Oleksandr is a Master’s student in History at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His research interests focus on the history of sexuality, the history of Soviet society, the history of the Internet, and the oral history of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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Historians Seeking Answers after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine about the Soviet legacy: “Radianske” vs. “Sovietske”?
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)
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…