Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist

Fascism, Genocide, and Cult
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0684-4
Verlag: ibidem

Buch, Englisch, 670 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

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 fascism and racism impacted on Ukrainian revolutionary and genocidal nationalism. The book shows why Bandera and his followers failed—despite their ideological similarity to the Croatian Ustaša and the Slovak Hlinka Party—to establish a collaborationist state under the auspices of Nazi Germany and examines the involvement of the Ukrainian nationalists in the Holocaust and other atrocities during and after the Second World War. The author brings to light some of the darkest elements of modern Ukrainian history and demonstrates its complexity, paying special attention to the Soviet terror in Ukraine and the entanglement between Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, Russian, German, and Soviet history. The monograph also charts the creation and growth of the Bandera cult before the Second World War, its vivid revivals during the Cold War among the Ukrainian diaspora, and in Bandera's native eastern Galicia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rossolinski-Liebe, Grzegorz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikerbiographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Language, Names, and Transliterations
Introduction
1. Heterogeneity, Modernity, and the Turn to the Right
2. Formative Years
3. Pieracki's Assassination and the Warsaw and Lviv Trials
4. The "Ukrainian National Revolution": Mass Violence and Political Disaster
5. Resistance, Collaboration, and Genocidal Aspirations
6. Third World War and the Globalization of Ukrainian Nationalism
7. The Providnyk in Exile
8. Bandera and Soviet Propaganda
9. The Revival of the Cult
10. Return to Ukraine
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut of the Free University of Berlin.