Historisches Institut
Fürstengraben 13 | 07743 Jena
Mail: yaroslav.zhuravlov@uni-jena.de
Since July 2024, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller University Jena. From May to September 2023, Post-Doctoral Researcher at Bielefeld University, Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology. From January 2021 to 2022, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Kyiv (then on unpaid leave due to the Russian full-scale invasion).
PhD in History from the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine (2019). MA in History, magna cum laude (2012), and BA in History (2010), both from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Research Project at the Kolleg
Eastern European Engagements with the Holocaust in Exile and Emigration
This research project examines debates about the Holocaust within the Ukrainian diaspora from the late 1940s until the end of the Cold War. Through a Ukrainian case study, the project explores how political exile communities constructed, silenced, revised, or critically reassessed narratives of wartime violence, collaboration, and the rescue of Jews. Conceptually, the project contributes to discussions of Holocaust memory beyond the nation-state by examining the diaspora as a specific site of "memory production."
Adopting a transnational and comparative approach, the project analyzes diaspora publications, intellectual networks, and debates that shaped competing interpretations of the Holocaust during the Cold War. Although operating outside the territorial frameworks of postwar Eastern Europe, diaspora communities were deeply invested in shaping national historical narratives.
This project highlights the role of non-state actors in shaping remembrance of the Holocaust, contesting its memory, and transmitting it across borders. Additionally, it demonstrates how Cold War diaspora discourses were formed and how they later influenced memory conflicts in Ukraine after 1991.
Main Areas of Research
Positions and Memberships
The Reflection of Soviet Reality in Citizens’ Appeals to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (the Second Half of the 1960s – the First Half of the 1980s) [Відображення радянської дійсності у зверненнях громадян до ЦК КП України (друга половина 1960-х – перша половина 1980-х рр.)]. PhD dissertation, Kyiv, 2019. (in Ukrainian)
‘“Alarm Bells”: Letters from Workers to the Authorities’ [“Дзвони тривоги”: листи трудящих до органів влади], section comprising four chapters, in Ukrainian Society in the 1960s–1980s: Historical Essays [Українське суспільство в 1960–1980-х рр. Історичні нариси], edited by Viktor Danylenko (Kyiv: NAS of Ukraine, Institute of History of Ukraine, 2022), 380–446. (in Ukrainian)
Albina Pagirya and Yaroslav Zhuravlov, ‘Environmental Movement in the Ukrainian SSR: Under State Control’ [Природоохоронний рух в УРСР: під контролем держави], Ukraine in the 20th Century: Culture, Ideology, Politics 26 (2021): 248–268. (in Ukrainian)
‘The First World Congress of Free Ukrainians as Covered on the Airwaves of “Enemy Voices”: Information Messages from the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR’ [Перший Світовий Конґрес Вільних Українців у радіоефірах «ворожих голосів»: інформаційні повідомлення КДБ УРСР], in Sharing America’s Story with Ukraine: The Voice of America’s Ukrainian Service, 1949–2019, edited by Andriy Karmazyn, Oleksandr Mashevskyi, and Olha Sukhobokova (Cleveland, 2020), 105–116. (in Ukrainian)
‘Organization of the Work of the General Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine with Citizens’ Appeals during the Years of “Stagnation” (the Second Half of the 1960s–the First Half of the 1980s)’ [Організація роботи загального відділу ЦК КПУ зі зверненнями громадян у роки «застою» (друга половина 1960-х – перша половина 1980-х років)], Ukraine in the 20th Century: Culture, Ideology, Politics 24 (2019): 392–406. (in Ukrainian)
‘The Housing Problem in the Ukrainian SSR through the Prism of Citizens’ Appeals to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (the Second Half of the 1960s–the First Half of the 1980s)’ [Жилищная проблема в УССР сквозь призму обращений граждан к ЦК Компартии Украины (вторая половина 1960-х – первая половина 1980-х гг.)], Bulletin of Grodno State University. Series 1: History and Archaeology, Philosophy, Politics 8, no. 3 (2016): 34–44. (in Russian)
‘Soviet Trade and Consumer Services: Reflection of Industry Problems in Citizens’ Appeals to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1965–1985)’ [Радянська торгівля та побутове обслуговування: відображення проблем галузі у листах громадян до ЦК КП України (1965–1985 рр.)], Scientific Works of the History Department of Zaporizhzhya National University 45 (2016): 296–299. (in Ukrainian)
Review of Serhy Yekelchyk, Writing the Nation: The Ukrainian Historical Profession in Independent Ukraine and the Diaspora (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2022), Nordost-Archiv. (in progress)
Review of One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments, edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu and Jordan Luber (Budapest–New York: Central European University Press, 2021), Ukraina Moderna 34 (2022): 306–313. (in Ukrainian)
Review of Mikhail Mitsel, Politics and Paranoia: The Fight of the Communist Party of Ukraine Against “World Zionism” (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2021), Ukraina Moderna 32–33 (2021): 340–349. (in Ukrainian)
Review of Elissa Bemporad, Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013), Ukraina Moderna 29 (2019): 374–382. (in Ukrainian)
Review of Social Transformations in Ukraine: Late Stalinism and Khrushchev’s Age, edited by Viktor Danylenko (Kyiv: NAS of Ukraine, Institute of History of Ukraine, 2014), History of Ukraine 23 (855) (2015): 28–31. (in Ukrainian)