Prof. Dr. Yurii Shapoval

Senior researcher

1975: Graduated from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
1975-1978: Postgraduate studies at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, candidate of historical sciences
1994: Doctor of Historical Sciences
2000: Professor at the Faculty of History and Culture of Ukraine

Political history and the history of political thought in Ukraine in the 19th and 20th centuries
The politics of memory and the process of decommunization in modern Ukraine
The history of the communist totalitarian system in Ukraine
The Holodomor in Ukraine
Historical biography
The mechanism and methods of the communist secret service in Ukraine
Biographies of the Chekists
Polish-Ukrainian relations in the 1930s and 1940s
The communist repressive and punitive system and the Ukrainian nationalist movement
Analysis of school history textbooks