1st Edition
Heroes and Villains Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine
By David R. Marples
Copyright 2007
386 Pages
by
Central European University Press
386 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Certain to engender debate in the media, especially in Ukraine itself, as well as the academic community. Using a wide selection of newspapers, journals, monographs, and school textbooks from different regions of the country, the book examines the sensitive issue of the changing perspectives – often shifting 180 degrees – on several events discussed in the new narratives of the Stalin years... Read more
Preface, Acknowledgements, Chapter 1: Independent Ukraine Reviews the Past, Chapter 2: The Famine of 1932-33, Chapter 3: The OUN, 1929-1943, Chapter 4: Making Heroes: the Early Days of OUN-UPA, Chapter 5: UPA's Conflict with the Red Army and Soviet Security Forces, Chapter 6: The Ukrainian-Polish Conflict, Chapter 7: Writing New History in Ukraine, Chapter 8: Assessments, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
Biography
David R. Marples is DistinguishedUniversity Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, Canada.
