Here are some of the main posts in which I learn from the work of distinguished scholars on the troubled 20th-century history of Ukraine:
- Famine: Ukraine and China—Robert Conquest, Timothy Snyder, and Anne Applebaum
- See also A brave journalist.
- For Applebaum, see also Iron Curtain and Between East and West
- For Snyder, see Bloodlands, and
- On tyranny (including further readings)
- Philippe Sands: East West street, and
- The Ratline.
- Blind minstrels of Ukraine (William Noll)
- The great siege of Przemysl.
Another fine perspective on the modern history of Ukraine through its soundscape is Maria Sonevytsky, Wild music: sound and sovereignty in Ukraine, introduced here. See also Ukraine: traditional soundscapes, Ukraine: liturgy, and under Life behind the Iron Curtain; and note Parajanov‘s Ukrainian film Shadows of forgotten ancestors.
Stephen Jones: a blog 