Our Others: Stories of Ukrainian Diversity is an award-winning exploration of both the
histories and personal stories of fourteen ethnic minority groups living within the boundaries
of present-day Ukraine: Czechs and Slovaks Meskhetian Turks Swedes Romanians Hungarians
Roma Jews 'Liptaks' Gagauzes Germans Vlachs Poles Crimean Tatars and Armenians. Based
on a combination of academic research fieldwork and interviews Olesya Yaremchuk's literary
reportages paint realistic thoughtful and historically informed depictions of how these
various groups arrived in Ukraine and how they have fared within the country's borders.
Accompanied by vivid photographs that bring the reportages to life Our Others is in some
respects a chronicle of the myriad voluntary and forced migrations that have rolled through
Ukraine for centuries. Simultaneously the book offers a tender-and timely-study of the little
islands of cultural diversity in Ukraine that have survived the Soviet steamroller of planned
linguistic cultural and religious unification and that deserve acknowledgement in Ukraine's
broader cultural identity. The volume's contributors are: Marta Barnych (contributing
co-author) Anton Semyzhenko (contributing co-author) Ostap Slyvynsky (foreword)
