Professor of history, Director of the Institute for Historical Research at the Lviv National University; visiting professor at Central European University, Budapest, and at Columbia University, New York. He is also a member of the New Eastern Europe editorial board. His publications include: Essays in Ukrainian History: the Making of a Modern Ukrainian Nation (in Ukrainian, 1996, 2000), History of Ukraine (in Polish, 2000).
What makes Ukraine a geopolitically crucial borderland and why has the Ukrainian question become acute at the most critical turns in global history? Historian Yaroslav Hrytsak talks to Review of Democracy about his new book ‘Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation’.
What could have happened had a local war for Lviv not drawn forces away from the Ukrainian revolution in 1918? Experimenting with counterfactual history allows us to reconsider simple questions and search for more precise answers.
