Mykhailo Kostiv participated in the Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference

On 2 October 2025, Mykhailo Kostiv, Head of the Research Department on Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes, participated in the Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference (organised by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA).

The museum representative spoke at a meeting dedicated to the history of the Holodomor. During his presentation, “The Concept of the Four Components of Soviet Genocide: The Problem of Authorship,” Mykhailo Kostiv analysed the participation of Ukrainian academics and public and political figures, in particular Roman Smal-Stotsky and Lev Dobrianskyi, in the discussion of the concept of genocide in the late 1940s and early 1950s, as well as their collaboration with the author of the term ‘genocide,’ Raphael Lemkin, in the context of exposing and condemning the crimes of the communist regime against Ukrainians.

Photo source: Dr. Laura Dean’s X page

For more detailed information on understanding the Holodomor as genocide, read the article “The first attempt to label the USSR’s policy against Ukraine as genocide.”