About
Dr. Yurii Kaparulin is a historian and legal scholar who studies Eastern Europe's history and law, with particular interests in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Human Rights, and International Сrimes.
He is the author of the book Oleksandr Riabinin-Skliarevskyi (1878-1942): An Intellectual Biography of a Historian, which reveals the background of the late Russian Empire, the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921, and Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s through the life of a repressed military officer and historian. His second current book project is titled Between Soviet Modernization and the Holocaust: Jewish Agrarian Settlements in Southern Ukraine (1924-1948).
His research has been published in The Ideology and Politics Journal; Colloquia Humanistica; Holocaust Studies: A Ukrainian Focus; City History, Culture, Society; Eastern Europe Holocaust Studies; and Ukraina Moderna.
Dr. Kaparulin is co-author of two documentary film projects, Kalinindorf (2020) and UnKnown Holocaust (2021-ongoing).
Recent publications
"The crime of genocide: Historical aspects, political discussions and memory laws in Ukraine", in Grzebyk, P., & Uczkiewicz, D. (Eds.). (2024). The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes: Challenges for Documentation and International Prosecution (1st ed.). Routledge, pp. 53-70.
"Oral History and the Holocaust – An Introduction", Eastern European Holocaust Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2024, pp. 15-23.
The ruined “New World”: Holocaust in the village of Nayvelt, in Ukraina Moderna special issue "The Holocaust in Ukraine: How the History of a Crime is (Not) Written", 2023, 34: 117-140.
