The future of the past : new perspectives on Ukrainian history / edited by Serhii Plokhy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plokhy, Serhii, 1957- editor.

Series:

Harvard papers in Ukrainian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Ukraine--Historiography.

Ukraine.

Historiography.

Ukraine--History--Study and teaching.

Study skills.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 506 pages : maps (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2016.

Summary:

Ukraine Finds Itself in the middle of the worst international crisis in East-West relations since the times of the Cold War, and history is once again a battleground in Russia-Ukraine relations. Can history and historical narratives be blamed for what has happened in the region, or can they show the path to peace and reconciliation and help to integrate the history of the region in the broader European context? The essays collected here help to answer these questions. They propose to rethink the meaning of Ukrainian history by venturing outside the boundaries established by the national paradigm, and demonstrating how research on the history of Ukraine can benefit from both regional and global perspectives. This volume shows how the study of Ukraine's past enhances our understanding of European, Eurasian, and world history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Towards a new narrative

Teaching Ukraine in a comparative context / Alfred Rieber

A view from the edge: borderland studies and Ukraine, 1991-2013 / Liliya Berezhnaya

National histories and contemporary historiography: the challenges and risks of writing a new history of Ukraine / Georgiy Kasianov and Oleksiy Tolochko

Part II. The transnational turn

Viewing the twentieth century through the prism of Ukraine: reflections on the heuristic potential of Ukrainian history / Andrea Graziosi

Ukraine, total wars, and the dialectics of integration and fragmentation, 1914-1953 / George Liber

Wartime occupation and peacetime alien rule: notes and materials toward a(n) (anti) (post) colonial history of Ukraine / Mark von Hagen

Ukraine and Eurasian history in the twentieth century / Hiroaki Kuromiya

Remapping the geo-body: transnational dimensions of Stepan Rudnytsʹkyi and his contemporaries / Steven Seegel

The art of shifting contexts / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Beyond Ukraine or little Russia: going global with culture in Ukraine / Mayhill Fowler

The return of the region

Galicia and Ukraine: measuring distance and writing history / Larry Wolff

Empire, nation, and in-between: Ukrainian historiography / Iryna Vushko

Children of Rusʹ: nationalist imaginations in right-bank Ukraine / Faith Hillis

History, faith, and regional identity in nineteenth-century Kyiv: father Petro Lebedyntsev as priest and scholar / Heather Coleman

Post-Soviet studies of the Cossack elite: present state of research and future tasks / Zenon Kohut

Mapping the great famine / Serhii Plokhy

Part IV. Representations of the past

History, memory, and the media / Martha Dyczok

Fighting Soviet myths: the Ukrainian experience / Volodymyr Kravchenko

Studying the early modern period and teaching / Ukrainian History in Russia / Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva

Teaching the history of Ukraine in North America / Paul Robert Magocsi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781932650167

1932650164

OCLC:

946906961

Publisher Number:

99969701533