Olena Palko

Olena Palko is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Histo-ry, University of Basel (Switzerland). She is the author of several publications on early Soviet cultural history in Ukraine. Her current project “Red Tower of Babel: Soviet minorities experiment in interwar Ukraine“ investigates the Soviet nationalities policies during the in-terwar period. She is the author of ‘Making Ukraine Soviet. Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin’ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) and a co-editor of ‘Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century‘ (MQUP, 2022)