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u/notaukienationalist · 2 pointsr/ukraine

Rusyns, who are not Ukrainians or Russians, and not Ukrainophiles or Russophiles, have a long history spanning hundreds of years of historic, cultural, and linguistic development. No one disputes that Rusyn is an older term for Ukrainians, but the mid-19th century is when things especially really started to develop and organize into the nationalism and ethnic identities we see now. Remember there are only about 200 countries in the world, but thousands of languages and cultural groups, so it's far more normal to be a minority, clumsily squeezed into the borders of some other nationality's country, than it is to be an easily defined nationality like English, Italian, Spanish, etc (and in most cases, a regional identity is stronger even than the national one).

If you want a pretty good background of why Rusyns and Ukrainians don't get along, even in North America, 100 years after the major immigrations, here's a book about it. TL;DR: getting told your people and culture don't exist except maybe as a Ukrainian subgroup gets really old really fast.

Here are some resources for further reading that will provide the point of view of those Rusyns who do not consider themselves Ukrainian:

u/bilagaana · 5 pointsr/ukraine

I was in Lviv recently and the city made an impression on me. I've been trying to learn the language since. here are some of the resources that have been helping me.

I used this site to learn the alphabet while in Lviv: http://ielanguages.com/ukrainian.html

When I was asking about pronunciation, a Ukrainian friend sent me This youtube channel and it has been helpful: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2JHi2oHJrVNkhJlVRyK9vg

This site has been helpful: http://www.ukma.edu.ua/eng/ufl/

I recently bought the Pimsleur course and have been listening to it while driving: http://www.pimsleur.com/learn-ukrainian/ukrainian-phase-1-units-1-30/9781442324558


I also bought an english/ukrainian dictionary from amazon, it stays by my couch: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0781803063?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00

u/sexyjc · 7 pointsr/ukraine

Olexander Motyl on modern history.

Also this. Tymothy Snyder is good on WW2.

This is about the RF but brilliant, undervalued and 100% relevant to Ukraine. Maybe a bit outdated though.

u/Morfolk · 1 pointr/ukraine

> All media is full of shit: Belgian, US, Russian and Ukranian.

This is exactly how propaganda machine gets you: Nothing Is True Everything Is Possible

While no media can provide an ideal and detailed account of any event, there is a huge difference between a source that gives you 90% truth with some omitted details and a source that gives you 10% of truth and a bunch of specifically created lies like Russian state-controlled media does.

u/EoghanMuzyka · 2 pointsr/ukraine

Hey, first of all, I recommend !ALL! books and publications of Serhii Plokhii, it's a real treasure. But it's not Only about modern history, so if you need info only about last 30 years, try this book.

u/sposterig · 2 pointsr/ukraine

this book is quite informative: http://www.amazon.com/Borderland-Journey-through-History-Ukraine/dp/0813337925

Plus, of course, you should watch these three movies, which are archetypical for Ukrainian culture:

  • "The Lost Charter", the mystic comedy about the heroic period of Ukrainian history; you can see there the image of Cossak's culture of Naddniprianschina (Dnieper area);
    https://youtu.be/rAuHb2LA17U
  • "The Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors", lyric love tragedy in the Hutsul village, western Carpathian Ukraine;
    https://youtu.be/cREQ9j6fEXI;
  • "For Two Hares", comedy about the old urban life in Kyiv:
    https://youtu.be/R2gKcPiEYyQ

    These three movies are necessary part of the "cultural code" of modern Ukrainians. And you don't really need to understand the language - that's rather for seeing the lifestyle and listening the songs.
u/R_Spc · 2 pointsr/ukraine

Don't know if I'd be able to help, but I released a book about the accident a few months ago. I'd be happy to assist you if I can.

u/romario77 · 9 pointsr/ukraine

I read this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Gates-Europe-History-Ukraine/dp/0465094864

It's the history from old times to modern day and it actually concentrates on how Ukraine was always in the middle between east and west.

u/smiledumb · 2 pointsr/ukraine

Apologies for my butchering of Kyiv, the American educational system is sadly nothing to brag about. As for the book, https://www.amazon.com/Escapes-True-Story-Darian-Diachok-ebook/dp/B07QVMHNGN/ref=nodl_

u/WholeWideWorld · -2 pointsr/ukraine

Oh please? Horrific accounts of looting and killing because of their Russian ethnicity? Please spare me. If anything of the sort has happened, it certainly does not call for a full scale invasion. If any group of people are persecuted either in Ukraine OR Russia, it is the Jews, homosexuals, Muslims or Crimean Tatars...you know... ACTUAL REAL MINORITIES.

One Russian gets called 'moskal' and Putin sends the entire red army in on the pretence that the Ukrainian interim parliament are fascist Nazi scum.

Oh also, Bandera wanted an independent, sovereign Ukraine free from the meddling Germans and Russians. Historians the world over agree^source that the relationship between Bandera and the Germans during the great war was ambivalent; tactical and opportunistic, with both sides trying to exploit the other. He was arrested by the Nazis only to be released because they thought he would help them with Soviet secrets. He was assassinated by a KGB spy in the 50s. Russians like you who call the revolutionaries 'Banderites' are actually doing the people of Ukraine a favour by helping them remember somebody who wanted independence. I'm glad they tore down the statues of Lenin. What the hell did Lenin ever do for the people of Ukraine?
While some nationalist parties in Ukraine who see Bandera as an icon do leave a bad taste in ones mouth, no sane, right minded Ukrainian whose ever stepped a foot out of our corrupt-to-shit country is supporting them. It was Yanukovich, the Putin-whipped lapdog who stripped Bandera of his title even after annual remembrance days were held decades after his death, stamps were printed on the anniversary of it and hundreds of thousands of people marched in Kiev in his memory. But enough about the dead past. That's all it is. Ukrainians have moved on since then and Russia just can't let go. In times like these, against the old tyranny, you're damn right the people will stand together, or divided may they fall.

u/TimTile · 1 pointr/ukraine

"Revolution on the granite"
Some links:
http://www.unn.com.ua/en/news/1256360-o-doniy-revolyutsiya-na-graniti-tse-vtracheniy-shans-stati-povnopravnoyu-krayinoyu-u-yevropeyskomu-spivtovaristvi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oDNuDSBaGo (with English subtitles)

http://books.google.com.ua/books?id=JRLdAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA148&dq=%22Revolution+on+the+granite%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ralmUvrlIsaY4gSyqIDQCQ&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Revolution%20on%20the%20granite%22&f=false
Sorry for such a long link. If somebody knows how to do it right, I will be glad to hear.

Also, you can read something about another event, Orange revolution: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4024253

http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Orange-Ukraines-Democratic-Breakthrough/dp/0870032216

Also, you can explore topic of raider attacks in Ukraine, many of which happen to be in Kiev. http://ti-ukraine.org/en/system/files/research/raider_attacks_-_ti_ukraine_eng.pdf

There is also constant fight between "real estate developers" (I am not sure if it is a right term. It is "застройщики" in Russian.)
There are links in Ukrainian - http://nbnews.com.ua/ru/news/88797/ , http://ru.tsn.ua/kyiv/zhiteli-bereznyakov-snesli-ograzhdenie-zastroyschika-i-nachali-protest-protiv-vyrubki-parka-314169.html , http://gazeta.ua/ru/articles/business/_v-kieve-razgoraetsya-esche-odno-mesto-protivostoyaniya-zastrojschikov-i-kievlyan/504427

Corrupted politicians selling land in the capital, and people, who bought this land, are trying to build there something. People, who live there, are strongly against it, and they're trying to fight it. Mostly, they lose. Especially, after businessmen pay criminals to kick ordinary people's asses.

You can explore topic of paid political activists. Old and young women and men work as activists in political tents (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmz8TpYADXY, it's not Kiev though, just as an example), on demonstrations. There is unemployed sportsmen working as a bullies, I guess. The most famous one is "Vadik the Romanian Titushko" http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukrainian/news/2013/08/130830_titushko_peace_sx.shtml

Anyway, you can write a lot about politics. The capital lives in constant state of political war.
You can write about this guy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Chernovetskyi
Or about today's situation with mayor elections: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/02/us-ukraine-protests-idUSBRE9310EL20130402

Sorry for my broken English!