Person
Maksym Snihyr is a PhD Candidate at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In his PhD project he deals with the topic of the refugees from Soviet Ukraine in Romania in the 1930s. His research interests are covering the topics of the hisotry of migrations, social history and the Romanian-Ukrainian entanglements in the interwar period. From October 1 2024, Maksym Snihyr is a Visiting Doctoral Fellow at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, University Regensburg.
Ausbildung:
2020 - ongoing - PhD in History at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018-2020 - Master in History at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy / University of Warsaw
2014-2018 - Bachelor in History at the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Beruf:
10/2023 - 06/2024 - external researcher at the Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Universität Wien
08/2023 - 02/2024 - researcher at the Researchers Facing Autocracy research group (Democracy Institute Central European University, Budapest/Vienna)
04/2022 - 06/2022 - research assistant within the framework of STIBET programme
10/2021 - 07/2023 - guest doctoral student at the Osteuropainstitut Freie Universität Berlin
Stipendien/Preise:
10/2023 - 06/2024 - Ernst Mach worldwide scholarship
10/2022 - 07/2023 - Scholarship of the House of Representatives of the State of Berlin Foundation
2022 - non-residential grant of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
05/2022 -07/2022 - Emergency grant at the Osteuropa Institut Freie Universität Berlin
2021 - Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies research grant
Forschung
Forschungsprojekt:
Movement of population and trans-border solidarity: migration of the population over the Soviet-Romanian border (1929-1940)
The research project deals with the topic of the movement of population across the Soviet-Romanian border in the 1930s. Based on the archival sources, ego documents and periodicals from Romania, Moldova and Ukraine, this project aims to establish the general attitude of the Romanian authorities, the political elite and the general population towards the movement of the population. Thousands of peasants, persecuted and/or starved, chose to flee across the Dniester River inside Romania as one of the survival strategies in the context of collectivization and the Great Famine. Some of them fled over Dniester, founding themselves in the interwar Bessarabia. Here, the refugees had to adjust to the position of the Romanian nation-state and its political elite – being both anti-Communist and nationalizing. To the Romanian officials, those refugees (the vast majority of whom came from the villages within Moldavian ASSR) posed a complicated dilemma. On one hand, the refugees were helpful in countering the propaganda work against the Communists. On the other hand, the Romanian authorities considered refugees to be more of a problem, “unconscious agents of Communism”, a possible channel for Soviet intelligence and, paradoxically, an obstacle to achieving some sort of détente with the Soviet Union.
Publikationen
Family tragedy at the Holodomor's Background: Mikhail Porokhivskyi in the archival materials of the Romanian Intelligence Service (under review) [in Ukrainian]
«There is No Need to Pull Out the Bessarabian Splinter From a Romanian Foot»: Bessarabian Question in Soviet-Romanian Relations During the Interwar Period. Acta De Historia & Politica: Saeculum XXI, (07), 2024. 25-33. https://doi.org/10.26693/ahpsxxi2024.07.025 [in Ukrainian]
