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The Ukraine Shelf's first episode hosts Elmaz Asan and Rory Finnin to discuss Crimea
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine began not in 2022, but in 2014, with the invasion and occupation of Crimea. This episode explores Crimea’s significance as a strategically important nexus between east and west, between Europe, Russia and the Middle East, and as an integral part of Ukraine historically, politically and culturally. The focus of our discussion is Rory Finnin’s book Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Guests
Elmaz Asan
Elman Asan is a journalist at the Crimean Tatar media outlet ATR and a visiting research fellow at Cambridge, where she is working on a PhD project about British accounts of Russian colonisation policies in Crimea after the annexation of 1783.
Rory Finnin
Rory Finnin is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge and the founder of the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme. He is a scholar of Ukrainian culture and a prominent public commentator Ukraine. He is the author of Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (University of Toronto Press, 2022).