Stepan Bandera

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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 f

Title Stepan Bandera : the life and afterlife of a Ukrainian nationalist : fascism, genocide, and cult / Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Stuttgart, Germany : Ibidem-Verlag
Creation Date [2014
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content CONTENTS
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
NOTE ON LANGUAGE, NAMES, ANDTRANSLITERATIONS
INTRODUCTION
The Person
Cult, Myth, Charisma, and Rituals
Ukrainian Nationalism and Integral Nationalism
The OUN and Fascism
Fascism, Nationalism, and the Radical Right
Sacralization of Politicsand the Heroization-Demonization Dichotomy
Memory, Identity, Symbol, and Denial
Genocide, Mass Violence, and the Complexity of the Holocaust
Documents, Interpretations and Manipulations
Literature
Objectives and Limitations
Chapter 1: HETEROGENEITY, MODERNITY, AND THE TURN TO THE RIGHT"Longue Durée" Perspective and the Heterogeneity of Ukrainian History
The Beginnings of Ukrainian "Heroic Modernity"
The Lost Struggle for Ukrainian Statehood
The Lack of a Ukrainian State and the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict
The OUN: Racism, Fascism, Revolution, Violence, and the Struggle for a Ukrainian State
The Generation Gap and the Transformation into a Mass Movement
Ethnic and Political Violence
Cooperation, Exile, and Funding
Ideology
Conclusion
Chapter 2: FORMATIVE YEARS
Family, Education, Appearance, and Political CommitmentCareer in the OUN
Worldview
Chapter 3: PIERACKI'S ASSASSINATION AND THE WARSAW AND LVIV TRIALS
Pieracki's Assassination
The Ideological Dimension of Pieracki's Assassination
The First Trial of OUN Members in Warsaw
The Second OUN Trial (in Lviv)
Bandera and the Aftermath of the Trials
Bandera in Polish Prisons
Chapter 4: THE "UKRAINIAN NATIONAL REVOLUTION": MASS VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL DISASTER
The Beginning of the Second World War
The Split in the OUN
The Second Great Congress of the Ukrainian Nationalists (in Cracow)Practical Preparations for the "Ukrainian National Revolution"
The "Ukrainian National Revolution"
Pogroms, Proclamations, and National Celebrations in Lviv
Pogroms and Nationalist Celebrations in Other Western Ukrainian Localities
Letters and Leaders
Result of the "Ukrainian National Revolution"
Bandera's Agency and Responsibility
Chapter 5: RESISTANCE, COLLABORATION, AND GENOCIDAL ASPIRATIONS
The OUN-M and the Question of Eastern Ukraine
Disagreement
Ukraine without Bandera
The Ukrainian Police and the OUN-BThe OUN-B in 1942
The UPA-Mass Violence and "Democratization"
The UPA and Mass Violence against Poles
The UPA and the Murdering of Jews
Bandera and Banderites
Resistance, Further Collaboration, and the Reactivation of Bandera
Chapter 6: THIRD WORLD WAR AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF UKRAINIAN NATIONALISM
The Subordination of the Greek Catholic Church
The Conflict between the OUN-UPA and the Soviet Authorities
Operation Rollback
Displaced Persons
Chapter 7: THE PROVIDNYK IN EXILE
The Opponents and Victims of Nazi Germany
Bandera and Conflicts in the Organization
Extent 1 online resource (655 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 997011504852105171
MARC RECORDS

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