ATTENTION! This assignment is a 3-5 page double-spaced paper on a key topic, question, or issue you find interesting within the course material. Look at it through a critical lens exploring its general idea, significance, and impact on the past/present/future of Ukraine. The paper should consist mostly of your ideas and not just be a collection of quotations from other sources. You can contact us to discuss potential topics. Extensive copying of Internet or published materials for this assignment will result in a zero for the assignment. You can self-check your paper for plagiarism at turnitin.com. We will check papers at the site we feel might be plagiarised.
You should use a minimum of three scholarly sources in your paper, and papers should be written in MLA style. (Please, DO NOT write your papers on the topics of Chornobyl or the Famine of 1932-1933. And please use library resources, NOT Wikipedia or only Internet sources.)
Our topics includes:
-The Origins and History of the Kyivan Rus
-Ukrainian Language, Folklore, and Folk Art
-The Cossack Era
-Ukrainian Culture in the 18th Century
-19th Century Ukraine; Ukrainian Literature
-Ukraine in World War 1
-The Beginning of the Soviet Era, Ukrainian
-Renaissance of the 1920s and Stalin’s Terror in Ukraine
-Ukraine in World War II
-The Thaw, Khrushchev and Agriculture
-From Khrushchev through Ukrainian Independence; Chornobyl and its Aftermath
-Modern Ukrainian Agriculture
-Ukrainian Education
-The Decade of Independence, Modern Ukrainian Politics, Ukraine’s Political Future
-New Writing from Ukraine, Bu-Ba-Bu and Yuri Andrukhovych
-Major Ukrainian Cities
