- Summary
- "Between 1914 and 1954, the Ukrainian-speaking territories in East Central Europe suffered almost 15 million "excess deaths" as well as numerous large-scale evacuations and forced population transfers. These losses were the devastating consequences of the two world wars, revolutions, famines, genocidal campaigns, and purges that wracked Europe in the first half of the twentieth century and spread new ideas, created new political and economic systems, and crafted new identities. In Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954, George O. Liber argues that the continuous violence of the world wars and interwar years transformed the Ukrainian-speaking population of East Central Europe into self-conscious Ukrainians. Wars, mass killings, and forced modernization drives made and re-made Ukraine's boundaries, institutionalized its national identities, and pruned its population according to various state-sponsored political, racial, and social ideologies. In short, the two world wars, the Holodomor, and the Holocaust played critical roles in forming today's Ukraine. A landmark study of the terrifying scope and paradoxical consequences of mass violence in Europe's bloodlands, Liber's book will transform our understanding of the entangled histories of Ukraine, the USSR, Germany, and East Central Europe in the twentieth century."-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Liber, George, author.
- Published
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
©2016
- Locale
- Ukraine
- Contents
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Introduction
The Ukrainian-speaking provinces before the Great War
The First World War and imperial convulsions
Political collapse, revolutions, and social upheavals, 1917-1923
The Ukrainian movements in Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1939
Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s : managed diversity
Hypercentralization, industrialization, and the grain front, 1927-1934 Hypercentralization and the political/cultural fronts, 1929-1941
The Second World War : the killing fields
Stalin's Ukraine, 1945-1954
Conclusion.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-391) and index.
Introduction -- The Ukrainian-speaking provinces before the Great War -- The First World War and imperial convulsions -- Political collapse, revolutions, and social upheavals, 1917-1923 -- The Ukrainian movements in Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1939 -- Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s : managed diversity -- Hypercentralization, industrialization, and the grain front, 1927-1934 Hypercentralization and the political/cultural fronts, 1929-1941 -- The Second World War : the killing fields -- Stalin's Ukraine, 1945-1954 -- Conclusion.
