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Title: |
Zero Point Ukraine |
| Sub-title: |
Four Essays on World War II |
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| By (author): |
Olena Stiazhkina Series edited by: Andreas Umland Translated by: Svitlana Kulinska |
| ISBN10-13: |
3838215508 : 9783838215501 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
210x150mm |
| Pages: |
294 |
| Weight: |
.384 Kg. |
| Published: |
ibidem - March 2021 |
| List Price: |
31.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
European history : Eastern Europe |
| The Western understanding of what happened in Ukraine during World War II has been shaped by historical and ideological constructs created in the Kremlin. The Ukrainian specificity has been dissolved in the concept of the â great victorious Russian peopleâ and distorted by attempts to equate Ukrainian nationalists to German Nazis, while the occupation and colonization of Ukraine by Russian Bolsheviks in the 1920s and 1930s has widely been ignored or artificially silenced. In her Four Essays on World War II, Olena Stiazhkina inscribes the Ukrainian history of the war into a wider European and world context. Amongst other aspects, she analyzes the mobilization measures on the eve of the war, reconsidering Soviet narratives. Scrutinizing the social and political processes initiated by the Bolshevik leadership in the 1920s and 1930s, Stiahhkina concludes that mobilization and militarization were integral parts of Soviet power policy. The Soviet and contemporary Russian narratives about World War II have been used to justify the Kremlinâ s policies towards democratic countries. Today, Russia remains deeply engaged in the falsification of the past, which underpins the claims of the so-called â Russian Worldâ and the ongoing war against Ukraine. Olena Stiazhkinaâ s book promotes a new, historically adequate understanding of what happened in Ukraine before, during, and after World War II. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; Essay I: World War II in the Life and Death of Ukrainians: An Attempt to Adjust the Methodological Framework; Essay II: The Regime of Continuous War: Mobilization, Militarization, and Practices of Maintaining an Undeclared State of Emergency in Soviet Ukraine From the 1920s to the 1940s; Essay III: Occupation Regimes in Ukrainian Lands: Establishment and Fall/Stabilization, Similarities and Differences; Essay IV: Ukraine in 1943–1953: Re-Sovietization and an Unexpected Turn of the Unfinished War; Abbreviations; Index. |
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"“Here you get answers that will change your knowledge both of Ukrainian history and how the ‘building of a new society’ by a totalitarian regime affected everyone, even children. This fascinating book reinforces interest not only in the history of Ukraine, but in the history of all Eastern Europe.” --
Andriy Kurkov, novelist and President of PEN Ukraine
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