Iryna Skubii

Books:

Single-authored Books:

Trade in Kharkiv in the Years of NEP (1921–1929): Economy and Everyday Life. [Torhivlya v Xarkovi v roky NEPu (1921–1929): ekonomika ta povsyakdennist’]. (Kharkiv: Rarytety Ukrainy, 2017), 315 p.

Book chapters:

“Early Soviet Consumption as a First “Battle” on the Cultural Front.” In Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century, ed. by Heidi Hein-Kircher, Magdalena Eriksroed-Burger, and Julia Malitska. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, forthcoming).

“Oral History of the Holodomor.” In Holodomor: History and Memory, ed. by Liudmyla Hrynevych. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023, forthcoming).

“We Did Not Shrink From Eating Carrion:” Food Disgust and Early Soviet Famines. In Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral, ed. by Max Ryynänen, Heidi S. Kosonen, and Susanne C. Ylönen. (New York: Routledge, 2022, 119–130) (co-author Rebecca Manley).

“Tourism Development and Problems of Preserving the Historical Memory in Ukraine.” [Rozvytok turyzmu ta problemy zberezhennya istorychnoyi pam’yati v Ukrayini]. In Philosophy of Tourism: Diversity of Meanings. [Filosofiya turyzmu: rozmayittya sensiv], ed. by N.I Moisyeyeva and O.O. Krasnoruts’kyy, 40–45. (Kharkiv: KhNTUSG, 2019).

Peer-reviewed articles:

“Famines, Animals, and the Environment.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies. Special Issue. Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies (ed. by Tanya Richardson and Darya Tsymbalyuk) (2024) (under review)

“Adapting to Catastrophe: Food Waste and Survival During the Famines.” Journal of Contemporary History. Special Issue: Waste in Conflict, ed. by Iris Borowy and Viktor Pal) (2023 ) (under review).

with V. Kulikov. “Recent Trends in Economic and Business History: The Analysis of the Most Impactful Articles Published from 2016 to 2020.” Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: History, no. 61, 2022, p. 266-292, https://www.doi.org/10.26565/2220-7929-2022-61-11. (forthcoming, in Ukr.)

“Goods for the Smallest Citizens: Consumption, Spaces, and Material World of Toys in early Soviet Ukraine.” Childhood in the Past 14:1 (2021): 55–68.

“Women Consumers in Urban Soviet Ukraine in the 1920–30s: Between Ideology and Everyday Life.” History of Retailing and Consumption 6:1 (2020): 30–44.

„Bogactwo w Czasach Radzieckich: Wymiar Materialny Życia Ukraińskiej Elity Ekonomicznej w Latach Dwudziestych i Trzydziestych XX Wieku.” [Weath in the Soviet times: material world of the Ukrainian economic elite in the 1920–1930s]. Res Historica 48 (2019): 193–213. (Enlg.)

“Universal Department Store as a Project Of Sovietization of the Urban Space and Consumption.” [Universal’nyi mahazyn yak proekt radyanizaciyi miskoho prostoru i spozhyvannia], Commons: Journal of Social Critics. Space and Inequality 12 (2019): 46–51.

“Problem of the Trauma Understanding in Soviet Consumption in 1920–1930s.” [Problema rozuminnya travmy v radyans'komu spozhyvanni v 1920–1930-ti roky], Naukovi Zapysky National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.  Historical Sciences 1 (2018): 67–72.

“Department Store as Space of Urban Consumption in 1920–1930s in Soviet Ukraine.” [Univermah yak prostir miskoho spozhyvannia v 1920-1930-ti roky v Radianskii Ukraini], City, Culture, Politics and Society 3 (2017): 162–175.

“Business Risks in The Trade in Kharkiv under NEP.” [Pidpryyemnyts'ki ryzyky u sferi torhivli v Kharkovi v roky nepu], Journal of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. History. Special Issue 49:1134 (2014): 144–156.

Articles (selected):

“Famines in Soviet Ukraine. What We Still Need to Know.” IWMpost. Magazine of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen. 130 Winter (2022): 10.

“Department store as a “Soviet” symbol in the Ukrainian modern urban space.” [Universal’nyi mahazyn yak radyans’kyi symvol v mis’komu prostori suchasnoyi Ukrayiny], Language, Culture, and Society in Ukraine and its Diaspora. Collected Papers: Conference Proceedings, ed. by L. Tsymbala and A. Nedashkivska. Edmonton, Canada: Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada, XLІХ (2020): 84–100. (in Ukr.)

“Material welfare of the elderly consumers in the 1920–1930s’ Soviet Ukraine: from ideology and everyday needs.” [Materialne zabezpechennia spozhyvachiv pokhyloho viku v 1920–1930-ti roky v radianskii Ukraini: vid ideolohii do povsiakdennykh potreb], Tavriiskyi National University Scientific Reviews. History 30:4 (2019): 82–86. (in Ukr.)

“Consumption, man, and gender: historical and philosophical analyses (the example of Soviet society under Stalin).”[Spozhyvannia, liudyna i hender: istoryko-filosofskyi analiz (na prykladi radianskoho suspilstva za doby stalinizmu)], Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University: Historical and Philosophical Issues 27 (2019): 49–54 (co-author Svitlana Pylypenko). (in Ukr.)

“In search for the consumer: new actors of social history of 1920s – 1930s.” [V poshukakh spozhyvacha: novi aktory sotsial'noyi istoriyi 1920–1930-kh rokiv], Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University: Historical and Philosophical Issues 27 (2018): 64–70. (in Ukr.)

“Male consumer demands in the urban space of Soviet Ukraine in the 1920–1930s.” [Cholovichi spozhyvchi potreby v mis’komu prostori radyans’koyi Ukrayiny v 1920–1930-ti roky], East 153 (2018): 79–83. (in Ukr.)

“Consumption in Soviet city in 1920–1930s: between ideology and everyday life.” [Spozhyvannya v radyans'komu misti u 1920–1930-kh rokakh: mizh ideolohiyeyu ta povsyakdennistyu], Ukrainian Historical Collection 19 (2017): 190–199. (in Ukr.)

“Material world of childhood and children’s goods in Soviet consumption in 1920–1930s.” [Materialnyi svit dytynstva ta dytiachi tovary v radianskomu spozhyvanni v 1920–1930-ti roky], Ukraine in XX century: Ideology, Politics, Culture 22 (2017): 152–163. (in Ukr.)

“‘In What Cold Country are We Living. Everything is Hidden, Everything is in Underground’: Shadow Economy, Smuggling and Trade in Kharkiv under NEP.” [V kakoi kholodnoi strane my zhivem, u nas vse skryto, vse v podpol'e’: tenevaia ekonomika, kontrabanda i torgovlia v khar'kove v gody nepa]. Constructing the ‘Soviet’? Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities. (2013): 117–123. (in Rus.)

“The Cooperative Trade in Kharkiv in the Early Years of the NEP and Its Place in the Policy of the Soviet Authorities.” [Kooperatyvna torhivlya v Kharkovi v pershi roky nepu ta yiyi mistse v politytsi radyans'koyi vlady], The History of Trade, Taxes and Duties: Collection of Scientific Papers. 1(5) (2012): 141–146. (in Ukr.)

“The Problem of the Development of State Retail Trade in Kharkiv under the NEP.” [Problema stanovlennya derzhavnoyi torhivli v Kharkovi v roky nepu], Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. History of Ukraine. Ukrainian Studies: Historical and philosophical sciences. 15 (1006) (2012): 41–45. (in Ukr.)

“The Joint Stock Trade Enterprises in Kharkiv in the Years of NEP.” [Aktsionerni tovarystva torhivli v Kharkovi v roky nepu], Ukrainian Historical Collection. 15 (2012): 140–146. (in Ukr.)

“The committees of market merchants as the instruments of regulation the trade in Kharkiv under NEP.” [Komitety rynkovykh torhivtsiv yak instrument rehulyuvannya torhivli v kharkovi v roky nepu], The History of Trade, Taxes and Customs: Collection of Scientific Papers. 2 (2012): 141–146. (in Ukr.)

“The trade as a sphere of activity of state security bodies in Kharkiv in the early years of the NEP (1921 – 1923).” [Torhivlya yak sfera diyal'nosti orhaniv derzhavnoyi bezpeky v Kharkovi v pershi roky nepu (1921 – 1923)], Actual Problems of National and World History 14 (2011): 226–233. (in Ukr.)

“The Trade in Kharkiv in the Coverage of 1920s’ Periodical Press.” [Torhivlya v Kharkovi u svitli periodychnoyi presy 1920-kh rokiv], Volyn Historical Notes: Collection of Scientific Papers. 7 (2011): 79 – 83. (in Ukr.)

Online publications:

“Every Girl Wants to Look Beautiful: Beauty and Women Consumption in Early Soviet Ukraine.” [“Kozhniy divchyni khochet'sya odyahtysya harno ta modno:” krasa ta zhinoche spozhyvannya v rann'oradyans'kiy Ukrayini]. Ukraina moderna. (2021). September 17. https://uamoderna.com/md/zhinki-spozhivachki-u-miskomu-prostori-radyanskoi-ukraini-1920-1930-x-rokiv-mizh-ideologieyu-ta-povsyakdennim-zhittyam

“Material World of Children in the Holodomor and What Saved Their Lives.” [Material'nyy svit ditey v roky Holodomoru ta shcho vryatuvalo yikhni zhyttya]. Holodomor Studies (2020), April 20. https://www.holodomorstudies.com/discussions/d204/

“Children are the Happiness of the Society under Construction: Children’s Goods in Soviet Ukraine.” [Dity – tse radist suspilstva, shcho buduietsia: dytiachi tovary v radianskii Ukraini], Ukraina moderna (2017), October 15. http://uamoderna.com/md/skubii

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