Zbigniew Wojnowski

Zbigniew Wojnowski specialises in the history of Ukraine and the USSR. He is the author of The Near Abroad: Socialist Eastern Europe and Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine, 1956-1985 which was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2017. He is currently working on the history of popular music and perestroika in the USSR.

Putin’s ‘history’ of Ukraine has an all-too Soviet legacy

As Ukraine fights to protect its independence, the Russian president uses familiar rhetoric to deny Ukrainians the right to exist

By Zbigniew Wojnowski

/ 25 Feb 2022

Putin’s ‘history’ of Ukraine has an all-too Soviet legacy

The market decides? A short history of Ukrainian pop music

How should the Ukrainian state protect Ukrainian language? The story of an experimental festival tells us much about what can be done - and what shouldn’t.

By Zbigniew Wojnowski

/ 9 Apr 2019

The market decides? A short history of Ukrainian pop music

Whose Crimea is it anyway?

On 18 March, Vladimir Putin declared to the Russian parliament that Crimea had always been an inseparable part of Russia. But in fact the peninsula’s history is not so simple.

By Zbigniew Wojnowski

/ 3 Apr 2014