From the Volhynian Massacre to Operation Vistula The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict 1943–1947 Grzegorz Motyka

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Motyka, Grzegorz., Author.

Series:

Fokus (Paderborn, Germany) ; Volume 6.

FOKUS 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Volhynia massacre.

Action "Vistula".

Polish-Ukrainian conflict.

Second World War.

Local Subjects:

Volhynia massacre.

Action "Vistula".

Polish-Ukrainian conflict.

Second World War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Paderborn Brill | Schöningh 2022

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Grzegorz Motyka is a historian, political scientist and employee of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His main research interests include the issues of Polish-Ukrainian relations after 1939 and anti-communist resistance in Central Europe after 1944.

Summary:

This is the first book available in English to comprehensively address the complicated subject of Polish-Ukrainian relations during and immediately after World War II. Polish-Ukrainian relations in the twentieth century are a topic that invariably engages historians, politicians, and public opinion in Poland and Ukraine. Many valuable works have been written on the subject, but many are distorting historical truth and collective memories, sometimes making today’s mutual relations problematic. Grzegorz Motyka’s book is a careful account of the most difficult period in Polish-Ukrainian relations, beginning in 1943 with the start of the Volhynian massacre and ending with the “Vistula” action in 1947. By discussing episodes of common history in an accessible manner, Professor Motyka presents an impartial picture of Polish-Ukrainian relations, devoid of national martyrology. In extremely difficult times, it builds a bridge for mutual understanding across historical divides.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Grzegorz Motyka

Copyright page / Grzegorz Motyka

Publication Series of the Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 1 Gordian Knot. The Ukrainian Problem in the Second Polish Republic / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 2 September 1939 / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 3 From Poland’s Downfall to the Rule of Yaroslav Stetsko (1939-1941) / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 4 German “Tidying” / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 5 Bandera’s UPA – the First Operation / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 6 The anti-German Address / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 7 The anti-Polish Operation in Volhynia – the Beginning (March-June 1943) / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 8 The Ukrainian Plan of “Removing” the Poles / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 9 Anti-Polish Operation in Volhynia – Apogee of the Massacre / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 10 Polish Defence and Retaliation / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 11 The Red Insurgency / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 12 “Smash Everything. Turn it into Dust” / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 13 Volhynian Partisans / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 14 “In Eastern Lesser Poland We Have War” / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 15 The OUN and UPA’s “Polish” Orders in Eastern Galicia / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 16 The Galician Massacre / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 17 Division SS “Galizien” / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 18 Polish-Ukrainian Conflict in the Lublin Land (1943-1944) / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 19 Other Ukrainian Groups vis-à-vis the anti-Polish Operation / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 20 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi: Catechesis in a Time of Contempt / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 21 The Soviets are Approaching / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 22 The Last Massacres in Eastern Galicia / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 23 The anti-Soviet Guerilla in Western Ukraine / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 24 From the Retaliation in Pawłokoma to the Win-UPA Attack on Hrubieszów / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 25 “Repatriation” in Soviet Style / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 26 The Ukrainian Underground in Poland 1945-1946 / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 27 Operation Vistula / Grzegorz Motyka

Chapter 28 An Attempt at Taking Stock: “War within a War”, Genocide, Stalinist Ethnic Cleansing / Grzegorz Motyka

Bibliography / Grzegorz Motyka

Illustration Sources / Grzegorz Motyka.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Motyka, Grzegorz From the Volhynian Massacre to Operation Vistula

ISBN:

9783657795376

3657795375

OCLC:

1351635775

Publisher Number:

10.30965/9783657795376 DOI