A laboratory of transnational history : Ukraine and recent Ukrainian historiography / edited by Georgiy Kasianov and Philipp Ther.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kasʹi︠a︡nov, H. V. (Heorhiĭ Volodymyrovych), 1961-

Ther, Philipp.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Ukraine--Historiography.

Ukraine.

Historiography.

Ukraine--History--Errors, inventions, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 310 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2009.

Summary:

For nearly a half century after World War II, any history of Ukraine written or taught there was merely a local subunit of the history of the Soviet Union. After 1991, a demand for accounts of Ukrainian history rose from both within and beyond the new country as part of the effort to legitimize the state both to its citizens and to the international community. Here historians transcend national approaches to look at Ukraine's problems in terms of cultural transfer and processes of inter-cultural exchange. Four papers describe the approach itself, with discussions on such aspects as revisiting the histories of Ukraine, and from an ethno-national to a multi-ethnic to a trans-national history. Another six papers demonstrate, with such topics as the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets in Ukrainian national discourses and in the language policy of empires, and between Hitler and Stalin during World War II. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction / Georgiy Kasianov and Philipp Ther

National versus transnational histor

"Nationalized" history : past continuous, present perfect, future / Georgiy Kasianov

Revisiting the histories of Ukraine / Mark von Hagen

From an ethnonational to a multiethnic to a transnational Ukrainian history / Andreas Kappeler

The transnational paradigm of historiography and its potential for Ukrainian history / Philipp Ther

Ukrainian history rewritten

Choice of name versus choice of path : the names of Ukrainian territories from the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth century / Natalia Yakovenko

Fellows and travelers : thinking about Ukrainian history in the early nineteenth century / Oleksiy Tolochko

The Latin and Cyrillic alphabets in Ukrainian national discourse and in the language policy of empires / Alexei Miller and Oksana Ostapchuk

Victim cinema : between Hitler and Stalin : Ukraine in World War II, the untold story / John-Paul Himka

On the relevance and irrelevance of nationalism in contemporary Ukraine / Yaroslav Hrytsak

Making of modern Ukraine : the western dimension / Roman Szporluk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789639776265

9639776262

OCLC:

227928987