Shaping Identity in Eastern Europe and Russia: Soviet and Polish Accounts of Ukrainian History, 1914-1991

ISBN-13: 9781349606535 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 266 str.

Stephen Velhchenko; Stephen Valeychenko; Stephen Velychenko

Opis

The Ukraine's emergence as an independent state in 1991 was not accompanied by violence, it may be argued, due to the weak national consciousness of most of its citizens.

Spis treści

Illustrations - Introduction - PART I BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT - Nations, States and History - Ukraine as Periphery and Historiography of the Historiography - 'National History': A Pervasive Category - Russian or Soviet Historiography? - Institutions and Ideology - The Organization of Historiography - Variants of Historical Materialism - The Parameters of Interpretation - Delineating the Past - Guidelines in the USSR - Guidelines in Poland - PART II POLISH HISTORIOGRAPHY - Neoromanticism and Positivism (1914-1944) - The Major Historians - Textbooks and Popular Histories - The Imposed Continuity (1944-1982) - A New Version of the Past - Elaboration and Omission - Monographs and Articles on Ukrainian Subjects - Interwar Publications - Postwar Publications - PART III SOVIET-RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY - Degrees of Inclusion, Exclusion and Affinity - The Nations of the USSR (1914-1937) - Histories of the USSR (1937-1956) - Histories of the USSR (1956-1982) - The History of the Ukr.SSR (1948-1982) - The First Attempts - Subsequent Revisions - Deductivist Discourse and Research - Interpretations and Typologies - Monographs and Articles - CONCLUSION:POLISH AND SOVIET-RUSSIAN INTERPRETATIONS OF UKRAINIAN HISTORY - Appendix: Perestroika and Interpretation - Abbreviations - Notes - Index