Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954

Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : 9781442621442
ISBN-13 : 1442621443
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Book Synopsis Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954 by : George Liber

Download or read book Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954 written by George Liber and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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