Johnathon K. Vsetecka

In the late 1980s, two different investigative commissions were established to evaluate the causes, outcomes, and consequences of the 1932-33 famine in Soviet Ukraine, now known as the Holodomor. These commissions emerged out of a confluence of Ukrainian diaspora activism, academic knowledge production, and international legal and political interest in the famine as a way to study Russian aggression. This was also a period when global transitional justice efforts were underway for a number of groups working to address the legacies of mass violence committed during the twentieth century. This book project centers Ukraine's role in the global movement of transitional justice during the late Cold War period and details the intertwined histories of famine, justice, and international relations.