Ukraine's Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited

by Olena Palko (Editor), Manuel Férez Gil (Editor)

Overview

Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present. Each document is followed by an essay written by an expert on the period, and a conversational piece touching on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. In this ground-breaking collection, Ukraine's history is sensitively accounted for by scholars inviting the readers to revisit the country's history and culture.

With a foreword by Olesya Khromeychuk.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783732866649
Publisher:	transcript Verlag
Publication date:	08/22/2023
Series:	New Europes , #1
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	402
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Olena Palko is an assistant professor at Universität Basel. She was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia in 2017 and previously held a position of the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her first book, Making Ukraine Soviet. Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) was awarded the Prize for the Best Book in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture (2019-20) from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. Her research interests lie in the field of early Soviet cultural history and the interwar history of Eastern Europe. Manuel Férez Gil is a doctoral student at the University Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile and has taught classes and courses on the Middle East and the Caucasus at various universities in Mexico and Chile. His areas of research are the ethnic and religious minorities of the Middle East and the Caucasus. Previously, he coordinated the Jean Monnet Chair in European studies at the International University of Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Illustrations 13
Timeline of Ukrainian History 17
Foreword. Where is Ukraine? 21
Introduction. Ukraine's Many Faces 29
Ukrainian Draft Treaty of 1654 41
To My Fellow-Countrymen, In Ukraine and Not in Ukraine, Living, Dead and as Yet Unborn 45
Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Entry to Kyiv in 1649 (1912) 51
Revealing Pan-Slavic Russian Imperialism 55
Ukrainian History through Literature 61
Between East and West: Understanding Early Modern Ukraine 73
Between Empires: Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century 83
Jews in Habsburg Galicia: Challenges of Modernity 91
Grain, Coal, and Gas. Ukraine's Economy since the Eighteenth Century 101
Ukrainian Declaration of Independence (1918) 123
Letter from the Collective Farmer Mykola Reva to Joseph Stalin about the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine 129
Fedir Krychevsky, Life Triptych (1925) 131
Ukraine: Between Empires and National Self- Determination 135
The Ukrainian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, and the Inertia of Empire 149
The Territory of Ukraine and Its History 165
Constructing Ethnic Identities in Early Soviet Ukraine 175
Street Children in Early Soviet Odesa 191
Selfhood and Statehood in Interwar Ukraine: Inventing the "New Man" 205
Stalinism and The Holodomor 221
Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Search of Ancestry, Belonging, and Identity 233
Crimean Tatars: Claiming the Homeland 247
Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (1990) 267
Home is still possible there... 273
Matvey Vaisberg, The Wall [Stina] (2014) 275
Between the Holodomor and Euromaidan: In Search of Contemporary Ukrainian National Identity 279
Ukraine: Between National Security and the Rule of Law 291
Society in Turbulent Times: The Impact of War on Ukraine 299
Competing Identities of Ukraine's Russian Speakers 315
The Donbas: A Region and a Myth 331
Towards Gender Equality in the Ukrainian Society 345
The Art of Misunderstanding 357
The Territory Resists the Map 365
Integrating Scholarship on Ukraine into Classroom Syllabi 375
Contributing Authors 393

Editorial Reviews

"[This book] will interest anyone seeking basic knowledge about the country, as well as students of eastern European history more generally and senior scholars seeking to broaden their understanding of Ukrainian history and culture."

Olena Sobolieva

"[This] is a book like none other. Bold in shattering old preconceptions, sharp in analytical observations, and expertly written, it represents a long-anticipated and ground-breaking intellectual endeavor explaining Ukraine in its full complexity."

Ruslana Bovhyria

"Der Band Ist allen zu empfehlen, die sich für die ukrainische Geschichte und Gegenwart interessieren und schon einige gesicherte Grundkenntnisse besitzen."

Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk