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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 B

Author

David R Marples; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Budapest ; New York: Central European University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9789639776296

Subjects

History, Humanities