Oleksandr Kozytskyi

Historians Seeking Answers after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine about the Soviet legacy: “Radianske” vs. “Sovietske”?

April 1, 2025

This article is dedicated to Ukrainian historian-intellectuals in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. In this work, I seek to demonstrate how the wartime context shapes historians’ scholarly perspectives on the Soviet legacy and influences changes in knowledge production and…

Subculture or Counterculture: Kyiv’s Homosexual Communities in the Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Period (1985-2004)

January 5, 2025

This article is devoted to the study of the anthropological dimension of the existence of Kyiv’s homosexual communities in late Soviet and post-Soviet Kyiv. By outlining the interaction with urban spaces and dating practices, it emphasizes the existence of a…