Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary UkraineCentral European University Press, 1 janv. 2007 - 363 pages 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 published in the Ukraine since the late Gorbachev period until 2005. These events were pivotal to Ukrainian history in the 20th century, including the Famine of 1932?33 and Ukrainian insurgency during the war years. This latter period is particularly disputed, and analyzed with regard to the roles of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) and the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) during and after the war. Were these organizations "freedom fighters" or "collaborators"? To what extent are they the architects of the modern independent state? "This excellent book fills a longstanding void in literature on the politics of memory in Eastern Europe. Professor Marples has produced an innovative and courageous study of how postcommunist Ukraine is rewriting its Stalinist and wartime past by gradually but inconsistently substituting Soviet models with nationalist interpretations. Grounded in an attentive reading of Ukrainian scholarship and journalism from the last two decades, this book offers a balanced take on such sensitive issues as the Great Famine of 1932-33 and the role of the Ukrainian nationalist insurgents during World War II. Instead of taking sides in the passionate debates on these subjects, Marples analyzes the debates themselves as discursive sites where a new national history is being forged. Clearly written and well argued, this study will make a major impact both within and beyond academia." - Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria |
Table des matières
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The Famine of 193233 | 35 |
The OUN 192943 | 79 |
Making Heroes The Early Days of OUNUPA | 125 |
UPAs Conflict with the Red Army and Soviet Security Forces | 167 |
The UkrainianPolish Conflict | 203 |
Writing New History in Ukraine | 239 |
Assessments | 283 |
Conclusion | 303 |
Bibliography | 315 |
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Page xix - Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children...
Page xix - In the present convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members or the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part...
Page xx - Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). 37. Ukraine contains 10.5 million Russians, 21 percent of its total population. Calculated from Scherer, USSR Facts and Figures Annual, p. 49. vism's crimes, and they would view others' demands that they accept blame as a malicious outrage.
Page xix - Komu btiv vyhidnyi holodomor? (Kyiv: Telesyk, 2003), pp. 3-17. 4 A dissenting view is offered by political scientist Mikhail A. Molchanov, who comments on Ukraine's victimization in the past as follows: "Though denied their national state, Ukrainian aristocracy actively participated in medieval Lithuanian and Polish-Lithuanian states of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and Ukrainian clergy — in the building of the Russian Empire since the 1700s.