Palko offers a fascinating tour of the myriad and mercurial cultural institutions of the early Soviet Ukrainian world.

The Times Literary Supplement

Olena Palko's highly accomplished book represents a ground-breaking contribution to several fields: Soviet history, Ukrainian history and 20th-century Ukrainian and Soviet literature and culture… [It] weaves a vivid picture of a whole literary and artistic culture in a state of flux, excitement and ultimately disillusionment. It is a rare book that has so much to offer to literary scholars and historians alike

BASEES Alexander Nove Prize Committee

[Making Ukraine Soviet] is therefore a very entertaining journey through the history of Ukrainian culture during the period of consolidation of communist power over Ukraine ... this is one of the best books of the last decade as regards research on the history of Ukraine in the early communist era.

H-Ukraine

Palko's Making Ukraine Soviet represents a novel analytical study of the interwar period of Soviet Ukraine ... Palko's book will appeal to scholars of Soviet history, literature, and culture, especially those specializing in Soviet Ukraine's literary and political affairs. It may be equally attractive to a general readership familiar with the works of Tychyna and Khvyliovyi.

Canadian Slavonic Papers

[A] well-researched monograph ... [the book] permit[s] the reader to gain a nuanced understanding of the protagonists both as artists and as political figures.

History: Journal of the Historical Association

Palko's work therefore has important lessons that reach far beyond the study of the 1920s and early 1930s ... The monograph lays a solid foundation on which other scholars will hopefully build to trace how this dynamic continued to shape Ukrainian culture.

Revolutionary Russia