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020    9781442649774 |q(bound)
020    1442649771 |q(bound)
020    9781442627086 |q(paperback)
020    1442627085 |q(paperback)
035    (OCoLC)ocn921235985
035    253052
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050 00 DK508.812 |b.L55 2016
100 1  Liber, George, |eauthor.
245 10 Total wars and the making of modern Ukraine, 1914-1954 / |cGeorge O. Liber.
264  1 Toronto ;Buffalo ;London : |bUniversity of Toronto Press, |c[2016]
264  4  |c©2016
300    xxxiv, 453 pages : |bmaps ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-391) and index.
505 0  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.
520    "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."-- |cProvided by publisher.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
651  0 Ukraine |xHistory |y20th century.
648  7 1900-1999 |2fast
852 0   |bstacks |hDK508.812 |i.L55 2016