Stephan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Fascist Facism, Genocide, and Cult Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossolinski, Grzegorz, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

national hero.

collaborationist state.

history.

nationalism.

Galicia.

Soviet Union.

Bandera.

Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

Cold War.

biography.

Ukraine.

cult.

twentieth-century.

Second World War.

Local Subjects:

national hero.

collaborationist state.

history.

nationalism.

Galicia.

Soviet Union.

Bandera.

Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

Cold War.

biography.

Ukraine.

cult.

twentieth-century.

Second World War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (655 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2015

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

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

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

Summary:

"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.

"A fascinating and well-researched monograph. It is essential reading."-Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Contents:

CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; NOTE ON LANGUAGE, NAMES, ANDTRANSLITERATIONS; INTRODUCTION; The Person; Cult, Myth, Charisma, and Rituals; Ukrainian Nationalism and Integral Nationalism; The OUN and Fascism; Fascism, Nationalism, and the Radical Right; Sacralization of Politicsand the Heroization-Demonization Dichotomy; Memory, Identity, Symbol, and Denial; Genocide, Mass Violence, and the Complexity of the Holocaust; Documents, Interpretations and Manipulations; Literature; Objectives and Limitations

Chapter 1: HETEROGENEITY, MODERNITY, AND THE TURN TO THE RIGHT"Longue Durée" Perspective and the Heterogeneity of Ukrainian History; The Beginnings of Ukrainian "Heroic Modernity"; The Lost Struggle for Ukrainian Statehood; The Lack of a Ukrainian State and the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict; The OUN: Racism, Fascism, Revolution, Violence, and the Struggle for a Ukrainian State; The Generation Gap and the Transformation into a Mass Movement; Ethnic and Political Violence; Cooperation, Exile, and Funding; Ideology; Conclusion; Chapter 2: FORMATIVE YEARS

Family, Education, Appearance, and Political CommitmentCareer in the OUN; Worldview; Conclusion; Chapter 3: PIERACKI'S ASSASSINATION AND THE WARSAW AND LVIV TRIALS; Pieracki's Assassination; The Ideological Dimension of Pieracki's Assassination; The First Trial of OUN Members in Warsaw; The Second OUN Trial (in Lviv); Bandera and the Aftermath of the Trials; Bandera in Polish Prisons; Conclusion; Chapter 4: THE "UKRAINIAN NATIONAL REVOLUTION": MASS VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL DISASTER; The Beginning of the Second World War; The Split in the OUN

The Second Great Congress of the Ukrainian Nationalists (in Cracow)Practical Preparations for the "Ukrainian National Revolution"; The "Ukrainian National Revolution"; Pogroms, Proclamations, and National Celebrations in Lviv; Pogroms and Nationalist Celebrations in Other Western Ukrainian Localities; Letters and Leaders; Result of the "Ukrainian National Revolution"; Bandera's Agency and Responsibility; Conclusion; Chapter 5: RESISTANCE, COLLABORATION, AND GENOCIDAL ASPIRATIONS; The OUN-M and the Question of Eastern Ukraine; Disagreement; Ukraine without Bandera

The Ukrainian Police and the OUN-BThe OUN-B in 1942; The UPA-Mass Violence and "Democratization"; The UPA and Mass Violence against Poles; The UPA and the Murdering of Jews; Bandera and Banderites; Resistance, Further Collaboration, and the Reactivation of Bandera; Conclusion; Chapter 6: THIRD WORLD WAR AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF UKRAINIAN NATIONALISM; The Subordination of the Greek Catholic Church; The Conflict between the OUN-UPA and the Soviet Authorities; Operation Rollback; Displaced Persons; Conclusion; Chapter 7: THE PROVIDNYK IN EXILE; The Opponents and Victims of Nazi Germany

Bandera and Conflicts in the Organization

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783838266848

3838266846

Publisher Number:

9783838266848