By — Kristin Miller Kristin Miller Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ukraine Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Exploring Ukraine: past and present World Apr 27, 2014 6:16 PM EDT Sunday on NewsHour Weekend we took a look at the history and politics of Russia and Ukraine to dig deeper into what tensions underlie the current conflict. Below you’ll find additional writings from those experts, images from Ukraine’s past, and links to explore one thousand years of history. Ukrainian folk dance Taras Schvchenko La Lavra, Kiev, Russia Bolshevik post in Ukranian General meeting to discuss harvesting on a collective farm (1930 to 1940) “Donbas — Until We Overcome.” Ukrainian SSR gets its own seat at the UN Magazine celebrates 400-year alliance between Ukraine and Russia Outside the parliament building in Kiev on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1991 Notes on the images: Ukrainian dance. The image, Mallorossiskaia pliaska, comes from the Russkii narodnyi lubok ; al’bom, published in 1885, from the collection of the New York Public Library. Taras Shevchenko is celebrated as Ukraine’s national poet and the founder of Ukraine’s literary tradition. The Ukrainian language was prohibited during many years of the Tsarist reign. There is a statue of Shevchenko on P Street between 22 and 23rd Streets in Washington D.C. Find out more from the Library of Congress’ Taras Shevchenko collection. La Lavra, Kiev, Russia, c. 1890-1900. View more early colored photos from The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia, held at the Library of Congress. “Ukrainian Red Army liberates its people“Collection of Russian and Ukrainian posters, 1917-1921, New York Public Library Digital Collections. Ukraine was briefly independent after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and bitterly contested by White and Red Russian armies as well. General meeting to discuss harvesting on a collective farm, Kiev (vicinity), Ukraine, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This image, taken between 1930 and 1940 is part of a larger collection of life in the USSR held at the Library of Congress. “Donbas — Until We Overcome” The Donets Basin (Donetsk area) in Eastern Ukraine was home to some of the largest factories in the Soviet Union. Today the area is the location of clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian groups. Poster from the Dr. Harry Bakwin and Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Soviet Posters Collection, Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library. Adding Ukrainian sign in Opera House in accordance with a seating chart, May 19, 1945. Ukraine’s important status was manifested in the Republic receiving its own seat at the founding of the United Nations. Image from the preparation the first meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco between April 25 and June 26, 1945. United National Photo Archive. Soviet Ruble. The currency of the USSR used the languages from all 15 republics. The largest Russian, is followed directly by Ukrainian. Soviet magazine cover devoted to the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia. This 1954 issue of the magazine Огонек or Spark, suggests the important place held by Ukraine in the USSR. With both the “breadbasket” area and the large mines and industrial developments of the Donets Basin, Ukraine was a vital part of the national economy. 1954 was the year that Nikita Krushchev transferred Crimea to the Ukraine SSR as a gift. Ukrainian Independence, 1991. People wave Ukrainian national flags as they gather outside the parliament building in Kiev on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1991 during a pro-independence rally. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic) Additional materials: Timothy Frye, Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, Timothy Frye on PBS NewsHour, April 19, 2014 Franz-Stephan Gady, Senior Fellow, East-West Institute, “Cyberwar in Crimea?” U.S. News & World Report, March 10, 2014 Kimberly Marten, Professor of political science, Columbia University and Barnard College, Kimberly Marten on The Daily Show, March 7, 2014 Alexander Motyl, Professor of political science, Rutgers University: “Is Losing Crimea a Loss? What Russia Can Expect in Ukraine’s Rust Belt,”Foreign Affairs, March 10, 2104 Maria Snegovaya, doctoral candidate, Columbia University, “Despite Pro-Russian Protests, Majority of Ukrainians Lean Toward Europe,” New Republic, April 14, 2014; “Ukraine-Russia: A battle of futures,” The Washington Post, April 15, 2014. Related links: BBC’s Russia profile BBC’S Ukraine profile Council on Foreign Relations: Russian Federation Council on Foreign Relations: Ukraine The Mapa: Digital Atlas of Ukraine: The Mapa is a project of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. The project’s current focus is on the history of the Holodomor (“death-by-starvation”) – the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33. By — Kristin Miller Kristin Miller
Sunday on NewsHour Weekend we took a look at the history and politics of Russia and Ukraine to dig deeper into what tensions underlie the current conflict. Below you’ll find additional writings from those experts, images from Ukraine’s past, and links to explore one thousand years of history. Ukrainian folk dance Taras Schvchenko La Lavra, Kiev, Russia Bolshevik post in Ukranian General meeting to discuss harvesting on a collective farm (1930 to 1940) “Donbas — Until We Overcome.” Ukrainian SSR gets its own seat at the UN Magazine celebrates 400-year alliance between Ukraine and Russia Outside the parliament building in Kiev on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1991 Notes on the images: Ukrainian dance. The image, Mallorossiskaia pliaska, comes from the Russkii narodnyi lubok ; al’bom, published in 1885, from the collection of the New York Public Library. Taras Shevchenko is celebrated as Ukraine’s national poet and the founder of Ukraine’s literary tradition. The Ukrainian language was prohibited during many years of the Tsarist reign. There is a statue of Shevchenko on P Street between 22 and 23rd Streets in Washington D.C. Find out more from the Library of Congress’ Taras Shevchenko collection. La Lavra, Kiev, Russia, c. 1890-1900. View more early colored photos from The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia, held at the Library of Congress. “Ukrainian Red Army liberates its people“Collection of Russian and Ukrainian posters, 1917-1921, New York Public Library Digital Collections. Ukraine was briefly independent after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and bitterly contested by White and Red Russian armies as well. General meeting to discuss harvesting on a collective farm, Kiev (vicinity), Ukraine, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This image, taken between 1930 and 1940 is part of a larger collection of life in the USSR held at the Library of Congress. “Donbas — Until We Overcome” The Donets Basin (Donetsk area) in Eastern Ukraine was home to some of the largest factories in the Soviet Union. Today the area is the location of clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian groups. Poster from the Dr. Harry Bakwin and Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Soviet Posters Collection, Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library. Adding Ukrainian sign in Opera House in accordance with a seating chart, May 19, 1945. Ukraine’s important status was manifested in the Republic receiving its own seat at the founding of the United Nations. Image from the preparation the first meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco between April 25 and June 26, 1945. United National Photo Archive. Soviet Ruble. The currency of the USSR used the languages from all 15 republics. The largest Russian, is followed directly by Ukrainian. Soviet magazine cover devoted to the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia. This 1954 issue of the magazine Огонек or Spark, suggests the important place held by Ukraine in the USSR. With both the “breadbasket” area and the large mines and industrial developments of the Donets Basin, Ukraine was a vital part of the national economy. 1954 was the year that Nikita Krushchev transferred Crimea to the Ukraine SSR as a gift. Ukrainian Independence, 1991. People wave Ukrainian national flags as they gather outside the parliament building in Kiev on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1991 during a pro-independence rally. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic) Additional materials: Timothy Frye, Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, Timothy Frye on PBS NewsHour, April 19, 2014 Franz-Stephan Gady, Senior Fellow, East-West Institute, “Cyberwar in Crimea?” U.S. News & World Report, March 10, 2014 Kimberly Marten, Professor of political science, Columbia University and Barnard College, Kimberly Marten on The Daily Show, March 7, 2014 Alexander Motyl, Professor of political science, Rutgers University: “Is Losing Crimea a Loss? What Russia Can Expect in Ukraine’s Rust Belt,”Foreign Affairs, March 10, 2104 Maria Snegovaya, doctoral candidate, Columbia University, “Despite Pro-Russian Protests, Majority of Ukrainians Lean Toward Europe,” New Republic, April 14, 2014; “Ukraine-Russia: A battle of futures,” The Washington Post, April 15, 2014. Related links: BBC’s Russia profile BBC’S Ukraine profile Council on Foreign Relations: Russian Federation Council on Foreign Relations: Ukraine The Mapa: Digital Atlas of Ukraine: The Mapa is a project of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. The project’s current focus is on the history of the Holodomor (“death-by-starvation”) – the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33.