Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine I

Dr. Paweł Kowal served as a Research Fellow at the Chair of European History and Civilization at the College of Europe in Natolin, where he co-led, together with Professor Georges Mink, the “Three Ukrainian Revolutions” (3R) project. He is also a Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the past, he served as a Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the EU Delegation to Ukraine.

Permanent Professor at the College of Europe in Natolin. From 2019 to 2023 he was the Chairholder of the Chair of European History and Civilization. He is a sociologist and political scientist, specialising in Central and Eastern Europe. He has been one of the main two leaders of the Three Ukrainian Revolutions (3R) research project which was carried out by the College of Europe in Natolin from 2016 to 2024. He is Director Emeritus of Research at the Institut des Sciences Sociales et du Politique (CNRS - France), Université de Paris X, Nanterre and former President of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES), 2015-2021. His research and publications – more than 250 – include books, chapters in the collective publications, articles and expert papers, and are dedicated to political systems, the sociopolitical evolution of these regimes, the conversion of ex-communist elites in Central and Eastern Europe and the Europeanisation of national political systems. He was also a co-editor of the first two volumes of the Three Ukrainian Revolutions publication prepared in the framework of the 3R research project and published by Ibidem. Among his recent books is also La Pologne au coeur de l'Europe, de 1914 à aujourd'hui, histoire politique et conflits de mémoire, published by Buchet-Chastel in 2015 (French version) and in 2017 (Polish version).

Dr. Iwona Reichardt is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Eastern Europe. She studied political science at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. Her previous experience included work with the Foreign Policy magazine in Washington, DC, and writing policy analyses for the World Bank.

Myroslaw Marynowytsch, 1949 im ukrainischen Dorf Komarovychi nahe Lwiw geboren, ist ukrainischer Menschenrechtsaktivist, Mitbegründer der ukrainischen Helsinki-Gruppe, politischer Gefangener, später Präsident und jetzt Ehrenpräsident der ukrainischen Vereinigung von Amnesty International und Ehrenpräsident des ukrainischen PEN-Zentrums sowie Träger des Ordens der Freiheit der Ukraine und zahlreicher anderer Ehrungen. Er arbeitet als Publizist sowie Religionswissenschaftler und Vizerektor der Ukrainischen Katholischen Universität in Lwiw.

Dr. Mykola Riabchuk studied history and literary theory in Moscow in 1985–1988. During the 1990s, he co-edited the leading Ukrainian intellectual journals Vsesvit, Suchasnist, and Krytyka. Since 2012, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Nationalities’ Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Riabchuk served as a Fulbright Fellow at Penn State University, the University of Texas, and George Washington University, Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC, Reuters Fellow at Oxford, Milena Jesenska and EURIAS Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Ramsay Tompkins Professor at the University of Alberta, and Ukrainian Studies Fellow at Harvard. Riabchuk is Honorary President of the Ukrainian PEN Center and Jury Head for the Angelus International Literary Award. His previous books include From ‘Little Russia’ to Ukraine (Krytyka / Universitas 2000; L’Harmattan / Markovic 2003); Two Ukraines: Real Borders and Virtual Wars (Krytyka 2003; KEW 2004; Örökség Kultúrpolitikai Intézet 2015); Die reale und die imaginierte Ukraine (Suhrkamp 2005); Gleichschaltung: Authoritarian Consolidation in Ukraine, 2010-2012 (KIS 2012); Postcolonial Syndrome (KIS 2011; KEW 2015).

Tomasz Stêpniewski is an associate professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. He is also the co-editor (along with Soroka) of the book Ukraine after Maidan: Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security (Stuttgart: ibidem 2018).

Dr. Andrew Wilson is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at UCL SSEES. His publications include Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West (2014), Ukraine‘s Orange Revolution (2005), and The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (2002).

Wolczuk, Kataryna – Professor of East European Politics at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on politics in Eastern Europe, the EU’s relations with post-Soviet states as well as on Russia and Eurasian integration. Her publications include: Eurasian Economic Integration: Law, Policy, and Politics, Edward Elgar: 2013, Ukraine between the EU and Russia: the Integration Challenge, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (with R. Dragneva) and The Ukraine Conflict: Security, Identity and Politics in the Wider Europe, Routledge: London and New York, 2017 (co-edited with D. Averre). She is an Associate Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House and a Senior Professorial Fellow at the European Neighbourhood Chair at the College of Europe in Natolin.