Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine

David R. Marples (Distinguished University Professor, University of Alberta, Edmonton)

Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Central European University Press
Country
Hungary
Published
10 August 2007
Pages
386
ISBN
9789637326981

Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine

David R. Marples (Distinguished University Professor, University of Alberta, Edmonton)

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 they constitute, are they the architects of the modern independent state?

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