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The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 2013-2014. After an introduction to the methodology of oral history, it presents twenty interviews with participants and eyewitnesses of the events in Ukraine, and documents a series of workshop discussions conducted at a symposium held in 2017. In these workshops, activists and observers of each of the three revolutions exchanged and compared their memories, analyses, and evaluations. This volume thus not only provides a comprehensive collection of firsthand accounts of the three historic Ukrainian upheavals, but also reveals the interrelations between them. The volume documents assessments from Barbara Krauz-Mozer, Markiyan Ivashchyshyn, Natalia Klymovska, Vakhtang Kipiani, Mykola Kniazhycki, Natalyia Zubar, Yulia Tymoshenko, Aleksander Kwaoeniewski, Viktor Taran, Markiyan Matsekh, Yulia Tychkivska, Leonid Findberg, Yulia Mostova, Oksana Zabuzhko, Eduard Drach, Michailo Cherenkoff, Andriy Dudchenko, Oleg Mahdych, Rebecca Harms, Herman van Rumpoy, and Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.
About the author
Dr. Pawel Kowal is Research Fellow at the Chair of European History and Civilization at the College of Europe in Natolin, where he co-leads, together with Professor Georges Mink, the "Three Ukrainian Revolutions" project. He is also Assistant Professor in the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the past, he served as a Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the EU Delegation to Ukraine.
Dr. Iwona Reichardt is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Eastern Europe. She studied political science at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. Her previous experience included work with the Foreign Policy magazine in Washington, DC, and policy analyses for the World Bank.
Dr. Georges Mink is Professor of European Studies at the College of Europe in Natolin and Director Emeritus of Research at the Institut des Sciences Sociales et du Politique, Université de Paris X, Nanterre. Mink is author of, among other studies, Vie et mort du bloc soviétique (Casterman 1996) and Polska w sercu Europy - Od roku 1914 do czasow najnowszych: Historia polityczna i konflikty pamieci (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2017).
Adam Reichardt, MPA, is Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Eastern Europe and a member of the editorial board of the Central European Journal of International and Strategic Studies. Reichardt studied Public and Nonprofit Management at George Mason University and Political Science and International Relations at the University of Wisconsin.
Summary
The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 2013–2014. After an introduction to the methodology of oral history, it presents twenty interviews with participants and eyewitnesses of the events in Ukraine, and documents a series of workshop discussions conducted at a symposium held in 2017. In these workshops, activists and observers of each of the three revolutions exchanged and compared their memories, analyses, and evaluations. This volume thus not only provides a comprehensive collection of firsthand accounts of the three historic Ukrainian upheavals, but also reveals the interrelations between them. The volume documents assessments from Barbara Krauz-Mozer, Markiyan Ivashchyshyn, Natalia Klymovska, Vakhtang Kipiani, Mykola Kniazhycki, Natalyia Zubar, Yulia Tymoshenko, Aleksander Kwaœniewski, Viktor Taran, Markiyan Matsekh, Yulia Tychkivska, Leonid Findberg, Yulia Mostova, Oksana Zabuzhko, Eduard Drach, Michailo Cherenkoff, Andriy Dudchenko, Oleg Mahdych, Rebecca Harms, Herman van Rumpoy, and Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.
Report
"Any student of Ukrainian politics and society will find this collection extremely interesting as it provides a unique opportunity to 'hear the voices' of some of the most prominent actors who may be otherwise difficult to interview. This collection is also an excellent illustration of the methodological challenges facing those conducting oral history research, such as the fluidity of the boundaries between historical facts, subjective memories and scholarly interpretation."-Kateryna Pishchikova, Europe-Asia Studies, 73:2
