority of other post-Soviet states did not pass through so called ‘de-Communization’. Nevertheless, due to the continuous struggle over historical memory, the Soviet period of the Ukrainian past has been actualized in public consciousness and has become one of the most controversial parts of the state politics of memory and of public debates. In the course of re-evaluating the Soviet past (the last term was equated to the totalitarianism) a set of topics of paramount significance was finalized: the Ukrainian revolution of 1917 – 1921, Stalinism in Ukraine (1920s – beginning of 1950s, with heavy emphasis on repressions, purges and assimilation), Great Famine of 1932-1933, nationalist movement of 1930s – 1950s (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists), the history of the nationalist guerilla of 1940s – 50s (Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Ukrainian acronym - UPA), the intellectual dissent of 1950s – 70s. The debates of these themes were often interpreted in exclusively national terms and were supported by institutions of state leadership, nationally inclined intellectuals and historians (as well as their opponents) in order to create an essentialized, heroic or victimized historical image of the national self. This image served different legitimizing and political aims of the state, its leadership and those who created that images and symbols in order to strengthen their own position in the post-Soviet society. For this reason the anti-Soviet struggle of nationalist Ukrainian movement in the 1940s- 1950s is one of the most dominant topics of the Soviet past, a fact, which is mirrored 10 Introduction also in the field of interest of associations, institutes or web sites presented in that Vademecum. It is widely believed both by the majority of professional historians and the public in Ukraine that the ‘true’ interpretation and presentation of topics listed above will help society to liberate itself from the legacy of totalitarianism that in turn will lead to the better future. According to this conventional wisdom, the ‘true’ history can be found in the archival documents, particularly in those that were classified for decades for ideological reasons. For a decade the Ukrainian archives have been overcrowded with professional researchers, amateurs, journalists, private persons. They were accompanied by a number of foreign scholars. There were also particular practical reasons for private persons: victims of political repressions and their relatives obtained the right to access related files. In the end of 1990s thousands of Ostarbeiter looked for their personal files to prove their status since Germany has started to pay compensation to them. As a result the archives were pressed to exercise more openness and sensitivity to the public demand. A number of access limitations were abolished, thousands of files declassified. Archives of enforcing agencies (Ministry of Interior, Security Service of Ukraine) were opened for researchers and interested public. However, new problems emerged: the majority of archives was (and still are) not equipped technically to meet growing demand in information, their database as a rule is organized in truly archaic manner, the access rules and regulations in many cases can be treated by the archival staff in a very arbitrary manner. Growing interest in the past, particularly in the ‘totalitarian period’, continuous discussions over ‘hot topics’ of Ukrainian history in the 1990s and beginning of 2000s have provoked an emergence of new institutions dealing with the past, particularly with the Soviet period. Public demand for ‘true history’ and for openness has led to establishment of non-governmental institutions: libraries, research centers (like Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies), societies (like Memorial), museums. Many of them have established themselves as resource and research centers. Recently (May, 2006), the Ukrainian Government following practices of neighboring countries in Easter Europe (Poland, Slovakia) has established the Institute of National Memory (INM). The Institute belongs to the structures of executive power, it is expected that the INM will promote the state (official) line in establishing and promoting the politics of memory. Due to the variety of different institutions and bodies dealing with contemporary history it will be useful to be informed about distinctions between them. State institutions (archives, libraries, research institutions) as a rule are not ideologically oriented/ preoccupied (with exceptions caused by possible personal inclinations of the staff). Public and private collections might be based on certain ideological conception. For instance, institutions, collections, WEB resources specialized