Nataliya Kibita
Visiting Academic at Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford, author of The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy: Power Sharing, Regionalism and Authoritarianism (OUP, 2024) and Soviet Economic Management Under Khrushchev: The Sovnarkhoz Reform (Routledge, 2013).
Dr. Kibita’s research focuses on Ukraine’s political and economic institutions in the 20th century. She takes a historical approach to analyzing the effect of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union on Ukraine’s institutional path, past and present.
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“When Work Felt Like a Holiday”
This reflection by Dr. Nataliya Kibita (University of Oxford) is based on the three interviews from the 'Industrial biographies of the city' Urban Media Archive's collection. The collection was a part of the project “Un/archiving Post/industry”, implemented by the Center for Urban History in 2020 – 2021. The analyzed interviewers represent workers from the city's major industrial enterprises (Lviv Bus Factory, Fork Truck Plant, and Meat-Packing Plant), and cover thier work experiences during the period of 'perebudova' and the early 1990s.