What happens to language during war? Does it become superfluous to actions? Is it twisted? Broken? Lost? In wartime, even the meaning of simple words can change, expand, contract, acquire new resonances and sounds. A Ukrainian Dictionary of War began with the fragments of experiences spoken in the new language of life under war and became a way to document a nation’s shared losses, pain, and belief in victory.

In 2022, poet Ostap Slyvynsky undertook the role of wartime lexicographer, carefully collecting and compiling a dictionary of witness to Russia’s invasion and war against Ukraine. Among the voices represented in A Ukrainian Dictionary of War are those who were forced to leave their homes and venture into the unknown, aid volunteers, medics, soldiers, social activists, and artists. All very different people connected by the experience that war has appeared in their lives.

A documentary project published in conjunction with the Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series, Volume 15. Bilingual Edition.

One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees, collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.

In this exceptional collection of dispatches from occupied Donbas, writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev details the internal and external changes observed in the cities of Makiïvka and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

Aseyev scrutinizes his immediate environment and questions himself in an attempt to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the working-class residents of the industrial region of Donbas. 

In his selection of essays, Serhii Plokhy provides his analysis of the key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine’s complex relations with Russia and the West, tragedies such as the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and Ukraine’s role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Using an elegant style and a comprehensive approach, these essays uncover the causes of the ongoing political, cultural, and military conflict in Ukraine, Europe’s largest country.

Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book tells the stories of Ukrainian women who were sentenced to the GULAG in the 1940s and 1950s.

With this book, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners.

It details the women’s resistance to the brutality of camp conditions not only through the preservation of customs and traditions from everyday home life, but also through the frequent elision of regional and confessional differences.

In 1994, Ukraine gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal and signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty in exchange for security “assurances” from Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Two decades later, in 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and launched a war in eastern Ukraine, breaking those very promises.

Kostenko provides an insider’s view of the negotiations, revealing the internal debates, international pressures, and strategic crossroads that Ukraine faced in the early stages of its independence. Based on documents previously unavailable in English, this book questions the decisions made and the consequences that followed. Was the complete and immediate destruction of Ukraine’s vast nuclear arsenal the strategically right decision for Ukraine? Could history have played out differently?

Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the roots of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the lessons the world must learn.