The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. In this fascinating book, Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe illuminates the life of a mythologized personality and scrutinizes the history of the most violent twentieth-century Ukrainian nationalist movement: the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Elucidating the circumstances in which Bandera and his movement emerged and functioned, Rossolinski-Liebe explains how fascism and racism impacted on Ukrainian revolutionary and genocidal nationalism. The book shows why Bandera and his followers failed?despite their ideological similarity to the Croatian Usta??a and the Slovak Hlinka Party?to establish a collaborationist state under the auspices of Nazi Germany and examines the involvement of the Ukrainian nationalists in the Holocaust and other atrocities during and after the Second World War. The author brings to light some of the darkest elements of modern Ukrainian history and demonstrates its complexity, paying special attention to the Soviet terror in Ukraine and the entanglement between Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, Russian, German, and Soviet history. The monograph also charts the creation and growth of the Bandera cult before the Second World War, its vivid revivals during the Cold War among the Ukrainian diaspora, and in Bandera's native eastern Galicia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild U Christian Schon
ISBN-13
9783838206868
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209262770
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Grzegorz Rossolinski
Publication Name
Stepan Bandera: the Life and Afterlife of a Ukra-Fascism, Genocide, and Cult
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
670 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
240mm
Item Width
168mm
Item Weight
1000g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Grzegorz Rossolinski
Country/Region of Manufacture
Germany
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