Marci Shore
@marcishore
Historian, Professor, Munk School, Toronto, CA. Author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution"; "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism"; "Caviar and Ashes".
A weaving loom being used for neurological rehabilitation at the inspiringly innovative UNBROKEN Center in Lviv. #unbroken_ua
"Think" (in the imperative)--an Arendtian sign at a demonstration in Lviv against Zelensky's dismissal of Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
On the the 250th anniversary of July 4th: I took this photo in front of Vienna's Café Sperl, where for years my late friend Martin Pollack (1944-1925) did his writing. He believed deeply that we could only more forward as a society by looking at the truth of the past with eyes wide open.
Yevhen Shibalov is a linguist from Donetsk who spent 7 months in Russian captivity.
Anna Mamanova, a native of Luhansk and long-time resident of Kyiv’s Lukianivka district, describes to me what happened to her neighborhood when Russia attacked it with missiles and drones last weekend. Thank you to Kamila Orlova for making English subtitles.
Podil, Kyiv #happywall “Перемога буде скоро!” “Victory will come soon!”
After Russia’s attempts to bully embassies in Kyiv into evacuating, I’d been feeling nervous about getting on the train last week—happily another woman waiting on the platform in Chelm for the night train to Kyiv shared her emotional support dog with me.
From the Kyiv Book Arsenal, wishing a happy birthday to an unbroken city.
In Tbilisi I met these brave students, for whom the arrest of their friends has become an everyday occurrence. Here on the front steps of the university they hold signs of solidarity for Anna Phridonishvili: the day before on that spot Anna had been arrested for taking part in anti-regime protests.
Thank you to @humanrights.ca for inviting me to speak last night in their spectacular space. It was a moral boost to be with people who shared an intuition that burying children under rubble is always and everywhere evil, that human rights must be universal, a priori, and non-contingent.
I've taught European history for thirty years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we Americans have front-row seats.
Peter Loewen came across a copy of The Ukrainian Night at a hotel in San Pedro de Atacama in the Chilean desert. It's so gratifying to know that stories from Ukraine are traveling across so many borders.
Ďakujem Marine Galisovej za otázky o mojej bláznivej krajine. Vždy som vďačná za úsilie porozumieť si navzájom cez hranice. www.tyzden.sk/spolocnost/1...
I was happy to be in my original home state of Pennsylvania today for #NoKings Thank you to the organizers in Pittsburgh!
For phenomenology enthusiastics in Pittsburgh: www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/03/19/i...
For Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and all the victims of ICE. Solidarity with Minnesota. With @timothysnyder.bsky.social
Our friend the Ukrainian novelist Andriy Lyubka has made the decision to voluntarily mobilize. He is now off to join his division of the Ukrainian armed forces. Please send all possible good karma to Andriy, to his wife, Yulia, and their young children. It's long past time for the good guys to win.
I was honored to meet and moved to listen to Ali Abu Awaad, former political prisoner and Palestinian peace activist. He's been through hell and hasn't lost hope--so neither should we. www.huiaidentity.org
This is a man for whom no one else's life has any meaning at all. A terrifying illumination of pure narcissism.
For those in London, please go listen to these exceptional people and give them hugs from me.
With gratitude to my brave Belarusian translator, and with hopes of freedom for all.
Tim and I with the kind, brave, modest, and philosophically astute Ukrainian journalist Maksym Butkevych, who survived over 2 years in Russian captivity. Maksym is thinking every day about those who are still in captivity, and how to bring them home. Please help. #People1st
Zachęcam do czytania "Wojna w moim domu," nowej książki Pawła Pieniążka o trzech wojnach i o tych, którzy starają się je oswoić. Bohaterowie w Kabulu, Słowiańsku i Stepanakercie znajdują w sytuacji, gdzie są zmuszeni do udomowienia wojny, której wcale nie wybrali.
The Belarusian translation of The Ukrainian Night was declared "extremist" in Belarus, but has found good company on the shelves of a bookstore in Vilnius.