Olena Palko
Biographic Data
| ID | 4149570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olena Palko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olena |
| FAMILY NAME | Palko |
| SIGNATURE | PALKO O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9576-7906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Non‐territorial arrangements in interwar Soviet Ukraine: The development of the judicial network for minority populations
In the 1920s, in Soviet Union ethnicity became territorially institutionalised, meaning that every Soviet nationality was promised a territory of their own, either in the form of a separate or an autonomous Soviet republic, national region or a separate national town or village council (soviet). Within those national‐territorial units, the Soviet state strove to provide access to state institutions, political representation, police and judicial p…
Minorities at War, Part 1: State Policies in Times of Conflict
This short introduction provides an overview for the first part of the special issue of ‘Minorities at War’. The issue’s overarching theme explores how periods of conflict influenced the relationship between minority groups in Central and Eastern Europe and their respective host states during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The articles featured are based on contributions originally presented at the BASEES Study Group for Minor…
Minorities at War, Part 2: Minority Agency in Times of Conflict
This introduction provides an overview of the second part of thespecial issue titled “Minorities at War. Minority Agency in Timesof Conflict.” The articles in this issue underscore the role ofminority agency during times of conflict at the local, national, andregional levels. It examines how minorities self-organize inresponse to crises, the role of civic organizations and diasporas inproviding aid during wartime, and the impact of war on the cre…
Wunsch und Wirklichkeit: Die Ukraine als kartographisches Konstrukt. Ukraine as a Cartographic Construct
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been trying for some time to delegitimize Ukraine by portraying it as a Bolshevik “invention”. In fact, the idea of an independent Ukraine was born in the 19th century. This can be easily traced using historical maps: The first ethnographic map showing a cohesive area of settlement of the “Little Russians” extending beyond state borders dates to 1861. This and an ethnolinguistic map of the southern Russian dia…
Away from Russia? History Writing Before, During, and After the War
Stalindorfs'kyi raion: Dokumenty i materialy
Revisiting the Polish Vector in Soviet History and Politics
The Path to the Soviet Nation: The Policy of Belarusization
Between Moscow, Warsaw and the Holy See: The Case of Father Andrzej Fedukowicz Amidst the Early Soviet Anti-Catholic Campaign
This article offers a micro-history of Soviet anti-religious actions during the mid-1920s through a reconstruction of the investigation of Father Andrzej Fedukowicz and his forced collaboration with the Soviet secret services. In November 1924, Fedukowicz was forced to sign a letter to Pope Pius XI and a year later committed suicide to avoid the humiliation caused by his actions. This article reveals how elaborate the Soviet secret services' tech…
Poles of the World Unite”: The Transnational History of the 1929 World Congress of Poles Abroad in the Context of Interwar Soviet–Polish Rivalries
By investigating the information and propaganda campaign surrounding the election of delegates to the 1929 World Congress of Poles Abroad, this article seeks to elucidate a complex interplay between foreign policy considerations, security concerns, and nationality policies of the Polish and Soviet governments. It examines the role of national minorities in the Soviet modernization effort and the ongoing Polish-Soviet rivalry of the interwar perio…
Contested minorities in the ‘New Europe’: National identities in interwar Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Among the many challenges facing the new, or enlarged, nation-states that arose on the territories of the former empires of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in 1918, few were as vexing or complex as the so-called ‘minorities question’. Thousands of disparate communities suddenly discovered that they now existed as minorities, often in areas adjacent to their designated homelands. As an introduction to this special issues, this article pr…
Myroslav Shkandrij, Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910–1930: Contested Memories
Stephen Velychenko, Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine: Leaflets, Pamphlets, and Cartoons, 1917–1922
Mykola Khvyl’ovyy and the making of Soviet Ukrainian literature
The October Revolution brought about a radical shift in the cultural sphere. A new generation of artists and writers was formed. Their orientation towards the future and critical attitude to the past initiated a new chapter of revolutionary and proletarian culture. In Soviet Ukraine, this new artistic cohort in addition embraced national sentiments advancing a culture that was both Soviet and Ukrainian. This article examines the artistic and ideo…
Reading in Ukrainian: The working class and mass literature in early Soviet Ukraine
This article examines the working-class audience in Soviet Ukraine and the changes in its reading appetites during the 1920s. Under the Soviet nationalities policy of korenizatsiia introduced in 1923, the print-runs of Ukrainian-language literary products increased significantly. Nonetheless, as this article argues, those numerous publications often did not reach Ukrainian readers and if they did, they could hardly satisfy the interest appetites …
Serhiy Bilenky, Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv, 1800–1905
Karl Schlögel, Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland
Matthew Frank, Making Minorities History: Population Transfer in Twentieth-Century Europe
Righting the Writing. The Power Dynamic of Soviet Ukraine Language Policies and Reforms in the 1920s-1930s
The first post-revolutionary decades became decisive for the development of the Ukrainian language, national culture and identity. The Ukrainian language, previously subject to a number of bans, finally entered the stage of intensive status and corpus planning. Thanks to this, it became a decisive factor in the rivalry between different forms of statehood vying on the Ukrainian territory after 1917. At the same time, the status upgrade and broade…
Grigol Ubiria, Soviet Nation-Building in Central Asia: The Making of the Kazakh and Uzbek Nations
Mayhill C. Fowler, Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge: State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine
Per Anders Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism
Jeffrey Veidlinger, In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
Ukrainian National Communism: Challenging History
The aim of this article is to examine the evolution of national communism in Ukraine in the twentieth century. In this paper, national communism in Ukraine is discussed as the only possible legal opposition to the Soviet authority that arose from the contradiction between the interests of the centralized state (in the Soviet Union as a whole) and claims for national self-determination either in cultural, economic or political dimensions (in the u…
Contested minorities in the ‘New Europe’: National identities in interwar Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Among the many challenges facing the new, or enlarged, nation-states that arose on the territories of the former empires of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in 1918, few were as vexing or complex as the so-called ‘minorities question’. Thousands of disparate communities suddenly discovered that they now existed as minorities, often in areas adjacent to their designated homelands. As an introduction to this special issues, this article pr…
Mykola Khvyl’ovyy and the making of Soviet Ukrainian literature
The October Revolution brought about a radical shift in the cultural sphere. A new generation of artists and writers was formed. Their orientation towards the future and critical attitude to the past initiated a new chapter of revolutionary and proletarian culture. In Soviet Ukraine, this new artistic cohort in addition embraced national sentiments advancing a culture that was both Soviet and Ukrainian. This article examines the artistic and ideo…
Reading in Ukrainian: The working class and mass literature in early Soviet Ukraine
This article examines the working-class audience in Soviet Ukraine and the changes in its reading appetites during the 1920s. Under the Soviet nationalities policy of korenizatsiia introduced in 1923, the print-runs of Ukrainian-language literary products increased significantly. Nonetheless, as this article argues, those numerous publications often did not reach Ukrainian readers and if they did, they could hardly satisfy the interest appetites …
Ukrainian National Communism: Challenging History
The aim of this article is to examine the evolution of national communism in Ukraine in the twentieth century. In this paper, national communism in Ukraine is discussed as the only possible legal opposition to the Soviet authority that arose from the contradiction between the interests of the centralized state (in the Soviet Union as a whole) and claims for national self-determination either in cultural, economic or political dimensions (in the u…
Per Anders Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism
Jeffrey Veidlinger, In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
Righting the Writing. The Power Dynamic of Soviet Ukraine Language Policies and Reforms in the 1920s-1930s
The first post-revolutionary decades became decisive for the development of the Ukrainian language, national culture and identity. The Ukrainian language, previously subject to a number of bans, finally entered the stage of intensive status and corpus planning. Thanks to this, it became a decisive factor in the rivalry between different forms of statehood vying on the Ukrainian territory after 1917. At the same time, the status upgrade and broade…
Grigol Ubiria, Soviet Nation-Building in Central Asia: The Making of the Kazakh and Uzbek Nations
Mayhill C. Fowler, Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge: State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine
Matthew Frank, Making Minorities History: Population Transfer in Twentieth-Century Europe
Reading in Ukrainian: The working class and mass literature in early Soviet Ukraine
This article examines the working-class audience in Soviet Ukraine and the changes in its reading appetites during the 1920s. Under the Soviet nationalities policy of korenizatsiia introduced in 1923, the print-runs of Ukrainian-language literary products increased significantly. Nonetheless, as this article argues, those numerous publications often did not reach Ukrainian readers and if they did, they could hardly satisfy the interest appetites …
Serhiy Bilenky, Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv, 1800–1905
Karl Schlögel, Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland
Myroslav Shkandrij, Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910–1930: Contested Memories
Stephen Velychenko, Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine: Leaflets, Pamphlets, and Cartoons, 1917–1922
Mykola Khvyl’ovyy and the making of Soviet Ukrainian literature
The October Revolution brought about a radical shift in the cultural sphere. A new generation of artists and writers was formed. Their orientation towards the future and critical attitude to the past initiated a new chapter of revolutionary and proletarian culture. In Soviet Ukraine, this new artistic cohort in addition embraced national sentiments advancing a culture that was both Soviet and Ukrainian. This article examines the artistic and ideo…
Contested minorities in the ‘New Europe’: National identities in interwar Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Among the many challenges facing the new, or enlarged, nation-states that arose on the territories of the former empires of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in 1918, few were as vexing or complex as the so-called ‘minorities question’. Thousands of disparate communities suddenly discovered that they now existed as minorities, often in areas adjacent to their designated homelands. As an introduction to this special issues, this article pr…
Stalindorfs'kyi raion: Dokumenty i materialy
Revisiting the Polish Vector in Soviet History and Politics
The Path to the Soviet Nation: The Policy of Belarusization
Between Moscow, Warsaw and the Holy See: The Case of Father Andrzej Fedukowicz Amidst the Early Soviet Anti-Catholic Campaign
This article offers a micro-history of Soviet anti-religious actions during the mid-1920s through a reconstruction of the investigation of Father Andrzej Fedukowicz and his forced collaboration with the Soviet secret services. In November 1924, Fedukowicz was forced to sign a letter to Pope Pius XI and a year later committed suicide to avoid the humiliation caused by his actions. This article reveals how elaborate the Soviet secret services' tech…
Poles of the World Unite”: The Transnational History of the 1929 World Congress of Poles Abroad in the Context of Interwar Soviet–Polish Rivalries
By investigating the information and propaganda campaign surrounding the election of delegates to the 1929 World Congress of Poles Abroad, this article seeks to elucidate a complex interplay between foreign policy considerations, security concerns, and nationality policies of the Polish and Soviet governments. It examines the role of national minorities in the Soviet modernization effort and the ongoing Polish-Soviet rivalry of the interwar perio…
Away from Russia? History Writing Before, During, and After the War
Minorities at War, Part 1: State Policies in Times of Conflict
This short introduction provides an overview for the first part of the special issue of ‘Minorities at War’. The issue’s overarching theme explores how periods of conflict influenced the relationship between minority groups in Central and Eastern Europe and their respective host states during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The articles featured are based on contributions originally presented at the BASEES Study Group for Minor…
Minorities at War, Part 2: Minority Agency in Times of Conflict
This introduction provides an overview of the second part of thespecial issue titled “Minorities at War. Minority Agency in Timesof Conflict.” The articles in this issue underscore the role ofminority agency during times of conflict at the local, national, andregional levels. It examines how minorities self-organize inresponse to crises, the role of civic organizations and diasporas inproviding aid during wartime, and the impact of war on the cre…
Wunsch und Wirklichkeit: Die Ukraine als kartographisches Konstrukt. Ukraine as a Cartographic Construct
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been trying for some time to delegitimize Ukraine by portraying it as a Bolshevik “invention”. In fact, the idea of an independent Ukraine was born in the 19th century. This can be easily traced using historical maps: The first ethnographic map showing a cohesive area of settlement of the “Little Russians” extending beyond state borders dates to 1861. This and an ethnolinguistic map of the southern Russian dia…
Non‐territorial arrangements in interwar Soviet Ukraine: The development of the judicial network for minority populations
In the 1920s, in Soviet Union ethnicity became territorially institutionalised, meaning that every Soviet nationality was promised a territory of their own, either in the form of a separate or an autonomous Soviet republic, national region or a separate national town or village council (soviet). Within those national‐territorial units, the Soviet state strove to provide access to state institutions, political representation, police and judicial p…
Political science (20 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (16 works) · History (13 works) · History (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Soviet and Russian History (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Economic history (8 works)