Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present. Each document is followed by an essay written by an expert on the period, and a conversational piece touching on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. In this ground-breaking collection, Ukraine's history is sensitively accounted for by scholars inviting the readers to revisit the country's history and culture.
Author(s): Olena Palko, Manuel Férez Gil
Series: New Europes | 1
Edition: 1
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Year: 2023
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF | Full TOC
Pages: 403
Tags: History; Culture; Identity; War; Memory Culture; Cultural History; Eastern European History; Social History; History of the 20th Century
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Timeline of Ukrainian History
Foreword. Where is Ukraine?
Introduction. Ukraine’s Many Faces
Notes
I. Modernity at the Crossroads of Empires
Primary Sources
Ukrainian Draft Treaty of 1654
To My Fellow‐Countrymen, In Ukraine and Not in Ukraine, Living, Dead and as Yet Unborn
Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Entry to Kyiv in 1649 (1912)
Conversation Pieces
Revealing Pan‐Slavic Russian Imperialism
Works Cited
Ukrainian History through Literature
Works Cited
Analytical Articles
Between East and West: Understanding Early Modern Ukraine
Selected Bibliography
Between Empires: Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century
Selected Bibliography
Jews in Habsburg Galicia: Challenges of Modernity
Economic Life and Opportunities
Mass Migration
The Social Transformation of Judaism in Galicia
Jews in the Galician Political Context
The Development of Modern Jewish Culture
The End of Galicia
Selected Bibliography
Grain, Coal, and Gas. Ukraine’s Economy since the Eighteenth Century
Imperialism and Economy
Grain
Coal
Natural Gas
Conclusion and Afterthoughts
Notes
Selected Bibliography
II. Ukrainian Selfhood in the Soviet Era
Primary Sources
Ukrainian Declaration of Independence (1918)
Letter from the Collective Farmer Mykola Reva to Joseph Stalin about the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine
Fedir Krychevsky, Life Triptych (1925)
Conversation Pieces
Ukraine: Between Empires and National Self‐Determination
Works Cited
Analytical Articles
The Ukrainian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, and the Inertia of Empire
Imagining a Ukrainian National Space in the 19th Century
The February Revolution: Defining the Boundaries of the Nation
Bolshevik Mental Geographies and the Challenge of the National Struggle
Soviet Ukraine: An Antidote to Nationalism or a Reactionary Fantasy?
Did Lenin Create Ukraine?
Notes
Selected Bibliography
The Territory of Ukraine and Its History
Border Agreements in the Back Rooms of the Party andStateLeadership
Western Expansion in the Course of the Second World War
Crimea and its Historical Belonging
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Constructing Ethnic Identities in Early Soviet Ukraine
The Soviet Minorities Experiment
The Criteria for Ethnicity
Motives Behind Ethnic Identification
Unravelling the Soviet Dilemma
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Street Children in Early Soviet Odesa
Genesis
Multiple Structural Poses
Teetering Forward
Overlapping Competencies
The Promise of Collectivism
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Selfhood and Statehood in Interwar Ukraine: Inventing the “New Man”
Spaces
Practices
Memory
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Stalinism and The Holodomor
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Search of Ancestry, Belonging, and Identity
Brief Overview of Historical Context
“Homecoming” Pilgrimage as a Means of Forging Identity
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Crimean Tatars: Claiming the Homeland
Deportation
A Point of no Return?
Return
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
III. Sovereignty Regained: Ukraine in the Post‐Soviet Age
Primary Sources
Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (1990)
Kyiv, July 16, 1990
I. Self‐Determination of the Ukrainian Nation
II. Rule of the People
III. State Power
IV. Citizenship of the Ukrainian SSR
V. Territorial Supremacy
VI. Economic Independence
VII. Environmental Safety
VIII. Cultural Development
IX. External and Internal Security
X. International Relations
Home is still possible there...
Matvey Vaisberg, The Wall [Stina] (2014)
Conversation Pieces
Between the Holodomor and Euromaidan: In Search of Contemporary Ukrainian National Identity
Works cited
Ukraine: Between National Security and the Rule of Law
Works cited
Analytical Articles
Society in Turbulent Times: The Impact of War on Ukraine
Ukrainian Ambivalence
The Flickering War
Nation‐Building to the Sound of Sirens
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Competing Identities of Ukraine’s Russian Speakers
Making Sense of People Speaking Russian
Competing Identifications of Russian‐Speakers
Explaining the Low Salience of Russian‐Speaking Identity
Acknowledgment
Notes
Selected Bibliography
The Donbas: A Region and a Myth
1. Territory and History
2. Languages and Identity
3. Separatism and Beyond
4. Re‑Imagining Ukrainian Donbas
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Towards Gender Equality in the Ukrainian Society
The Women's Movement in Ukraine: A Brief History of Visibility
Ukraine's International and National Obligations toEnsureGenderEquality
Successes of the Ukrainian Women's Feminist Movement inBuildingGenderEquality
Selected Bibliography
The Art of Misunderstanding
Notes
Selected Bibliography
The Territory Resists the Map
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Afterword. Let Ukraine Speak
Integrating Scholarship on Ukraine into Classroom Syllabi
Where to Begin? Putting Ukraine on Students’ Mental Maps
General Historical Overviews of Ukraine
Understanding Russia’s War on Ukraine in Historical andContemporaryPerspective
Highlighting 20th Century Ukraine in European History Courses
Ukraine’s 1917 and the Formation of the Soviet Union
The Interwar Period
WWII, the German Occupation, and the Holocaust
Postwar Ukraine and Chornobyl
Independence
Understanding 21st Century Ukraine
Further Resources in Lieu of a Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Contributing Authors