{"product_id":"total-wars-and-the-making-of-modern-ukraine-1914-1954-paperback-softback-9781442627086","title":"Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442627086","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTotal Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGeorge Liber (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442627086\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 March 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.71 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;This book ought to be studies by citizens everywhere who seek to understand the long duration of the current Ukrainian crisis.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Alan Kimball (The Russian Review vol 76:02:2017) \u003cp\u003eOutstanding rated title. Essential addition to most library collections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;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.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Annemarie Roscello (American Association of School Librarians) \u003cp\u003eOutstanding rated title. Essential addition to most library collections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;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.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Annemarie Roscello (American Association of School Librarians) \u003cp\u003e\"George O. Liber\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eTotal Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954\u003c\/i\u003e, is a detailed, often very competent and thoughtful synthesis…At its best, \u003ci\u003eTotal Wars\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Tarik Cyril Amar (The American Historical Review, Volume 122, Issue 4, 1 October 2017) \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Sery Yekelchyk, University of Victoria (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018) \u003cp\u003e\"This extensive study of forty years of Ukrainian history provides a missing link between authoritative textbooks of Ukrainian history and monographs analyzing Ukraine\u0026amp;#x2019;s importance as a geographical flashpoint.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, Lee College (East\/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol VI, 1) \u003cp\u003e\"Liber\u0026amp;#x2019;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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Oleksandr Zaitsev, Ukrainian Catholic University (\u003cem\u003eHarvard Ukrainian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTotal Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914–1954\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote to Readers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote on Ukraine’s Administrative Territorial Structure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRussian, Soviet, and Ukrainian Measurements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaps\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Ukrainian-Speaking Provinces before the Great War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART ONE: THE FIRST TOTAL WAR AND ITS AFTERSHOCKS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The First World War and Imperial Convulsions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Political Collapse, Revolutions, and Social Upheavals, 1917–1923\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Ukrainian Movements in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, 1918–1939\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART TWO: THE SECOND TOTAL WAR: SOCIAL ENGINEERING\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s: Managed Diversity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Hypercentralization, Industrialization, and the Grain Front, 1927–1934\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Hypercentralization and the Political \/ Cultural Fronts, 1929–1941\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART THREE: THE THIRD TOTAL WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Second World War: The Killing Fields\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Stalin’s Ukraine, 1945–1954\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685308494104,"sku":"9781442627086","price":25.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/total-wars-and-the-making-of-modern-ukraine-1914-1954-paperback-softback-9781442627086","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}