Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Researcher at ZOiS (Centre for East European and International Studies) and SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, and teaches East European Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna.
Her research addresses memory politics, borders and borderland identities, with a focus on Ukrainian-Russian borderlands. From 2014 to 2018, she was guest editor of the Eurozine focal points Ukraine in European Dialogue and Russia in Global Dialogue.
Her books include War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (co-editor, 2017) and Borderlands into Bordered Lands: Geopolitics of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine (2010).
Articles

In the shadow of victory
The memory of WWII in the Russian–Ukrainian conflict
Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War, another war is being fought in its shadow. The ongoing Ukrainian-Russian conflict is fuelled by recycled Soviet cliches. Memory of the victory over fascism, first weaponized by the Kremlin during the Orange Revolution, continues to frame the Russian view of Ukraine.

The making and unmaking of revolutions
What 1917 means for Ukraine, in light of the Maidan
This year marks 100 years since the momentous revolutions in Russia in 1917. The Russian government’s stance on the anniversary is deeply ambivalent, but 2017 offers Ukraine a chance to explore its own centenary of (short-lived) independence, as well as other parts of its national story, as Tatiana Zhurzhenko explains.

It seems that, subsequent to the “hybrid war” between Ukraine and Russia, reconciliation efforts have ensued – but only at first glance. In fact, what we witness is a continuation of war by other means, writes Tatiana Zhurzhenko. Mapping the growing alienation between the two nations, she asks: under what conditions is dialogue possible?

Russia's never-ending war against "fascism"
Memory politics in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict
Seventy years after the end of World War II, writes Tatiana Zhurzhenko, the fight for hegemony in Europe continues – disguised as a conflict of historical master narratives. The beginning of the current round of memory wars in the post-Soviet space can be dated back to 2005, when the sixtieth anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany turned into a loyalty test for the politicians of neighbouring countries.
Diaries and memoirs of the Maidan
Ukraine from November 2013 to February 2014
In these impressions of the Maidan protests collected by Timothy Snyder and Tatiana Zhurzhenko, one hears the voices of those who witnessed history in the making. The role of civil society and the Russian-speaking middle class, as well as individual existential decisions, also come to the fore.
Post-Orange Ukraine: Lost years?
A conversation with Tatiana Zhurzhenko
In an interview conducted before Euromaidan commenced, Tatiana Zhurzhenko discusses the intricacies of regional tensions surrounding Ukraine, taking into consideration questions of memory, language and a putative civic, liberal Ukrainian nationalism.
Heroes into victims
The Second World War in post-Soviet memory politics
In post-Soviet societies, narratives of suffering have overtaken heroic triumphalism. Tatiana Zhurzhenko examines reasons for this shift, asking whether new victim narratives reconcile former enemies or provide additional opportunities to articulate hostilities.