Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917-2017: History's Flashpoints and Today's Memory Wars

ISBN-13: 9780367333768 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str.

Myroslav Shkandrij

Opis

Four revolutionary cycles have shaped Ukrainian history over the last hundred years. This book examines the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalinism, the Second World War and the Euromaidan Revolution of 2013-14 in the light of new archival evidence and in the context of current memory wars.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Revolution, 1917-21  1. Repressed Memory: Bolshevik Accounts of the Ukrainian Revolution  Part II: Stalin’s "Second Revolution," 1929-34  2. Fabrication of Nationalist Plots by the Secret Service in Ukraine, 1929-34  3. Ukrainization, Terror and Famine: Coverage in Lviv’s Dilo and the Nationalist Press of the 1930s  4. Call to Violence: Red Terror of 1918-22 and Literary Rhetoric of 1932-34  Part III: Nationalist Revolution, 1938-45  5. The Cult of Strength: Khmelnytskyi in the Literature of Ukrainian Nationalists Literature During the 1930s and 1940s  6. The War for Carpatho-Ukraine in 1938-39 and the Contemporary Retrospective  7. The Ukrainian Underground of the 1940s in Today’s Memory Wars  Part IV: Euromaidan and War, 2013-17  8. Archival Revolution and Contested Memory: Changing Views of Stalin’s Rule in the Light of New Evidence  9. Ukrainian Intellectuals on the Euromaidan, Revolution and War with Russia: A Snapshot from 2015  10. Living with Ambiguities: Meanings of Nationalism in the Russian-Ukrainian War  11. The Landscape of Contemporary Memory

O autorze

Myroslav Shkandrij is Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.