
World War II as an Identity Project
Historicism, Legitimacy Contests, and the (Re-)Construction of Political Communities in Ukraine, 1939-1946
Oleksandr Melnyk(Author)
ibidem (Publisher)
Published on 27. December 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
438 pages
978-3-8382-1704-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the relationship between history, legitimacy, and violence in the building and breaking of nations and states on the territory of contemporary Ukraine during the Second World War and in its aftermath. At its center are various institutions of the Soviet state. Other states and rival political movements also enter the picture insofar as their acitivities influenced Soviet policies. Methodologically, the study shifts attention from a limited body of normative texts and their creators within the Soviet political and cultural elite to a wider array of practices, organizations, and players engaged in power struggles and production of knowledge about the past in different social domains. Specifically, it brings into focus groups not normally thought of as participants in the production of Soviet memory discourse, notably NKVD officers, Soviet archivists, Ukrainian nationalists, Nazi collaborators, and former partisans in the German-occupied territories.
The book not only demonstrates the complexity of nation-shaping processes, but also restores agency to some seemingly powerless actors.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Hannover
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
563 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8382-1704-8 (9783838217048)
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Oleksandr Melnyk
World War II as an Identity Project
Historicism, Legitimacy Contests, and the (Re-)Construction of Political Communities in Ukraine, 1939-1946
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12/2022
ibidem
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Author
Dr. Oleksandr Melnyk studied History at the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto. He held post-doctoral fellowships at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His papers have been published in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Ukraina Moderna, and The War in Ukraine's Donbas (Central European University Press 2021).
ISNI: 0000 0000 4234 1373
ISNI: 0000 0000 4234 1373
Series Editor
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
ISNI: 0000 0001 1662 6604
ISNI: 0000 0001 1662 6604
Foreword
Dr. David Marples is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
ISNI: 0000 0001 1436 7055
ISNI: 0000 0001 1436 7055