From history to politics: the 1937 census, Rus', and Ukrainians in the U.S. diaspora (16.06.2026)
A friendly conversation between Vitaliy Dribnytsya and a supporter from the Ukrainian diaspora in the United States. The historian answers a range of questions — from the classified Soviet population census of the 1930s, linked to the Holodomor, to the meaning of the term “Rus’” in the chronicles and the fate of Ukrainian emigrants in Canada during the First World War. A source for the article on the Holodomor as a man-made famine (the block on the 1937 census).
Key moments
- 00:56 The classified Soviet census of the 1930s and its link to the Holodomor and the repressions
- 01:49 Where to read about it: historian Hennadii Yefimenko and articles on the CIUS website
- 02:11 Rus' in the narrow (chronicle) sense: the Chernihiv, Pereiaslav and Kyiv lands
- 09:20 Ukrainians on the side of Austria-Hungary in World War I; the Sich Riflemen
- 10:52 Canadian internment camps for Ukrainians — subjects of Austria-Hungary (1914–1920)
- 13:19 A conversation about U.S. politics and the presidential elections