Mykola Riabchuk

Mykola Riabchuk (1953) – is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Nationalities’ Studies, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and a guest lecturer at the University of Warsaw and Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Since 2014, he headed the Ukrainian PEN-center and the jury of the “Angelus” international literary award. Dr. Riabchuk penned several books and many articles on civil society, state/nation building, nationalism, national identity, and postcommunist transition in Eastern Europe, particularly in Ukraine. Five of his books were translated into Polish, and one into French (De la « Petite-Russie » à l`Ukraine, 2003), German (Die reale und die imaginierte Ukraine, 2005), and Hungarian (A ket Ukraina, 2015). His last book At the Fence of Metternich’s Garden. Essays on Europe, Ukraine, and Europeanization was written in English and published by ibidem Verlag in 2020.