US Association of University Presses compiles list of scholarly works on Ukraine 

The Association of University Presses is gathering resources to help understand russia’s war against Ukraine.

«As we watch in horror while Russia inflicts ongoing violence and suffering on the people of Ukraine, it can be hard not to feel helpless. Faced with a state actor known for sophisticated disinformation and propaganda campaigns, the need for knowledge and reliable understanding of events is also felt widely», – they said.

The essential reading list «On Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine» includes:

• University of Alberta Press (translations of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s History of Ukraine-Rus’, Lesia Ukrainka’s The Song of the Forest, Ihor Shevchenko’s Ukraine between East and West);  
• American Historical Association (webinar «Russia and Ukraine: History Behind the Headlines»);
• Amsterdam University Press (Roman Adrian Cybriwsky’s Kyiv, Ukraine – Revised Edition: The City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013-2014, Alexander Motyl and Ksenya Kiebuzinski’s The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941: A Sourcebook)
• Baylor University Press (Voices of the Voiceless: Religion, Communism, and the Keston Archive)
• Cambridge University Press (84 books on Ukrainian history, politics, ethnography, etc.);
• Central European University Press (10 eBooks on the history of Eastern Europe and Ukraine);
• University of Chicago Press (9 books about Ukraine, including Karl Schlögel’s Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland)
• Columbia University Press (16 books about russia’s aggression in eastern Ukraine, the history of communism in the USSR, decommunization in Ukraine, etc.);
• Cornell University Press (8 books about «democracy» and fascism in russia);
• Edinburgh University Press (Pål Kolstø’s Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Interest and Identity in Russia and the Post-Soviet Space);
• Georgetown University Press (7 books about russia’s influence in the eastern European region, deterrence and reassurance);
• Harvard University Press (recommended books from Ukraine and about Ukraine: Yuri Kostenko’s Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History, Stanislav Aseyev’s In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas, Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love);
• Johns Hopkins University Press (recommended reading, including books by Serhii Plokhy and Taras Kuzio);
• Leuven University Press (Russia, Invariably Different?);
• Manchester University Press (books about the history of Eastern Europe after World War Two and politics in modern russia);
• Marine Corps University Press (Journal of Advanced Military Studies Special Issue on Strategic Culture);
• McGill-Queen’s University Press (5 books about the history of Ukraine in the 20th century and contemporary Canadian-Ukrainian relations);
• University of Michigan Press (Erik S. Herron’s Normalizing Corruption
• Failures of Accountability in Ukraine);
• MIT Press (Rajan Menon and Eugene B. Rumer’s Conflict in Ukraine 
• The Unwinding of the Post–Cold War Order);
• Oxford University Press (more than 20 books about Ukraine);
• Qatar University Press (several publications);
• Rand Corporation (commentary and reports);
• University of Regina Press (Serge Cipko’s Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada’s Response);
• University of Rochester Press (several books about the soviet occupation of Kyiv ad Ukrainian soviet dissidents);
• Stanford University Press (resources about the history of Ukraine);
• University of Toronto Press (resources about the history of Ukraine);
• US Institute of Peace (articles about the russian-Ukrainian war);
• Yale University Press (scholarly works about Ukraine and novels such as Serhiy Zhadan’s Mesopotamia);
• Project MUSE (multiple publishers).

Recommended reading can be submitted to [email protected].

Ukrainians researchers have been given free access to resources available through Research4Life.

The EU will provide 200 million euros to support Ukrainian scientists and students.