Ukrainian workers and the national question in 1917
Date and time:
Tuesday 19 October, 2021
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Marko Bojcun will introduce the discussion with a presentation of his new book, The Workers' Movement and the National Question in Ukraine 1897-1918. The panel will explore questions of national inequality and oppression, what state-building solutions were pursued and how the divisions over them that arose influenced the unity of workers and peasants and the outcome of the Revolution.
This event is supported by Brill.
Speaker
Marko Bojcun
Marko Bojcun was born in Australia in 1951 to a family of Ukrainian immigrants. He emigrated to Canada in 1968 and from there to England in 1985. He wrote his Masters dissertation on Ukrainian nationalism during World War Two and his PhD on the workers' movement during the Ukrainian Revolution and Civil War of 1917-20. He has worked as a journalist, campaigner, for national, vcvil and workers' rights, documentary film producer, university lecturer, co-operative farmer and trainer of civil servants. His published books are The Workers' Movement and the National Question in Ukraine 1897-1918 (in English and Ukrainian translation, 2021) The Chernobyl disaster (1988), Ukraine and Europe - a difficult reunion (2001), East of the Wall (2015) and Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine - selected essays 1990-2015 (2020).
Speaker
Yuliya Yurchenko
Yuliya Yurchenko is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability Insitute and the Department of Economics and of International Business at the University of Greenwich, London (UK). Her work deals with state/society/capital complexes and transnational class formation interrogated through Neo-Gramscian method. She works on political economy of geographic Europe and the post-Soviet space, particularly Ukraine. She is the author of Ukraine and The Empire of Capital: from marketisation to armed conflict (Pluto Press: London, 2018).
Speaker
Christopher Ford
Christopher Ford is organiser of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, he has written number of books and articles on Ukrainian labour history including: ‘Ukapisme - Une Gauche perdue, Le marxisme anti-colonial dans la révolution ukrainienne 1917 – 1925’, and is editor of Ivan Maistrenko's, Borotbism A Chapter in the History of the Ukrainian Revolution.
Moderator
Simon Pirani
Simon Pirani is honorary professor at the University of Durham and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He is the author of many articles about energy policy and social issues in Ukraine and Russia, and of The Russian Revolution in Retreat 1920-24: Soviet workers and the new communist elite (Routledge, 2008)
