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The three worlds configuration was a product of Eurocentric mappings of the world to deal with the postcolonial situation that emerged after World War II. Mortgaging Third World futures to either capitalism or socialism, which was a premise of this mapping, also pointed to a future dominated by alternatives of European origin. The situation I describe as 'global modernity' refers to a post-Eurocentric modernity that has scrambled notions of space and time inherited from modernity. It is a product of modernity, and of the struggles that the idea of three worlds sought to capture, but those struggles have led to unanticipated reconfigurations globally, including the reconfiguration of capitalism that has globalised following the fall of the Second World (the world of socialisms). This article discusses some of the problems attendant upon this situation.

In the recently celebrated tercentenary of Poltava, no figure stirred greater controversy than Ivan Mazepa. Traitor in the eyes of some, national hero for others, his legacy remains deeply contested. As the Northern War came to an end in 1721 ideologists on all sides, with eyes turned toward posterity, began to craft their own versions of Mazepa the man and the political actor. Prominent among them were Feofan Prokopovich, archbishop of Novgorod, and Pylyp Orlyk, the hetman of the Ukrainian forces in exile. Their respective views turn out to be surprisingly ambivalent and less at odds than might be expected.

There exist no studies of the memory of the Great Famine of 1932-33 during the Second World War. The findings that follow largely derive from earlier research on the history of everyday life and death in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine. The main sources are publications that appeared under Nazi rule and postwar recollections of wartime visits to the region. This article also considers indirect indications for the famine's mental legacy during the war as well as a complicating factor: the creation in wartime Ukraine of still more famine, this time by the German army and the SS. Adapted from the source document.