Mark Andryczyk (Administrative Director of the Ukrainian Studies Program) was interviewed by Valeria Radkevych of the Kyiv Independent about The Executed Renaissance – “a generation of Ukrainian intellectuals who emerged in the 1920s and were later executed, imprisoned, or forced into silence during Stalin’s purges of the 1930s.”

In the article, Valeria Radkevych references Andryczyk to argue that the violence of 1937 was a calculated effort to “reshape the entire structure of cultural life in Soviet Ukraine.”

“There’s a rhythm, a pattern to this,” says Andryczyk. “Every time Ukrainian identity has the opportunity politically to consolidate and develop, there comes a point when it has to be curtailed.”

Image Credit: Daria Filippova / The Kyiv Independent