A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 59, Heft 4, S. 1000-1001
ISSN: 0020-7020
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In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 59, Heft 4, S. 1000-1001
ISSN: 0020-7020
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 81, Heft 1
ISSN: 2222-4327
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 309-326
ISSN: 0090-5992
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 80, Heft 3
ISSN: 2222-4327
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 80, Heft 2
ISSN: 2222-4327
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 60, Heft 1, S. 162-163
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 579-604
ISSN: 1465-3923
In late February 1947, Stalin's trusted troubleshooter Lazar' Kaganovich arrived in Kiev as the Ukrainian Communist Party's new first secretary. Having served consecutively as the Soviet People's Commissar of Railroad Transport, Heavy Industry, and Construction Materials, the notoriously heavy-handed Kaganovich had earned the epithet of zheleznyi narkom ("iron minister"). His tenure at the head of the Ukrainian party organization in March–December 1947 was marked by intensified coercive intervention in the economy and ideological purges in culture and scholarship. In Ukraine, Kaganovich's brief rule is remembered primarily for his relentless attacks on the alleged remnants of "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism." In the works of post-Soviet Ukrainian historians, the 1947 crusade against "nationalism" appears as a comprehensive campaign masterminded by Stalin, planned by his envoy Kaganovich, faithfully implemented by the servile republican functionaries, and submissively endured by the terrorized Ukrainian intellectuals. Clearly, modern Ukrainian historians have adopted the traditional Western concept of Stalinism as a successful totalitarian dictatorship, in which society was no more than a passive object of an all-powerful state.
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 579-604
ISSN: 0090-5992
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 50, Heft 7, S. 1229-1244
ISSN: 1465-3427
In: Canadian Slavonic papers: an interdisciplinary journal devoted to Central and Eastern Europe, Band 40, Heft 3-4, S. 311-325
ISSN: 2375-2475
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 50, Heft 7, S. 1229
ISSN: 0966-8136
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 50, Heft 7, S. 1229-1244
ISSN: 0966-8136
In: Ukrainian voices vol. 26
Serhy Yekelchyk analyzes the uneasy post-Soviet transition in Ukrainian historical writing. He discusses the challenge of transcending not just Soviet ideological dogmas, but also the "Soviet" way of understanding historical processes and human actions. Two major factors have been influencing this transition: contacts with the Ukrainian diaspora and the "rediscovery," also facilitated by the diaspora, of long-suppressed Ukrainian historical scholarship from the early twentieth century. However, the diaspora was more than the keeper of pre-Soviet historical narratives. By the early 1990s, it had professional historians practicing modern historical approaches, which also made an impact on the Ukrainian historical scholarship. Yekelchyk explores the application of Post-Colonial theory to Ukrainian and diasporic writing on the central problem of Modern Ukrainian history, that of nation building. He also highlights new – transnational and cultural-history – approaches to the study of Ukrainian history. One of the book's most important conclusions concerns the global character of present-day Ukrainian historiography, with scholars originally from Ukraine and those of non-Ukrainian background playing an increasingly prominent role in the West, and Ukrainian-based historians actively participating in Western projects, publications, and debates.
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In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 61, Heft 3, S. 757-6110
ISSN: 0020-7020