Heroes and villains : : creating national history in contemporary Ukraine / / David R. Marples.

• Author: Marples, David R.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Table of Contents

Independent Ukraine reviews the past -- The famine of 1932-33 -- The OUN, 1929-43 -- Making heroes : the early days of OUN-UPA -- UPA's conflict with the Red Army and Soviet security forces -- The Ukrainian-Polish conflict -- Writing new history in Ukraine -- Assessments.