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Krytyka
''Krytyka'' ( uk, Критика; "Critique") is a Ukrainian intellectual monthly/bi-monthly magazine and publishing house dedicated to in-depth analysis of current affairs, culture and book reviews in Ukraine and the region. ''Krytyka'' was founded in 1997 by the Harvard professor of Ukrainian literature George Grabowicz. The magazine is a partner of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, University of St. Gallen ( Center for Governance and Culture in Europe), and an exclusive partner of ''The New York Review of Books'' in Ukraine. ''Krytyka'' receives support from Western and Ukrainian foundations for its various projects (, Robert Bosch Stiftung, ) . ''Krytyka'' is a member of Eurozine, a network of European cultural magazines, and sees its role in mediating between Ukrainian and global intellectual elites. Since 2014, it is also availablin English ''Krytyka'' Magazine ''Krytyka'' follows the model of ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalya Yakovenko
Natalya Nykolayivna Yakovenko ( uk, Наталя Миколаївна Яковенко) is a Ukrainian historian ( Doctor of Historical Sciences), specialist in Latin language, and professor of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Bibliography * Myronova, V., Yakvenko, N. ''Textbook of Latin language''. * Yakovenko, N. ''Ukrainian nobility from the end of 14th century to the mid of 17th century''. Ed.1. Naukova dumka. Kiev 1993. * Yakovenko, N. ''Ukrainian nobility from the end of 14th century to the mid of 17th century''. Ed.2. Krytyka. Kiev 2008. . * Yakovenko, N. Outline of history of Ukraine from Ancient times to the end of 18th century'. Ed.1. Heneza. Kiev 1997. . * Yakovenko, N. Outline of history of Ukraine from Ancient times to the end of 18th century'. Ed.2. Krytyka. Kiev 2005. . * Yakovenko, N. '. Ed.3. Krytyka. Kiev 2006. . * Yakovenko, N. ''Parallel world. Research on history of representations and ideas in Ukraine in the 16th-17th centuries''. Krytyka. Kiev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurozine
''Eurozine '' is a network of European cultural magazines based in Vienna, linking up more than 90 partner journals and just as many associated magazines and institutions from nearly all European countries. ''Eurozine'' is also an online magazine which publishes original articles and selected articles from its partner journals with additional translations into one of the major European languages. By providing a Europe-wide overview of current themes and discussions, ''Eurozine'' offers information for an international readership and facilitates communication and exchange between authors and intellectuals from Europe and worldwide. ''Eurozine'' is a non-profit institution, its office is based in Vienna and headed by managing director Filip Zielinski. Since November 2018 Réka Kinga Papp is Editor-in-chief. History ''Eurozine'' emerged from an informal network dating back to 1983. Since that time, editors of various European cultural magazines have met once a year in European citie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Andrukhovych
Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych ( uk, Юрій Ігорович Андрухович) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Biography In 1985, Andrukhovych co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group, which stands for «burlesque, side-show, buffoonery» (Ukrainian: ''бурлеск, балаган, буфонада'') together with Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Neborak. Yurii Andrukhovych is the father of the Ukrainian writer Sofia Andrukhovych. Andruhovych's works have been translated and published in Poland, Germany, Canada, Hungary, Finland, Croatia (separate books), USA, Sweden, Spain, Russia‚ Austria (separate publications). Translations of Y. Andrukhovich's works into foreign languages were published by the following publishing houses: Wydawnictwo Czarne (Poland), Suhrkamp Verlag (Germany), Knihovna Listů, Fra, Vĕtrné Mlyny (Czech Republic), BAUM, Kalligram, Absynt (Slovakia), József Attila Kör, Ráció, Gondolat (Hungary), Polirom, ALLFA (Romania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Minakov
Mikhail Minakov (Ukrainian: ''Михайло Анатолійович Мінаков''; born on 6 October 1971, Leninsk, Volgograd Oblast, Russia/USSR) is a philosopher, political scholar and historian (researcher of the history of modernity and post-Soviet ideologies), Doctor of Philosophy. His studies focus on human experience, social knowledge, the phenomenon of ideology, political creativity, and the history of modernization. He is also Head of the Ukrainian Research Program at the Kennan Institute (since 2018), Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2008-2018, Chairman of the Kant Society in Ukraine (2013-18), Editor-in-Chief of the journal ''Ideology and policy.'' Early life and education Minakov was born in the vicinity of Volgograd, Russia/USSR. His parents were teachers. They moved to the village of Vidradne in Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR/Ukraine, in 1973. He graduated from the Zaporizhzhya Medical School in 1990 and worked as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykola Riabchuk
Mykola Riabchuk ( uk, Рябчук Микола Юрійович; born September 27, 1953, in Lutsk) - Ukrainian public intellectual, journalist, political analyst, literary critic, translator and writer. Riabchuk is known for his analytical articles and essays on Ukrainian politics, national identity and analysis of Ukrainian history from postcolonial perspective. Married to Ukrainian poet Natalka Bilotserkivets. Biography Riabchuk was born in Lutsk in western Ukraine. He studied engineering at Lviv Polytechnic. He was a member of the literary group around Hryhoriy Chubay with whom he authored the samizdat literary almanach "Skrynya", for which he was expelled from the university. Consequently, he took different jobs including working for the railway, theater electrician, etc. In 1988 Riabchuk graduated from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. From 1985 till 1994 Riabchuk worked as an editor of the "Vsesvit" journal dedicated to translations of literature from forei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serhiy Zhadan
Serhiy Viktorovych Zhadan ( uk, Сергі́й Ві́кторович Жада́н; born 23 August 1974 in Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, musician, translator, and social activist. Life and career Zhadan was born in Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. He graduated from H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University in 1996 with a thesis on the work of Mykhaylo Semenko and the Ukrainian Futurist writers of the 1920s. He then spent three years as a graduate student of philology, and taught Ukrainian and world literature from 2000 to 2004. Since then he has worked as a freelance writer. Starting his career in 1990, his verses revolutionized Ukrainian poetry: they were less sentimental, reviving the style of 1920s Ukrainian avant-garde writers like Semenko or Johanssen. And they drew upon his homeland: the industrial landscapes of East Ukraine. ''Voroshilovgrad'' (the Soviet name for Luhansk) tells a story of a young man c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serhii Plokhii
Serhii Plokhy, or Plokhii ( uk, Сергій Миколайович Плохій, russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Пло́хий; born 23 May 1957) is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, where he also serves as the director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Personal background Serhii Plokhii was born in Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia. He spent his childhood and school years in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, where his family returned soon after his birth. Educational background Plokhii received his undergraduate degree in history and social sciences from the University of Dnipropetrovsk (1980), where he studied under professors Mykola Kovalsky and Yuri Mytsyk, and his graduate degree from the Russian University of the Friendship of Peoples (1982), specializing in historiography and source studies. He received his habilitation degree in history from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1990. Professional backgro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander J
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander and Aleksandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa and Sander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek names expressing "battle-prowess", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line. The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu'' or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Kulyk
Volodymyr Kulyk (russian: Кулик Владимир Николаевич) (born in Chernihiv, October 1, 1969) is a retired Ukrainian football player and coach. He spend most of his career to Desna Chernihiv the main club in Chernihiv. Playing career Born in Sumy, Volodymyr Kulyk became interested with football when he was in the city school's third grade studying in Lokhvytsia, Poltava Oblast where his family moved earlier. When he was in the eighth grade, to Lokhvytsia arrived Leonid Lytvynenko from Brezhnev (today Naberezhnye Chelny) and offered him to drop playing a table tennis and concentrate in football. Since 16 years of age Kulyk participated in football competitions of Poltava Oblast. After serving in the military, he settled in Chernihiv and offered to join the local team. Volodymyr Kulyk started his professional career in Desna Chernihiv playing in the 1993–94 Ukrainian First League season, but his first season was not a successful as the team relegated. (in 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogumiła Berdychowska
Bogumiła Berdychowska-Szostakowska (born 10 January 1964) is a Polish writer and journalist, often writing about the Polish minorities in the former USSR and their history. She was the director of the Bureau of National Minorities in the Polish Ministry of Art and Culture (1989–1994), and the vice-director of Polskie Radio (1994–2002). Since 2003, she has been the Director of the stipends department in Narodowe Centrum Kultury (National Center of Culture). She was in charge of coordinating the Polish-Ukrainian youth exchange. Author of publications in Tygodnik Powszechny and Więzi, among others. In 2014, she co-founded and was a member of the Civic Committee for Solidarity with Ukraine (KOSzU). Berdychowska is also a member of the Civic Committee of the Solidarity with Ukraine (KOSzU). Awards * Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class (Ukraine, 2009) *Antonovych prize (2010) *Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pipes
Richard Edgar Pipes ( yi, ריכארד פּיִפּעץ ''Rikhard Pipets'', the surname literally means 'beak'; pl, Ryszard Pipes; July 11, 1923 – May 17, 2018) was an American academic who specialized in Russian and Soviet history. He published several books critical of communist regimes throughout his career.Kenez, Peter, and Richard Pipe. “The Prosecution of Soviet History: A Critique of Richard Pipes' The Russian Revolution.” The Russian Review, vol. 50, no. 3, 1991, pp. 345–351. JSTORhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/131078 Accessed 4 June 2021. In 1976, he headed Team B, a team of analysts organized by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who analyzed the strategic capacities and goals of the Soviet military and political leadership. Pipes was the father of American historian Daniel Pipes. Pipes was born to a Jewish family in Cieszyn, Poland, which fled the country as refugees after it was invaded by Nazi Germany. Settling in the United States in 1940, he became a natu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel ''The Name of the Rose'', a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as ''Foucault's Pendulum,'' his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes. Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine ''L'Espresso'' beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romantic paintings of Francesco Hayez) appearing 27 January 2016. At the time of his death, he was an Emeritus professor at the University of Bologna, where he taught for much of his life. In the 21st century, he has conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
