Ivan (John) Jaworsky |How Important Were the Soviet Dissidents? The Case of Ukraine

DATE: Thursday, 3 October 2019 TIME: 7:00 P.M. VENUE: St. Vladimir Institute | 620 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

9 September 2019

From the mid-1960s onwards, until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian diaspora devoted a great deal of attention to the dissidents of Soviet Ukraine. Most of these dissidents have now passed away, and in recent years they have been mentioned only rarely in Ukraine as well as in the diaspora. How important were the dissidents of Soviet Ukraine? And why and how should we remember them? In short, what is their legacy? The presentation will address these and other issues related to the "dissident phenomenon" in post-Stalinist Soviet Ukraine.



IVAN (JOHN) JAWORSKY is Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo. His research interests include dissent and its legacies in the post-Soviet region, regional issues and inter-ethnic relations in Ukraine (with a focus on Crimea and the Crimean Tatars), and civil-military relations in Ukraine. Between 2000 and 2010, he was a research associate for the "Building Democracy in Ukraine" and "Democratic Education in Ukraine" projects (Queen's University). He is the author of The Military-Strategic Significance of Recent Developments in Ukraine (1993) and Ukraine: Stability and Instability (1995). He also prepared, for publication, the memoirs of Danylo Shumuk (Life Sentence, 1984) and Kostiantyn Morozov (Above and Beyond, 2000).


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