Three Revolutions ? Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine III: Archival Records and Historical Sources on the 1990 Revolution on Granite (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society)

The third instalment of this multi-volume project presents a selection of archival sources from the time of Ukraine’s Revolution on Granite in October 1990. They include telegrams sent to participants of the Revolution from supporters in different parts of Ukraine, KGB documents such as internal notes and other records, as well as transcripts of parliamentary sessions from the time of the revolution. All materials included in the volume are published in two languages: the original language of the document (Ukrainian or Russian) and in English translation.

The publication completes two earlier SPPS volumes: Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine I – Theoretical Aspects and Analyses on Religion, Memory, and Identity edited by Paweł Kowal, Georges Mink, and Iwona Reichardt (2019), and Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine II – An Oral History of the Revolution on Granite, Orange Revolution, and Revolution of Dignity edited by Paweł Kowal, Georges Mink, Iwona Reichardt, and Adam Reichardt (2019).

Dr. Iwona Reichardt is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Eastern Europe. She teaches courses on Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. Reichardt is co-editor of: Three Ukrainian Revolutions: Mobilisation and Change in Contemporary Ukraine, 3 vols. (ibidem 2019-22).