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✨We are excited to announce the release of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘺𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥: 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩-𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 by Maria Grazia Bartolini, in the Harvard Ukrainian Studies series.

Integrating intellectual history, visual studies, and rhetorical analysis, Bartolini offers a fresh perspective on the religious and cultural life of early modern Ukraine, and on how deeply it belonged to wider Europe.

In the seventeenth century, #Ukrainian religious culture was transformed. Metropolitan Peter Mohyla's reforms and the founding of the Kyiv Mohyla College created a new cultural code, "in which the adoption of a school curriculum based on the studia humanitatis, the emergence of a new art of preaching, the emphasis on rhetoric as an art of persuasion through images, and the cultivation of memory are all intimately tied together."

Focusing on preachers such as Ioanykii Galiatovskyi, Antonii Radyvylovskyi, Dmytro Tuptalo, and Stefan Iavorskyi, the book examines how they adopted new homiletic techniques—among them the landmark 1659 manual 𝘕𝘢𝘶𝘬𝘢, albo sposob slozhennia kazan, the first ars praedicandi in the East Slavic lands.

To make their sermons memorable, these preachers joined Western #European rhetoric and #Baroque aesthetics to Orthodox tradition. Conceits (conceptus praedicabiles), metaphors, emblems, and allegories engaged both the senses and the intellect, prompting listeners to picture each image in their "mind's eye" and store it in memory.

#HURIBoos #NewBook #AcademicPublishing #UkrainianHistory #EarlyModernUkraine #ReligiousHistory #OrthodoxHistory #MemoryStudies #SermonStudies #SlavicStudies #HarvardUkrainianStudies #UkrainianStudies #BookRelease @huri_harvard by @huri.books

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We are thrilled to announce the release of 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 by Svitlana Krasynska @skrasynska, in the Harvard Ukrainian Studies series.

Why did so many civic initiatives in Ukraine stay below the radar rather than register formally? Why did activists and volunteers prefer unwritten rules and personal networks to official channels? Krasynska answers with a four-part model setting demand-side against supply-side factors, and structural against individual ones.

🔸𝐀𝐭 𝐎𝐝𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐬 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞
Vague and inadequate regulation, political conflict, and legal uncertainty made full compliance unworkable for many initiatives. Staying below the radar protected them from arbitrary enforcement and taxation.

🔸𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲: 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐬 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞
For smaller, resource-strapped groups, the cost of registering, in time, money, and paper-based reporting, outweighed what it brought. Remaining informal was the sensible choice.

🔸𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐭𝐬 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫: 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐬 𝐚 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦
Krasynska traces a deep-rooted "culture of informality" to long-standing public distrust of a state seen as ineffective and unfair. Informal self-organization became the accepted way to get vital public work done.

🔸𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞: 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐬 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭
In conditions of deep uncertainty, small personal networks offered speed, flexibility, and freedom of action, letting grassroots initiatives respond to crises at once and draw in part-time volunteers without administrative delay.

⬅️ Swipe to hear from the book.

#HURIBooks #UkrainianLiterature #SelfOrganization #Ukraine #CivilSociety #HarvardUkrainianStudies #UkrainianStudies #CivicEngagement #Volunteering #NewBook @huriharvard by @huri.books

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23 days ago

✨Today is the official book release day of 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘙𝘶𝘴': 𝘈 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 by Alexander Kulik!

📜Did Jews actually live in Old Rus′? Or is it a historical myth? For a long time, researchers and historians have wrestled with two extreme theories while working with evidence: from completely denying the presence of Jewish communities in early Eastern Europe, to exaggerating their size and role in the ensuing formation of Eastern European Jewry.

📜The sources presented in 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘙𝘶𝘴': 𝘈 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 do not corroborate either of these extreme interpretations of absence or presence. In this book, Alexander Kulik adopts a framework that enables readers to conclude the existence of a Jewish settlement in Rus´.

📜By bringing together primary sources in Latin, Hebrew, Old Church Slavonic, and Arabic, this volume provides the definitive scientific answer to one of Eastern Europe's most debated historical questions.

👉 Swipe the carousel to explore the major factors that point to the existence of a Jewish settlement in Rus´.

#HURIBooks #UkrainianStudies #JewishStudies #JewishHistory #UkraineHistory #KyivanRus #EasternEuropeanHistory #UkrainianHistory #MedievalHistory @huriharvard by @huri.books

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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦 by Oleksii Nikitin highlights a conflicted and often disturbing reality of the Soviet 1930s and #WWII: pervasive repression, disinformation, military aggression, and utter disregard for human life by authoritarian regimes, be it Stalinist or German fascist.

Immersing the reader in the life of young Soviet athletes in #Kyiv—boxers, soccer players, runners, and wrestlers—Nikitin shows the "normality" of Soviet life: the sudden arrest of Ukrainian soccer star Konstantin Shchegotskii by the #NKVD, the untold experiences of the wrestler Mykola Zahalskyi in the disastrous Soviet war against #Finland, and even the uneasy equilibrium between the sports apparatchiks running the Ukrainian #Soviet Socialist Republic’s and the all-Soviet teams (as a victory of the #Ukrainian team over the all-Soviet one comes with potential dangers).

Nikitin shows how Soviet state power permeates every layer of daily life, leaving its marks across generations: the quiet pressure to assimilate—traced through the Goldinov children’s names as they shift from traditional Greek-Jewish origins (Isya-Yevsei) toward standard Soviet choices (Ilya, Petro); the isolation of social "misfits" like Ilya’s wife Feliksa Tereshchenko's family, whose Protestant and #Polish roots stand out in the collective of the kolhosp. Deepest of all is the existential terror of the 1932–1933 #Holodomor, where entire lives depended on the mercy of a requisition leader, leaving behind an enduring legacy of raw peasant anger that no amount of Soviet propaganda could erase.

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#HURIBooks #UkrainianLiterature #UkrainianHistory #SovietHistory #HistoryBooks #Decolonization #NewBook @huriharvard by @huri.books

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✨Looking for your next book to read? Literary Hub @literaryhub has featured three HURI Books titles in "10 Essential Ukrainian Reads, From Memoir to Novel," compiled by Sasha Dovzhyk, @ukrainian_kill_joy!

The list highlights:
🔸Lesia Ukrainka’s dramatic poem 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢 (translated by Nina Murray, @houndart), which confronts issues of #colonialism, #patriarchy, and women’s subjugation;
🔸Maik Yohansen’s experimental novel 𝘋𝘳. 𝘓𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘰’𝘴 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘢 𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢 (translated by Uilleam Blacker @uilleamblacker), following an Italian doctor’s eccentric travels through northeastern #Ukraine;
🔸Olena Stiazhkina’s 𝘊𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘋𝘪𝘦 (translated by Dominique Hoffman), which traces four #Donetsk families across decades of #Soviet collapse, #Ukrainian independence, and russian aggression to offer a vital look into the history and identity of #Donbas.

Read the full article on Literary Hub via the link in our story.

#HURIBooks #UkrainianLiterature @huriharvard by @huri.books

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Oleksandr Shums´kyi, the Ukrainian Marxist revolutionary and the people’s commissar for education in Ukraine (1924-1927), believed he could change Bolshevik chauvinism from the inside and help build a socialist federation of independent and equal nations true to the ideals of the 1917 revolutions.

Instead, Moscow's ruling elite in the 1920s, much like Putin today, were eager to absorb Ukrainian national identity. While Bolsheviks publicly supported the aims of Ukrainian independence and self-determination, they, in fact, acted contrary to them, aiming to reestablish Malorossiia (Little Russia) within a new Soviet empire (the USSR of 1924).

Starting in the 1930s, a massive purge of thousands of Soviet politicians in Ukraine and other republics who remained committed to the national ideal of 1917 began. They were arrested, forced to confess under torture to crimes they never committed, and executed.

Shums´kyi acted differently: he denied the regime’s fabricated charges. Stalin punished him mercilessly in response, by torturing and paralyzing him in jail and murdering his wife, though he refrained from assassinating him for over a decade.

Learn more about his unique story of the fight against the Soviet mass repression of Ukraine in Filip Slaveski's and Yurii Shapoval's study, 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯'𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘭𝘦𝘬𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘳 𝘚𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘴'𝘬𝘺𝘪, 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

#HURIBooks #UkrainianHistory #SovietHistory #OleksandrShumskyi #Stalinism #SovietRepression #Decolonization @huriharvard by @huri.books

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In an insightful review for The Times Literary Supplement @the.tls, Boris Dralyuk @boris_dralyuk , a poet, translator, and Associate Professor at the University of Tulsa, discusses the deeply moving poetry of Iya Kiva's @iyakiva1 new collection, 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 (translated by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk @ilchuk_yulia, with an introduction by Amelia Glaser). Highlighting themes of displacement, language, and war—where silence itself is "dressed in Cyrillic letters"—Dralyuk brings crucial attention to contemporary Ukrainian literary voices.

Catch the complete piece on TLS.

#HURIBooks #UkrainianLiterature #PoetryInTranslation #ContemporaryPoetry by @huri.books

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📜 For centuries, imperial expansion and forced assimilation were framed by colonizers as "progress" and "discovery." But for indigenous peoples, this meant a brutal reality: subjugation, the systematic erasure of culture and language, and the violent suppression of their right to self-determination.

These colonial patterns are not bound by geography. Across borders and centuries, empires operate through the same blueprint.

This Indigenous Peoples' Day, we invite you to explore books that expose these universal mechanisms of imperial control, offering 20% off a curated selection of titles with code IPD2026 at checkout.

Swipe through to explore the list 👉

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #Decolonization #IndigenousHistory #Imperialism #Colonialism #HistoryBooks #HURIBooks #UkrainianLiterature @huriharvard by @huri.books

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✨A Taras Shevchenko National Prize and Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize laureate, novelist, poet, and scholar, Oksana Lutsyshyna @oksanalutsyshyna celebrates her birthday today!

At HURI Books, we are proud to have published her novel 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦, translated by Nina Murray, which explores human connection and identity, the immigrant experience, what it costs to be human these days, and how challenging it is to balance ethical and material needs.

Wishing Oksana a very happy birthday and a great year ahead! by @huri.books

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Meet Alex Averbuch @averbuchalex this Saturday at the Frankfurt Book Fair!

"The Last Supper of My Body: A Conversation with Alex Averbuch" is an open discussion moderated by Roksolana Sviato @ro_fiesta, exploring Averbuch’s poetics of the body as an archive of memory, genealogy, and testimony through the use of family archives, letters, and personal recollections from eastern Ukraine.

🗓 Saturday, October 10, 5:00 PM–5:50 PM CEST

📍Ukrainian National Stand, Hall 3.1, Stand C13, Frankfurter Buchmesse

Language: German (with simultaneous interpretation from Ukrainian) by @huri.books

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⚓Did you know that in the 1920s #Odesa was the third major center of Ukrainian #modernism and cinema, after #Kyiv and #Kharkiv?

Yurii Yanovsky's novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 is coming to English-language readers for the first time, from HURI Books, in Ian Ross Singleton's @iansingleton8 translation. In an interview for Chytomo @chytomo_books, Ivan Kozlenko discusses the introduction he has written for it—the avant-garde spirit, the cinematic energy, and the cosmopolitan history behind the novel.

Yanovsky's debut captures the #experimental energy of early Ukrainian #cinema. Structured as the reflections of an aging filmmaker and interwoven with letters, memoirs, and sailors' tales, it turns #filmmaking, #literature, and shipbuilding into acts of creation—building a vessel for memory, identity, and the future.

Reframing 1920s Odesa against russian myths of a single, monolithic culture, the novel celebrates the diverse, multiethnic community of artists who defined the heroic era of #Ukrainian cinema.

#HURIBooks #UkrainianLiterature @huriharvard by @huri.books

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It may seem that the subject of WWII has already been thoroughly researched and examined through the lens of fiction, with thousands of books on the topic from Great Britain, the USA, continental Europe, Japan, the states of the former Soviet Union, and the USSR itself. And yet, Oleksii Nikitin’s novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦 (translated by Catherine O’Neil and Dominique Hoffman, with an introduction by Taras Koznarsky) adds new depth and dimension to the topic. It presents WWII—with all its complex and painful aspects—from a Ukrainian perspective, confronting Soviet clichés and russia's attempts to weaponize the memory of the war.

The novel is based on the true story of Ilya Goldinov, a Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion, a Jewish boy and Soviet patriot, partisan, and soldier who died in Kyiv in 1942. Oleksii Nikitin was able to reconstruct Goldinov’s story only after the Ukrainian authorities declassified the KGB archives in 2011; for the preceding 70 years, these documents had been kept under "Top Secret" classification. Using these documents, Nikitin traces Goldinov's story with clarity and leads the reader on an unexpected journey detailing life in Ukraine under Nazi occupation.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦 spans almost nine years, from 1938 to 1946, capturing an incredible range of momentous events and human experiences: terrors and moments of happiness, loss and survival, grief and hope. Drawing on his own family history, urban memory, and archival research, Nikitin's powerful saga speaks to essential human choices, knowledge, and faith in humanity.

#HURIBooks #TheFaceOfFire #OleksiiNikitin #UkrainianLiterature #WWIIHistory #UkrainianHistory #KGBArchives #JewishHistory @huriharvard by @huri.books

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