Oleksandr Gogun

Oleksandr Gogun (b. 1980) is a historian and a researcher of the Second World War, the Soviet regime, and the partisan and Ukrainian insurgent movements. He is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Eastern European History at Humboldt University of Berlin; he defended his candidate’s dissertation (2006) on the armed nationalist formations in the western regions of Ukraine in 1943–1949.

Contribution

He is the author of several monographs, including “Stalin’s Commandos: Ukrainian Partisan Formations, 1941–1944” (published in six languages) and “Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukrainian Insurgents.” He works with archival documents and is a popularizer of history and a contributor to Radio Liberty.

In Vox Veritatis materials

Gogun’s lecture “Liberation from Prosperity: What the Red Army Brought to Europe” (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) is used as a source in the article The Red Army’s “Liberation” of Europe: the terminology of “liberation” versus occupation, looting sanctioned from above, and “reparations” as the dismantling of industry.