Ukraine's Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Ukraine's Many Faces

Land, People, and Culture Revisited

Edited by: Olena Palko and Manuel Férez Gil
Funded by: BASEES Study Group for Minority History , URIS Ukrainian Research in Switzerland Initiative and transcript: Open Library 2023 (Politik)

Volume 1 in the series New Europes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839466643

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About this book

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.
With a foreword by Olesya Khromeychuk.

Author / Editor information

Olena Palko is an assistant professor at Universität Basel. She was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia in 2017 and previously held a position of the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her first book, Making Ukraine Soviet. Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) was awarded the Prize for the Best Book in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture (2019-20) from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. Her research interests lie in the field of early Soviet cultural history and the interwar history of Eastern Europe.
Manuel Férez Gil is a doctoral student at the University Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile and has taught classes and courses on the Middle East and the Caucasus at various universities in Mexico and Chile. His areas of research are the ethnic and religious minorities of the Middle East and the Caucasus. Previously, he coordinated the Jean Monnet Chair in European studies at the International University of Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Reviews

"The thought-provoking contributions in this volume will clarify some of the unfamiliar pages of Ukrainian history and identity. They shed light on the origins of the complex identity of Ukraine, its imperial past, the contradictions of the interwar Soviet period, and the present, showing that modern war is not accidental or caused by the sick imagination of one person. The reader has the opportunity to see in the actions of the Russian aggressor a kind of attempt to reconstruct the Soviet period of nation-building in Ukraine during the interwar period, to understand the reaction of the Ukrainian people as another attempt to protect its independence and freedom." (Olga Ryabchenko, Professor, Head of the Department of World History at the H. Skovoroda Kharkiv National University and Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge) "There is no other comparable publication on Ukraine with this specific methodological approach. Ukraine, its history and present, has to be (re)introduced to anglophone Non-Ukrainians-and this not only in the light of the ongoing Russian war of aggression against this largest country of Europe but with regard to Ukraine as a sui generis case of European-type statehood and national identity. Each of the three sections is divided into ›primary sources‹, ›conversation pieces‹ and ›analytical articles‹. A particular strength are the ›conversation pieces‹ in the three section is the didactic value of the book. This makes it also an excellent textbook for highschool and university teaching." (Stefan Troebst, Professor of East European Cultural History, Leipzig University, former Deputy Director of the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East-Central Europe, GWZO)

»[This] is a book like none other. Bold in shattering old preconceptions, sharp in analytical observations, and expertly written, it represents a long-anticipated and ground-breaking intellectual endeavor explaining Ukraine in its full complexity.«
Ruslana Bovhyria, CEU Review of Books, 4 (2024)

»[This book] will interest anyone seeking basic knowledge about the country, as well as students of eastern European history more generally and senior scholars seeking to broaden their understanding of Ukrainian history and culture.«
Olena Sobolieva, H-Net Reviews, 01.02.2024

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	13
Timeline of Ukrainian History Open Access Download PDF	17
Foreword. Where is Ukraine? How a Western Outlook Perpetuates Myths about Europe’s Largest Country Olesya Khromeychuk Open Access Download PDF	21
Introduction. Ukraine’s Many Faces Olena Palko and Manuel Férez Gil Open Access Download PDF	29
I. Modernity at the Crossroads of Empires
Primary Sources
Ukrainian Draft Treaty of 1654 A Byelorussian Copy of the Articles sent by the Cossack Envoys Samoylo Bohdanov and Pavlo Teterya on the 14th day of May, 7162 (A.D. 1654) Open Access Download PDF	41
To My Fellow-Countrymen, In Ukraine and Not in Ukraine, Living, Dead and as Yet Unborn My Friendly Epistle Taras Shevchenko Open Access Download PDF	45
Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Entry to Kyiv in 1649 (1912) Mykola Ivasiuk Open Access Download PDF	51
Conversation Pieces
Revealing Pan-Slavic Russian Imperialism Ewa Thompson and Manuel Férez Gil Open Access Download PDF	55
Ukrainian History through Literature Tamara Hundorova and Manuel Férez Gil Open Access Download PDF	61
Analytical Articles
Between East and West: Understanding Early Modern Ukraine Oleksii Sokyrko Open Access Download PDF	73
Between Empires: Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century Fabian Baumann Open Access Download PDF	83
Jews in Habsburg Galicia: Challenges of Modernity Vladyslava Moskalets Open Access Download PDF	91
Grain, Coal, and Gas. Ukraine’s Economy since the Eighteenth Century Boris Belge Open Access Download PDF	101
II. Ukrainian Selfhood in the Soviet Era
Primary Sources
Ukrainian Declaration of Independence (1918) January 9th, 1918 Open Access Download PDF	123
Letter from the Collective Farmer Mykola Reva to Joseph Stalin about the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine Open Access Download PDF	129
Fedir Krychevsky, Life Triptych (1925) Open Access Download PDF	131
Conversation Pieces
Ukraine: Between Empires and National Self- Determination Olena Palko and Manuel Férez Gil Open Access Download PDF	135
Analytical Articles
The Ukrainian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, and the Inertia of Empire Hanna Perekhoda Open Access Download PDF	149
The Territory of Ukraine and Its History Stephan Rindlisbacher Open Access Download PDF	165
Constructing Ethnic Identities in Early Soviet Ukraine Olena Palko and Roman Korshuk Open Access Download PDF	175
Street Children in Early Soviet Odesa Matthew D. Pauly Open Access Download PDF	191
Selfhood and Statehood in Interwar Ukraine: Inventing the “New Man” Oksana Klymenko and Roman Liubavskyi Open Access Download PDF	205
Stalinism and The Holodomor Daria Mattingly Open Access Download PDF	221
Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Search of Ancestry, Belonging, and Identity Iuliia Buyskykh Open Access Download PDF	233
Crimean Tatars: Claiming the Homeland Martin-Oleksandr Kisly Open Access Download PDF	247
III. Sovereignty Regained: Ukraine in the Post-Soviet Age
Primary Sources
Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (1990) Passed by the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Open Access Download PDF	267
Home is still possible there... Kateryna Kalytko Open Access Download PDF	273
Matvey Vaisberg, The Wall [Stina] (2014) Open Access Download PDF	275
Conversation Pieces
Between the Holodomor and Euromaidan: In Search of Contemporary Ukrainian National Identity David Marples and Manuel Férez Gil Open Access Download PDF	279
Ukraine: Between National Security and the Rule of Law Maria Popova and Manuel Férez Gil Open Access Download PDF	291
Analytical Articles
Society in Turbulent Times: The Impact of War on Ukraine Anna Chebotarova Open Access Download PDF	299
Competing Identities of Ukraine’s Russian Speakers Volodymyr Kulyk Open Access Download PDF	315
The Donbas: A Region and a Myth Oleksandr Zabirko Open Access Download PDF	331
Towards Gender Equality in the Ukrainian Society Tamara Martsenyuk Open Access Download PDF	345
The Art of Misunderstanding Kateryna Botanova Open Access Download PDF	357
The Territory Resists the Map Geolocating Reality and Hyperreality in the Russo-Ukrainian War Roman Horbyk Open Access Download PDF	365
Afterword. Let Ukraine Speak
Integrating Scholarship on Ukraine into Classroom Syllabi John Vsetecka Open Access Download PDF	375
Contributing Authors Open Access Download PDF	393

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 402
Keywords: History; Culture; Identity; War; Memory Culture; Cultural History; Eastern European History; Social History; History of the 20th Century

eBook

Published: July 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839466643