The 2013¿2014 Euromaidan Revolution¿s call for justice dignity and liberty brought Ukraine
which had ¿disappeared ¿ behind the Iron Curtain for decades after the horrors of World War II
into the world¿s public consciousness. Yet the country was soon almost forgotten again. In
early 2022 the rapid escalation of Putin¿s war on Ukraine has put the country back into the
spotlight. Without knowing the country¿s past one cannot understand its present. This
anthology tackles the complex history of terror and violence in Ukraine ¿ from the millionfold
starvation of the Holodomor to the changing occupation regimes from the ¿Shoah by Bullets¿ to
the Chornobyl disaster. Those ready to delve deeper into the checkered painful history of the
country will better understand Ukraine¿s current quest for independence freedom and
democracy. The volume¿s contributors are Serhii Plokhii Timothy D. Snyder Anna Veronika
Wendland Anne Applebaum Eduard Klein Gelinada Grinchenko Gerhard Simon Irina Scherbakowa
Jan Claas Behrends Karel C. Berkhoff Kateryna Mishchenko Klaus Wolschner Nikolai Klimeniouk
Nikolaus von Twickel Oksana Grytsenko Ottmar Träc¿ Rebecca Harms Sebastian Christ
Sébastien Gobert Viktoria Savchuk Volodymyr Yermolenko Wilfried Jilge Christoph Brumme and
Yevhen Hlibovytsky.
