This is a select bibliography of English-language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Ukraine.

Works listed here are cited in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly sources. Each is published by an academic or major press, written by a recognized expert, or substantially reviewed in scholarly journals; borderline cases are omitted. A selection of primary sources are included. Many of the books below carry their own bibliographies; see the Further reading section for other bibliographies, and the External links section for historical sites, academic sites, and museums.

Citations follow APA style. Book have citations to academic journal or mainstream published reviews when available. For books only partly about the subject, relevant chapter or section titles are provided when useful and available. Translators of the original-language edition are included when possible. In cases where a title or name has appeared with more than one English spelling, the most recent published form is used and a footnote documents any earlier title under which the work appeared.

General surveys of Ukrainian history Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1898) History of Ukraine-Rusʹ vols. 1–10 (in 12 books) / Edmonton, Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1997–2014. (The Hrushevsky Translation Project). Magocsi, P. E., (2010). A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Plokhy, S. (2015). The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. New York: Basic Books. Reid, A. (1999). Borderland. New York: Basic Books. Subtelny, O. (2008). Ukraine: A History (4th ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Szporluk, R. (1982). Ukraine: A Brief History, 2nd ed., Detroit: Ukrainian Festival Committee. Wylegala, A., & Glowacka-Grajper, M. (2019). The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Surveys of Eurasian history Works listed have substantial material and context on Ukrainian history. Fritz, V. (2007). State-Building: A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia (1st ed.). Central European University Press. Halperin, C. J. (2010). National Identity in Premodern Rus'. Russian History, 37(3), 275–294.

Russia

Blum, J. (1971). Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Plokhy, S. (2017). Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation. New York: Basic Books. Thompson, J. M., & Ward, C. J. (2017). Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus’ to the Present (8th edition). London, UK: Routledge.

Ukrainian studies Amar, T. C. (2015). The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Berezhnaya, L. (2015). A View from the Edge: Borderland Studies and Ukraine, 1991-2013. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 34(1/4), 53–78. Bilenky, S. (2018). Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv, 1800-1905 (Illustrated edition). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Budurowycz, B. (1983). Poland and the Ukrainian Problem, 1921-1939. Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne Des Slavistes, 25(4), 473–500. Dabrowski, P. M. (2021). The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. Davies, B. (2007). Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500–1700. Kaminski, A. S. (1993). Republic vs. Autocracy Poland-Lithuania and Russia 1686-1697 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Markovits, A. S., & Sysyn, F. E. (Eds.). (1982). Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism: Essays on Austrian Galicia (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Rieber, A. J. (2014). The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Samokhvalov, V. (2018). Fractured Eurasian Borderlands: The Case of Ukraine. In A. Ohanyan (Ed.), Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Snyder, T. (2004). The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999. New Haven: Yale University Press. ———. (2010). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books. Staliūnas, D. (2007). Between Russification and Divide and Rule: Russian Nationality Policy in the Western Borderlands in mid-19th Century. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 55(3), 357–373. Staliūnas, D., & Aoshima, Y., (eds.). (2021). The Tsar, the Empire, and the Nation: Dilemmas of Nationalization in Russia's Western Borderlands, 1905–1915. Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Budapest: Central European University Press. Thaden, E. (1984). Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1710-1980, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Ther, P., & Kreutzmüller, C. (2014). The Dark Side of Nation-States: Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe. New York: Berghahn Books. Von, H. & Herbert J. (2011). War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine; 1914–1918. Seattle, WA: University of Washington.

Period histories Ukraine before the Russian empire

This section includes works on Ukrainian history before the establishment of the Russian Empire. Barford, P. M. (2001). The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe (1st edition). New York: Cornell University Press. Curta, F. (2006). Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Dolukhanov, P. (1996). The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus. London, UK: Routledge. Halperin, C. (2010). National Identity in Premodern Rus'. Russian History, 37(3), 275–294. Pelenski, J. (1979). The Sack of Kiev of 1482 in Contemporary Muscovite Chronicle Writing. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 3/4, 638–649. Pelenski, J. (1983). The Emergence of the Muscovite Claims to the Byzantine-Kievan "Imperial Inheritance". Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 7, 520–531. Plokhy, S. (2010). The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Raffensperger, C. (2016). Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus´ (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Ukraine during the Russian empire

This section includes works on Ukrainian history generally after the establishment of the Russian Empire until the Russian Revolution. Bilenky, S. (2012). Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations. Redwood City: Stanford University Press. Fisher, A. W. (1970). The Russian Annexation of the Crimea, 1772–1783. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Friesen, L. (2009). Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine: Peasants, Nobles, and Colonists, 1774-1905 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Heuman, S. (1998). Kistiakovsky: The Struggle for National and Constitutional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Kappeler, A. (2001). The Russian Empire: A Multiethnic History (A. Clayton, trans.). Harlow: Longman. Kohut, Z. E. (1989). Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy: Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760s–1830s (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. LeDonne, J. P. (1997). The Russian Empire and the World 1700–1917: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment, Oxford: Oxford University Press. O’Neill, K. (2017). Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press. Subtelny, O. (1980). Russia and the Ukraine: The Difference That Peter I Made. The Russian Review, 39(1), 1–17.

Ukraine during the Soviet era

This section covers Ukrainian history from 19171991. Boriak, H., Graziosi, A., Hajda, L. A., Kessler, G., Maksudov, S., Pianciola, N., & Grabowicz, G. G. (2009). Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and Its Soviet Context (H. Hryn, Ed.; Illustrated edition). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Bruski, J. J., & Bałuk-Ulewiczowa, T. (2016). Between Prometheism and Realpolitik: Poland and Soviet Ukraine, 1921–1926. Krakow, Poland: Jagiellonian University Press. Conquest, R. (1970). The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities. New York: Macmillan. Conquest, R. (2006). The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. London: Pimlico. Hagenloh, P. (2009). Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926–1941. Washington, D.C: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. Himka, J.-P. (1992). Western Ukraine between the Wars. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 34(4), 391–412. Khlevniuk, O. (2004). The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press Liber, G. (2010). Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Liber, G. (2016). Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Mace, J. E. (1983). Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: National Communism in Soviet Ukraine, 1918-1933 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Martin, T. (1998). The Origins of Soviet Ethnic Cleansing. The Journal of Modern History, 70(4), 813–861. Naimark, N. M. (2012). Stalin's Genocides. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pauly, M. (2014). Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923–1934. University of Toronto Press. Snyder, T. (2010). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books. Stachiw, M. (1969). Western Ukraine at the Turning Point of Europe's History 1918–1923. (2 vols.). New York: Shevchenko Scientific Society. Veryha, W. (1984). Famine in Ukraine in 1921–1923 and the Soviet Government's Countermeasures. Nationalities Papers, 12(2), 265–286. Von, H. & Herbert J. (2011). War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine; 1914–1918. Seattle, WA: University of Washington. Wheatcroft, S. (2012). The Soviet Famine of 1946–1947, the Weather and Human Agency in Historical Perspective. Europe-Asia Studies, 64(6), 987–1005. Yekelchyk S. (2015). Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Russian Revolution and Civil War Abramson, H. (1999). A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University. Adams, A. E. (1963). Bolsheviks in the Ukraine: The Second Campaign, 1918–1919. New Haven: Yale University Press. Applebaum, A. (2017). Chapter 1: The Ukrainian Revolution, 1917. In Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. New York: Doubleday. Baker, M. (1999). Beyond the National: Peasants, Power, and Revolution in Ukraine. Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 24(1), 39–67. Baker, M. R. (2016). Peasants, Power, and Place: Revolution in the Villages of Kharkiv Province, 1914–1921 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Betlii, O. (2019). Revolution through the Lens of Ordinary Life in Kyiv. Slavic Review, 78(4), 935–941.