Enemy archives : Soviet counterinsurgency operations and the Ukrainian nationalist movement : selections from the Secret Police Archives / edited by Volodymyr Viatrovych and Lubomyr Luciuk ; translated by Marta Daria Olynyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

V'i︠a︡trovych, Volodymyr, 1977- editor.

Luciuk, Lubomyr Y., editor.

Olynyk, Marta D., translator.

Language:

English

Russian

Ukrainian

Subjects (All):

Orhanizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ ukraïnsʹkykh nat︠s︡ionalistiv--History--Sources.

Orhanizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ ukraïnsʹkykh nat︠s︡ionalistiv.

Ukraïnsʹka povstansʹka armii︠a︡--History--Sources.

Ukraïnsʹka povstansʹka armii︠a︡.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti--History--Sources.

Soviet Union.

Secret service--Soviet Union--History--Sources.

Secret service.

Intelligence service--Soviet Union--History--Sources.

Intelligence service.

Anti-communist movements--Ukraine--Sources.

Anti-communist movements.

Ukrainian resistance movement, 1944-1954--Sources.

Ukrainian resistance movement, 1944-1954.

Counterinsurgency--Ukraine--History--Sources.

Counterinsurgency.

Nationalism--Ukraine--History--Sources.

Nationalism.

Orhanizat͡sii͡a ukraïnsʹkykh nat͡sionalistiv.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.

Ukraine.

Genre:

History

Sources

Physical Description:

xvii, 988 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

Documents translated from Russian and the Ukrainian.

Summary:

"As Russia wages a twenty-first-century war against the very existence of a Ukrainian state and nation, reanimating Soviet-era propaganda that portrayed Ukrainians as Nazi collaborators and fascists, the experiences of the Ukrainian nationalist underground before, during, and after the Second World War gain new significance. While engaged in a decades-long struggle against the Ukrainian nationalist movement, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), lasting into the mid-1950s, Soviet counterinsurgency forces accumulated a comprehensive and extensive archive of documents captured from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the UPA. Volodymyr Viatrovych and Lubomyr Luciuk have curated and carefully annotated a selection of these documents in Enemy Archives, providing primary sources the Soviet authorities collected and deemed useful for better understanding their opponents and so securing their destruction, a campaign that ultimately failed. The documents seized from the insurgents and Soviet analyses of them shed light on a wide range of experiences in the underground: how the movement struggled to maintain discipline and morale, how it dealt with suspected informers, and how it resisted the ruthless Soviet state, laying the foundations for the continuing Ukrainian struggle against foreign domination. "-- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Part One: The programmatic principles of the Ukrainian Liberation Movement and the political decisions of the leadership

Chapter 1. The ideological evolution of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN), 1929-50

Chapter 2. Political resolutions and decisions of the OUN leadership, 1941-52

Part Two: The struggle of the Ukrainian Liberation Movement, 1940-50

Chapter 3. The formation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), tactics and training

Chapter 4. Directives of the insurgent authorities

Chapter 5. The OUN Security Service (SB OUN)

Chapter 6. Other structures of the Liberation Movement

Chapter 7. Resistance to the German occupation

Chapter 8. The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict

Chapter 9. The Ukrainian underground's resistance to Soviet rule

Chapter 10. Propaganda activities of the Ukrainian underground

Part Three: Soviet security organs and the struggle against the Ukrainian Liberation Movement, 1940-50

Chapter 11. Command assessments of the UPA's struggle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Enemy archives.

ISBN:

9780228014669

0228014662

OCLC:

1309958811