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Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954
George Liber (Author)
9781442627086
Paperback / softback, published 14 March 2016
416 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.71 kg
‘This book ought to be studies by citizens everywhere who seek to understand the long duration of the current Ukrainian crisis.’ Outstanding rated title. Essential addition to most library collections. ‘This volume is recommended for libraries with a strong AP history population or those libraries with a significant Ukrainian population… Students can utilize the material for research purpose.’ Outstanding rated title. Essential addition to most library collections. ‘This volume is recommended for libraries with a strong AP history population or those libraries with a significant Ukrainian population… Students can utilize the material for research purpose.’ "George O. Liber’s Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954, is a detailed, often very competent and thoughtful synthesis…At its best, Total Wars handles great complexity impressively…it is often a very useful survey of a history whose complexities need to be confronted even-handedly and also always directly." "Liber [advances] a sophisticated argument about the role of wartime violence in the shaping of a modern Ukrainian identity... This excellent book will be of interest to an academic and general audience alike." "This extensive study of forty years of Ukrainian history provides a missing link between authoritative textbooks of Ukrainian history and monographs analyzing Ukraine’s importance as a geographical flashpoint." "Liber’s landmark study paves the way to a new understanding of the intertwined histories of Ukraine, the USSR, Germany, and East Central Europe in the twentieth century."
Between 1914 and 1954, the Ukrainian-speaking territories in East Central Europe suffered almost 15 million “excess deaths” as well as numerous large-scale evacuations and forced population transfers. These losses were the devastating consequences of the two world wars, revolutions, famines, genocidal campaigns, and purges that wracked Europe in the first half of the twentieth century and spread new ideas, created new political and economic systems, and crafted new identities. In Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914–1954, George O. Liber argues that the continuous violence of the world wars and interwar years transformed the Ukrainian-speaking population of East Central Europe into self-conscious Ukrainians. Wars, mass killings, and forced modernization drives made and re-made Ukraine’s boundaries, institutionalized its national identities, and pruned its population according to various state-sponsored political, racial, and social ideologies. In short, the two world wars, the Holodomor, and the Holocaust played critical roles in forming today’s Ukraine. A landmark study of the terrifying scope and paradoxical consequences of mass violence in Europe’s bloodlands, Liber’s book will transform our understanding of the entangled histories of Ukraine, the USSR, Germany, and East Central Europe in the twentieth century.
Note to Readers Note on Ukraine’s Administrative Territorial Structure Russian, Soviet, and Ukrainian Measurements Maps Introduction 1. The Ukrainian-Speaking Provinces before the Great War PART ONE: THE FIRST TOTAL WAR AND ITS AFTERSHOCKS 2. The First World War and Imperial Convulsions 3. Political Collapse, Revolutions, and Social Upheavals, 1917–1923 4. Ukrainian Movements in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, 1918–1939 PART TWO: THE SECOND TOTAL WAR: SOCIAL ENGINEERING 5. Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s: Managed Diversity 6. Hypercentralization, Industrialization, and the Grain Front, 1927–1934 7 Hypercentralization and the Political / Cultural Fronts, 1929–1941 PART THREE: THE THIRD TOTAL WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 8 The Second World War: The Killing Fields 9 Stalin’s Ukraine, 1945–1954 Conclusion