Transformative Podcast

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Welcome to the Transformative Podcast, which takes the year 1989 as a starting point to think about social, economic, and cultural transformations on a European and global scale. This podcast is produced by the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) and its managing director Irena Remestwenski. Our patron is Philipp Ther, and we could not do it without Leonid Motz, Jannis Panagiotidis, Rosamund Johnston, Sheng Peng, and Jelena Dureinovic.
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Transformation of Ukrainian Football After the Soviet Union (Kateryna Chernii)
Episode 73
Wednesday, 3 December, 2025

What does football tell us about Ukraine's political and economic transformations after the collapse of the Soviet Union? In this episode, Kateryna Chernii (ZZF Potsdam) tells Jelena Đureinović (RECET) about football in the Soviet Union and Ukraine, the legacies of communism, the role of elites and what is happening in this sphere in the context of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Chernii reflects on the legacies of the Soviet system in football, illuminating bottom-up perspectives on the post-Soviet transformation in Ukraine. Kateryna Chernii is a research associate at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, where she also completed her PhD. Her doctoral thesis focused on the transformation process of Ukrainian football and its elites after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Her research interests include sports history, the history of transformations, and the legacies of communism.