Megan Buskey
@meganbuskey.bsky.social
Ukrainian history, politics, and culture. I also wrote a book called UKRAINE IS NOT DEAD YET (ibidem, 2023). All views my own.
There are few chronicles of life in Ukraine in the 1990s (a fascinating period), and the novel ROCK, PAPER, GRENADE by Artem Chekh, published this week in English translation by @sevenstories.bsky.social, is unforgettable. IMO one of contemporary Ukrainian literature's best showings in the US.
April 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are few chronicles of life in Ukraine in the 1990s (a fascinating period), and the novel ROCK, PAPER, GRENADE by Artem Chekh, published this week in English translation by @sevenstories.bsky.social, is unforgettable. IMO one of contemporary Ukrainian literature's best showings in the US.
Kira Muratova retrospective coming to Lincoln Center in NYC! www.filmlinc.org/daily/film-a...
March 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Kira Muratova retrospective coming to Lincoln Center in NYC! www.filmlinc.org/daily/film-a...
I recently saw an extraordinary film by the Ukrainian artist Dana Kavelina, It Can't be that Nothing Can Be Returned. Increasingly I think the best ways to capture the agony of the full scale war are to reach for metaphor, fantasy and surrealism as this work does www.instagram.com/p/DHKb3V4O_h...
March 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I recently saw an extraordinary film by the Ukrainian artist Dana Kavelina, It Can't be that Nothing Can Be Returned. Increasingly I think the best ways to capture the agony of the full scale war are to reach for metaphor, fantasy and surrealism as this work does www.instagram.com/p/DHKb3V4O_h...
En route to Boston for @aseeestudies and picking out my favorite pics of Rybachuk and Melnychenko's suppressed Memory Park to share during my presentation. Come and talk with me and others about late Soviet Kyiv!
February 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
En route to Boston for @aseeestudies and picking out my favorite pics of Rybachuk and Melnychenko's suppressed Memory Park to share during my presentation. Come and talk with me and others about late Soviet Kyiv!
En route to Boston for ASEEES and picking out my favorite pics of Rybachuk and Melnychenko's suppressed Memory Park to share during my presentation. Come and talk with me and others about late Soviet Kyiv!
November 21, 2024 at 3:28 PM
En route to Boston for ASEEES and picking out my favorite pics of Rybachuk and Melnychenko's suppressed Memory Park to share during my presentation. Come and talk with me and others about late Soviet Kyiv!
Wow, the archive of the National Cinematique of Ukraine is now online, with more than 200 film reels produced in the 1990s now available https://archive.nku.org.ua
February 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Wow, the archive of the National Cinematique of Ukraine is now online, with more than 200 film reels produced in the 1990s now available https://archive.nku.org.ua
There is a lot of excellent reportage about the war but little that successfully captures the intense emotions it has unleashed and how they manifest in the surreal contours of everyday existence. MY WOMEN by Yuliia Illiukha does this powerfully. https://www.128lit.org/my-women
February 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
There is a lot of excellent reportage about the war but little that successfully captures the intense emotions it has unleashed and how they manifest in the surreal contours of everyday existence. MY WOMEN by Yuliia Illiukha does this powerfully. https://www.128lit.org/my-women
Recent discovery: an extraordinary Ukrainian documentary called LEVELS OF DEMOCRACY (1992), which chronicles public gatherings in Kyiv from 1989 to 1992 as they go from hope to anger. It's a part of a burgeoning catalog on YouTube from Ukrkinochronika....
February 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Recent discovery: an extraordinary Ukrainian documentary called LEVELS OF DEMOCRACY (1992), which chronicles public gatherings in Kyiv from 1989 to 1992 as they go from hope to anger. It's a part of a burgeoning catalog on YouTube from Ukrkinochronika....
Appreciated this detailed look at how Mykhailo Boichuk and his followers adapted to the conditions of Socialist Realism in the 1920s -- and were condemned all the same https://muse.jhu.edu/article/862579
February 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Appreciated this detailed look at how Mykhailo Boichuk and his followers adapted to the conditions of Socialist Realism in the 1920s -- and were condemned all the same https://muse.jhu.edu/article/862579
I recommend this new architectural guide of Kyiv from @dompublishers— it’s comprehensive, professional, beautiful, and bilingual (Ukrainian-English). The author seems obsessively, forensically interested in Kyiv history, just as you’d want. https://dom-publishers.com/products/kyiv
February 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I recommend this new architectural guide of Kyiv from @dompublishers— it’s comprehensive, professional, beautiful, and bilingual (Ukrainian-English). The author seems obsessively, forensically interested in Kyiv history, just as you’d want. https://dom-publishers.com/products/kyiv
I have heard so much about mobilization and conscription in Ukraine. They have produced an agonizing set of circumstances. I don’t know what to do but listen and Belorusets offers what she has heard here. An excellent dispatch. https://www.isolarii.com/yevgenia-belorusets/mobilisation
February 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I have heard so much about mobilization and conscription in Ukraine. They have produced an agonizing set of circumstances. I don’t know what to do but listen and Belorusets offers what she has heard here. An excellent dispatch. https://www.isolarii.com/yevgenia-belorusets/mobilisation
In Kyiv now and looking for new places to check out, and came across this review for a boutique nearby 💔.
February 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In Kyiv now and looking for new places to check out, and came across this review for a boutique nearby 💔.
Fascinating @IPAonline interview with Polish psychoanalyst on the psychology of Holocaust bystanders -- also applicable to what happened in Ukraine...
February 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fascinating @IPAonline interview with Polish psychoanalyst on the psychology of Holocaust bystanders -- also applicable to what happened in Ukraine...
Loznitsa’s BABI YAR. CONTEXT “lacks the most important context on which any contemporary scholar of the Jewish genocide builds their understanding of what the Holocaust was and what a terrible role Babyn Yar played in its unfolding on Ukrainian...
February 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Loznitsa’s BABI YAR. CONTEXT “lacks the most important context on which any contemporary scholar of the Jewish genocide builds their understanding of what the Holocaust was and what a terrible role Babyn Yar played in its unfolding on Ukrainian...
Super excited for my book to be the subject of a book panel at the ASN World Convention on Thurs. The panel alone is a dream—@HavryshkoMarta, Hanna Protasova, and Orysia Kulick will be commenting. Come by if you can!
February 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Super excited for my book to be the subject of a book panel at the ASN World Convention on Thurs. The panel alone is a dream—@HavryshkoMarta, Hanna Protasova, and Orysia Kulick will be commenting. Come by if you can!
I’m grateful the selection committee understood the revelatory value of documenting the plight of an ordinary Ukrainian family across the long, bloody 20th century. Ukrainians and Ukrainian-Americans have so many stories to tell their families, each other, and themselves.
February 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I’m grateful the selection committee understood the revelatory value of documenting the plight of an ordinary Ukrainian family across the long, bloody 20th century. Ukrainians and Ukrainian-Americans have so many stories to tell their families, each other, and themselves.
I’m moved to receive the 2024 Book Prize from @AAUS_says for UKRAINE IS NOT DEAD YET. I’m honored to be in the company of previous recipients of the prize, which includes giants of Ukrainian studies like @SPlokhy and @TimothyDSnyder as well as other talented writers & thinkers.
February 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I’m moved to receive the 2024 Book Prize from @AAUS_says for UKRAINE IS NOT DEAD YET. I’m honored to be in the company of previous recipients of the prize, which includes giants of Ukrainian studies like @SPlokhy and @TimothyDSnyder as well as other talented writers & thinkers.
Nice, short documentary on the Yellow Line project, which focuses on documenting the art and architecture of the 20th century Donbas. So many masterpieces destroyed by Russia. https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/en/yellow-line/
February 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Nice, short documentary on the Yellow Line project, which focuses on documenting the art and architecture of the 20th century Donbas. So many masterpieces destroyed by Russia. https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/en/yellow-line/
🤩March 23 in Brooklyn: A panel discussion, film screening, and exhibit in support of Kharkiv School of Architecture https://www.pratt.edu/events/kharkiv-school-of-architecture-2024-new-york-city-educational-event/
February 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🤩March 23 in Brooklyn: A panel discussion, film screening, and exhibit in support of Kharkiv School of Architecture https://www.pratt.edu/events/kharkiv-school-of-architecture-2024-new-york-city-educational-event/
Interesting event: Ukrainian Archives during the War: Preservation of Documentary Heritage and Access to Resources by Maryna Paliienko, head of Department of Archive Science at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv...
February 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Interesting event: Ukrainian Archives during the War: Preservation of Documentary Heritage and Access to Resources by Maryna Paliienko, head of Department of Archive Science at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv...
You can also support efforts to build a museum at Prymachenko's lifelong residence in Bolotnya, Ukraine here: https://ukrainianbeasts.com/ A very inspired project!
February 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
You can also support efforts to build a museum at Prymachenko's lifelong residence in Bolotnya, Ukraine here: https://ukrainianbeasts.com/ A very inspired project!
And for the Prymachenko completist, there's no better source than Марія Примаченко 100. https://rodovid.net/en/product/58/maria-prymachenko-100/
February 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
And for the Prymachenko completist, there's no better source than Марія Примаченко 100. https://rodovid.net/en/product/58/maria-prymachenko-100/
I also recommend Tetiana Zhmurko's excellent essay "Naive (Un)Freedom: On the Ouevre of Maria Prymachenko and Kateryna Bilokur" (p.21) https://pinchukartcentre.org/files/2020/womenartists_en.pdf
February 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I also recommend Tetiana Zhmurko's excellent essay "Naive (Un)Freedom: On the Ouevre of Maria Prymachenko and Kateryna Bilokur" (p.21) https://pinchukartcentre.org/files/2020/womenartists_en.pdf
There's regrettably little written about Prymachenko. For further reading about her, I highly recommend the exhibition catalogue, which contains a compelling essay by @ukr_arthistory (who also kindly answered a number of my questions!). ...
February 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There's regrettably little written about Prymachenko. For further reading about her, I highly recommend the exhibition catalogue, which contains a compelling essay by @ukr_arthistory (who also kindly answered a number of my questions!). ...
Clinton-Washington subway stop in Brooklyn:
February 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Clinton-Washington subway stop in Brooklyn: