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Heroes and villains : creating national history in contemporary Ukraine /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 363 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-336) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429498081 1429498080 9786155211355 6155211353 1281128937 9781281128935 2821815115 9782821815117 9786611128937 661112893X |