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Meet Marta Dyczok, the author of "Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine"

This book was published online by Cambridge University Press
on 14 November 2024

Interview by Sofia Bodnar, book blogger @millionstories.bookclub and Kontakt Next Gen Reporter

Marta Dyczok's summary of the book:
This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine's twenty-first-century rock star president Volodymyr Zelensky. It presents Ukraine as an actor, not a pawn, in international history. And it focuses on people. In the past, historians wrote about Ukraine from a colonial perspective that portrayed it as a region, not its own entity. This shaped the way people thought about Ukraine and created mental maps where it was just part of something else. Put in contemporary terms, Ukraine was subjected to a historical disinformation war. This Element joins voices that are decolonizing that way of thinking by drawing a different mental map, one where Ukraine exists as itself. It explains how the people living on its lands have their own distinct history, how they shaped it, were shaped by it, and had an impact on both European and global history.

Co-organizer: Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada

Sponsors: UCU, Delta Bingo, Kontakt Ukr TV