Person
Maksym Snihyr is a DAAD research fellow at the Chair of Southeast and East European Studies, University of Regensburg (October 2024 – September 2025). He 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 history of migration, social history and the Romanian-Ukrainian entanglements in the interwar period
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
Artikel
- «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, no. 07, Mar. 2024, pp. 25-33, [in Ukrainian]
- «Unconscious Agents of Communism»: Identity, Solidarity and Distrust to the Holodomor refugees as a factor of (not) providing relief by Romanian state. Scientific Bulletin of the Izmail State University of Humanities, no. 67 (December) 2024, 202-207, extracted from www.visnyk.idgu.edu.ua/index.php/nv/article/view/920. ; [in Ukrainian]
- «Family tragedy at the background of Holodomor: Mihail Porohovski in the archival materials of Romanian military intelligen» (forthcoming, Ukrainian Historical Journal, 2025) [in Ukrainian]
Essays
- Stronger Together in Sereda, Ostap, Trencsényi, Balázs, Zemliakova, Tetiana and Lancereau, Guillaume. Invisible University for Ukraine: Essays on Democracy at War, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024, 86-90.
