The Kappe Library’s “Contested Spaces” series focuses on regions currently being shaped by violence and heightened partisan disputation.
During Summer 2024 the library added to its KL Research Guides four new guides:
Like the KL’s other Research Guides these recommend books, articles and online resources that are available via the Kappe Library, or open access online. The guides emphasize design: the built environment, landscape design, planning, preservation and regional spatial traditions and practices, but also include socio-cultural and political histories to better understand each region.
Blazhan, Roman (director), Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post Modernism. Buildings and projects in Ukraine 1960-1990, MinimalMovie.com (producer), 2018 (4-minute film, via archdaily.com)
Blumenfeld, Hans. “Russian City Planning of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries,” Journal of the American Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 4, #1, 1944, p.22–33 (Available via Jstor)
Breddels, Lilet, et al (Editors), Urban Coalition for Ukraine : strategies and proposals, Dom Publishers, HT169.U38 U73 2023
Bykov, Alex & Ievgeniia Gubkina, Soviet modernism, brutalism, post-modernism : buildings and structures in Ukraine 1955-1991, Osnovy Publishers; DOM Publishers, NA1188 .B95 2019.
Gubkina, Ievgeniia, Being a Ukrainian architect during wartime : essays, articles, interviews, and manifestos, DOM Publishers, NA1455.U47 G83 2023
Gubkina, Ievgeniia, Slavutych : architectural guide, Dom Publishers, NA1455.U472S538 2016
Hatherley, Owen, “One Better than Stonehenge: On the Gosprom Building and Dzherzhinsky Square, Kharkov,” AA Files, no. 62, 2011, pp. 64–70 (Available via Jstor)
Kappe Library Resource Guide: "Architectures of Central & Eastern Europe"
Shyrochyn, Semën, Architectural guide : Kyiv, Dom Publishers, NA1455.U472 K958 2023
Treffers, Fulco, et al, A vision for Mariupol : the easternmost gateway of Europe, Dom Publishers, HT169.U382 M378 2023
"Ukraine," Grove Art Online, 2012.
Zayarnyuk, Andriy. Lviv's Uncertain Destination : A City and Its Train Terminal from Franz Joseph I to Brezhnev, University of Toronto Press, 2019 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Akinsha, Konstantin, et al (Editors), In the eye of the storm : modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s, Thames & Hudson, N7255.U47 I5 2022
Baitsym, Polina, Art for architecture Ukraine : Soviet modernist mosaics from 1960 to 1990, Dom publishers, NA3850.U38 B35 2020.
Ercolani, Giovanni, The Maidan Museum : preserving the spirit of Maidan : art, identity, and the revolution of dignity, Columbia University Press, AM70.U383 K93 2023
Kurkov, Andreæi (Writer of forward), Treasures of Ukraine : a nation's cultural heritage, Thames & Hudson, N7255.U47 T74 2022
Letzing, John, "This is why it's crucial to track and preserve Ukraine's cultural heritage," World Economic Forum, November 23, 2022.
Makaryk, Irene Rima & Virlana Tkacz (Editors), Modernism in Kyiv : Kiev/Kyïv/Kiev/Kijów/òKieòv : jubilant experimentation, University of Toronto Press, NX456.5.M64 M62 2010.
Makov, Pavlo, Pavlo Makov : fountain of exhaustion : Acqua alta, ist publishing, N7255.U473 M3492 2022
Nikiforov, Yevgen & Polina Baitsym, Art for architecture Ukraine: Soviet Modernist mosaics from 1960 to 1990, DOM Publishers, NA3850.U38 B35 2020.
Savchuk, Solomia (Curator), Ukraine - short stories : contemporary artists from Ukraine, Fabrica, N7255.U47 U388 2015.
SUCHO (Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online) - Initiative to digitize and preserve data from Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions ranging from national archives to children's art centers.
Baumann, Gabriele, and Moritz Junginger. “New ‘Borders’ in Eastern Europe: Ukraine since the Annexation of Crimea and the Outbreak of the Conflict in the Donbass,” in Borders, edited by Gerhard Wahlers, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2017, p.26–39 (Available via Jstor)
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, "Ukraine as a ‘borderland’: a brief history of Ukraine’s place between Europe and Russia," The Conversation, March 3, 2022
Khromeychuk, Olesya. “WHERE IS UKRAINE?: How a Western Outlook Perpetuates Myths about Europe’s Largest Country,” RSA Journal, Vol. 168, #2, 2022, p.26–31 (Available via Jstor)
Tscherkes, Bohdan. “Modernism: Where Is It, What Is It like, for What Purpose Is It There?” Positions, no. 0, 2008, pp. 84–89 (Available via Jstor)
Ukraine's geopolitical history in 10 old maps (KBR, Royal Library of Belgium)
Käihkö, Ilmari, “The War That Never Was,” in “Slava Ukraini!": Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance 2014–2023, Helsinki University Press, 2023, pp. 63–100 (PDF via Jstor)
Shyshko, Oleksandr, To get Ukraine, Glagoslav Publications Ltd, 2015 (Available via Proquest Ebook Central)
Wanner, Catherine. “RADICAL HOPE: The Maidan as Historic Event,” in Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine, Cornell University Press, 2022, p. 82–117 (Available via Jstor)
Zhuk, Sergei I., ""Cultural wars" in the closed city of Soviet Ukraine, 1959-82," in Soviet society in the era of late socialism, 1964-1985, edited by Neringa Klumbytçe and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Lexington Books, 2013 (Available via Proquest Ebook Central)
Knott, Eleanor, Kin Majorities : Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 (Available via Proquest Ebook Central)
Kuzio, Taras, Russian National Identity and the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Federal Academy for Security Policy, 2016 (Research report via Jstor)
Magocsi, Paul R., The roots of Ukrainian nationalism : Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont, University of Toronto Press, 2002 (Available via Proquest Ebook Central)
Belorusets, Yevgenia. “We’re Losing Him! On Monuments to Lenin, and the Cult of Demolition in Present-Day Ukraine,” Re-Centring the City: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity, edited by Jonathan Bach and Michał Murawski, UCL Press, 2020, p.257–68 (Available via Jstor)
De Maio, Giovanna, Russiaʹs View of Ukraine after the Crisis, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), 2016 (Research report via Jstor)
Frances, Sherrin, “Maidan Library: The Emergence of a Protest Library within Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity,” Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. 52, #2, 2017, p.314–23 (PDF via Jstor)
Maæistrenko, Ivan, Borot'bism : a chapter in the history of the Ukrainian revolution, Ibidem Verlag, 2019 (Available via Proquest Ebook Central)
Kuzio, Taras, Ukraine-Crimea-Russia : triangle of conflict, Ibidem Verlag, 2012 (Available via Proquest Ebook Central)
Menkiszak, Marek. “Why War Came to Ukraine,” Russia’s Long War on Ukraine, German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2016, p.2–8 (Research report available via Jstor)
"Ukraine, Russia, and the West: A background reading list," JSTOR Daily, February 23, 2024.
