Master Student in Comparative History at Central European University.
Her research interests encompass the cultural and social history of the Cold War. In her current project, she focuses on the development of the youth musical countercultures in the Soviet Union and countries of the Socialist Bloc in the 1960s-80s. Her interests also cover the history of the youth protests and students’ activism in the second half of the twentieth century.
Stories
Ukrainians Started as the Scots and Ended Up as the Irish
In this conversation with Visible Ukraine editor Marta Haiduchok and RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Yaroslav Hrytsak—author of the new book Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation—explains what makes Ukraine a geopolitically crucial borderland and why the Ukrainian question has become…
Sounds like Decolonization: Vopli Vidopliassova and Alternative Ukrainian Music in the 1980s
Inspired by the talk with Maria Sonevytsky on the release of her new book Tantsi, this article offers reflections on the ways and opportunities to apply decolonization to the field of Soviet cultural history and anthropology through the case of…
A Savage War of Russian Decline
In this conversation co-hosted by Marta Haiduchok (Visible Ukraine) and Ferenc Laczó (the Review of Democracy), Serhii Plokhy – author of the new book The Russo-Ukrainian War – discusses why Ukraine was so crucial to the Soviet collapse and how…