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31 Jan 2026 Gennadii Korolov

As for Ukraine, the Entente would not even consider the possibility of its separation from Russia

31 Jan 2026 Serhy Yekelchyk
Born and educated in Ukraine, Serhy Yekelchyk received a PhD from the University of Alberta in 2000. He is the author of eight books on modern Ukrainian history, Stalinism, and Russo-Ukrainian relations. His monograph, Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (Oxford University Press, 2014), was the recipient of the Best Book Award from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies, and its Ukrainian translation in 2019 received a special diploma from the Lviv Book Forum. His survey of Ukrainian history, Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (Oxford University Press, 2007), was Choice Magazine’s Book of the Year and went o...

Jerzy Matusiński in Soviet Custody: Insights from NKVD Interrogation Records

31 Jan 2026 Konstantin Boguslavsky
This article is devoted to the study of previously unknown documents that shed light on the fate of Jerzy Matusiński, the former Consul of the Republic of Poland in Kyiv. We introduce into scholarly circulation documents discovered in the Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine. Analysis of these sources is instrumental for clarifying the particulars of the operation to detain and arrest employees of the Polish Consulate in Kyiv that was carried out by Soviet state security organs in September 1939. The article also presents internal NKVD correspondence, as well as transcripts of Jerzy Matusiński’s interrogations by investigators of the USSR ...

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