Yevhen Sverstiuk

In the clouds of the 21st century the apocalyptic symbol of Stalin is hovering over the planet. There was nothing worse than hearing his name, be it in the form of an appeal or a curse. No one is interested in an ordinary Georgian by the name of Soso Dzhugashvili, a seminary student who became...

It appears that some begin to discover the truth about one of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies only in the epoch of the informational explosion, seventy years after the fact! Discover is the right word because the 1933 manmade famine was long suppressed in terms of information, from...

This memorable phrase belongs to a horse in Dovzhenko’s film as it spoke to its master Ivan taking out his aggression on the poor creature with a whip. And so this winter, too, a gloomy Ivan, looking like Captain Zabriokh in Kvitka-Osnovyanenko’s story, sat by the window at home, feeling lonely...