1st Edition

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

By Myroslav Shkandrij Copyright 2020
216 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines four dramatic periods that have shaped not only Ukrainian, but also Soviet and Russian history over the last hundred years: the revolutionary struggles of 1917-20, Stalin’s "second" revolution of 1928-33, the mobilization of revolutionary nationalists during the Second World War, and the Euromaidan protests of 2013-14. The story is told from the perspective of "insiders." It... Read more

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

Myroslav Shkandrij and Olga Bertelsen

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

Biography

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