Iuliia Skubytska

specialises in public history, oral history, the history of childhood, and human rights. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Skubytska has taught at Princeton University and Bard College. From 2020 to 2022, she also served as Director of the War Childhood Museum’s Ukrainian office.

Articles

Instrumentalizing summer camps

From the Soviet Union to Russia’s war against Ukraine

Ex-USSR youth pioneer camps – once heavily supervised yet remembered surprisingly positively – have become sites of trauma, where Ukrainian children are being deported en masse, incarcerated and re-educated. The complex legacy that Russia is exploiting encompasses infrastructure, ideology and personal memory, raising questions about the role of individuals in implementing state policy.