Tokarsky, Bohdan

Fighting for the Self: Poetry from the Gulag

(10 Things Everyone Should Know About Ukraine)

Vasyl Stus, video still from “Fighting for the Self”
Vasyl Stus, video still from “Fighting for the Self”

'Fighting for the Self: Poetry from the Gulag'. How the dissident poet Vasyl Stus fought for human and national rights and created unique poetry of the self, overcoming the extreme conditions of the Soviet Gulag.

With Dr Bohdan Tokarsky, URIS Fellow at the University of Basel and the 2020/21 Prisma Ukraїna Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin.

‘10 Things Everyone Should Know About Ukraine’ is made in partnership with the Ukrainian Institute and H.S. Pshenychnyi Central State Film, Photo and Sound Archive of Ukraine.

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