Short List of Recommended Resources on the War in Ukraine
Artiukh, Volodymyr, and Taras Fedirko, “No, the West Didn’t Halt Ukraine’s Peace Talks With Russia,” Novara Media, Oct. 17, 2022.
Bernabe, Rafael, “The Left and Ukraine: Anti-Imperialism or Alter-Imperialism?” New Politics, Sept. 20, 2023.
Bilous, Taras, “A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv,” Open Democracy, Feb. 25, 2022.
Bondar, Denys, and Zakhar Popovych, “The Left View on the Prospects of Peace Negotiations,” Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), Dec. 12, 2022.
Budraitskis, Ilya, “Putinism: A New Form of Fascism?“ Spectre, Oct. 27, 2022.
The Feminist Initiative Group, “The Right to Resist: A Feminist Manifesto,” Commons, July 7, 2022.
Fletcher, Bill Jr., Don Rojas, and Barbara Smith, “Why African Americans Should Support Ukraine,” Word in Black, April 13, 2023.
Fletcher, Bill Jr.; Olesia Briazgunova; Fabio Bosco; Liz Lawrence, “What does solidarity with Ukraine’s workers look like?” Real News Network, Sept. 7, 2023.
Hawkins, Howie, “National Tour of Ukrainian and Russian Leftists Against the War in Ukraine,” Counterpunch, Aug. 29, 2023.
Hawkins, Howie, “US ecosocialist: ‘Support Ukraine against Russia’s military imperialism and the West’s economic imperialism’,” Green Left, Feb. 2, 2023.
Karadjis, Michael, “Ukraine myths used to justify Putin’s terror,” June 15, 2023.
Liasheva, Alona, “A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left,” Truthout, Feb. 24, 2023.
Matveev, Ilya, The Crisis at the Door: Social Decline in Russia After 24 February 2022 (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Series “The Russian Crisis”. Paper #3), Feb. 2023.
Perekhoda, Hannah, “Ukraine: Peace in Donbas ‘requires the complete withdrawal of Russian armed forces’,” Green Left Weekly, Nov. 14, 2022.
Perekhoda, Hanna, and Ilya Budraitskis, “Ukrainian & Russian Activists on How Putin’s War Emboldens ‘Authoritarian Forces’ Around the World,” Democracy Now!, Sept. 7, 2023.
Perekhoda, Hanna, and Ilya Budraitskis “Resisting Russian Imperialism: 2 Socialists—a Ukrainian and a Russian—on Ukraine’s Struggle for Self-Determination,” The Nation, Sept. 7, 2023.
Perekhoda, Hanna; Ilya Budraitskis; and Denys Bondar, “Resisting Russian Imperialism: Ukraine’s Struggle for Self Determination,” streaming video, New York City leg of speaking tour, Sept. 9, 2023.
Shalom, Stephen R., and Dan La Botz, “What Are the Lessons of Vietnam for Ukraine Today,” Foreign Policy in Focus, Jan. 23, 2023.
Yurchenko, Yuliya, “From Ukraine’s independence to Russia’s invasion,” Green Left, Feb. 3, 2023.
Recommended Movies on the War in Ukraine
Ukraine: From Democracy to Chaos (2012)
Director: Jill Emery, 99 minutes, Trailer
Documentary on Orange Revolution, 2004, and its disintegration.
Winter On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (2015)
Director: Evgeny Afineevsky, 138 minutes, Netflix
Documentary. Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement.
Bitter Harvest (2017)
Director: George Mendeluk, 143 minutes, rated R, Trailer
Set in 1930s Ukraine, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians.
Mr Jones (2019)
Director: Agnieszka Holland, 119 minutes, Prime Video, Trailer
Based on real events, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones risks his life to expose the truth about the devastating famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s. See Colley, Philip, “The True Story behind the ‘True Story’ of Mr Jones,” 2019, and interview with the film’s author and screenwriter, Andrea Chalupa: “For Generations: Genocide and Information Warfare in Ukraine,” May 24, 2023.
Mariupol: The Chronicles of Hell (2022)
Director: Yelyzaveta Tatarinova, 81 minutes, Prime Video, Trailer
Documentary
Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (2022)
Director: Evgeny Afineevsky, 1h 56m, TV-MA, Trailer
Documentary on the horrible realities of the Russian invasion
Twenty Days in Mariupol (2023)
Director: Mstyslav Chernov, 94 minutes, PBS/Frontline, AP, Trailer
An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion.
Longer List of Recommended Resources on the War in Ukraine
List organized alphabetically by author.
List organized by author type.
Other Extensive Collections of Resources, Regularly Updated
United for Peace and Justice, “The Ukraine crisis: commentary, responses, and background.”
European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine.
Balkan Witness, “The Ukraine War: Misperceptions on the Left.”
Links to Other Solidarity Organizations
Commons, Ukrainian journal of social criticism
Posle, a progressive Russian website of anti-war analysis.