Total wars and the making of modern Ukraine, 1914-1954 / George O. Liber.

"Between 1914 and 1954, the Ukrainian-speaking territories in East Central Europe suffered almost 15 million "excess deaths" as well as numerous large-scale evacuations and forced population transfers. These losses were the devastating consequences of the two world wars, revolutions,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Liber, George (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Ukrainian-Speaking Provinces before the Great War
  • Part One. The First Total War and Its Aftershocks
  • 2. The First World War and Imperial Convulsions
  • 3. Political Collapse, Revolutions, and Social Upheavals, 1917-1923
  • 4. The Ukrainian Movements in Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1939
  • Part Two. The Second Total War: Social Engineering
  • 5. Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s: Managed Diversity
  • 6. Hypercentralization, Industrialization, and the Grain Front, 1927-1934
  • 7. Hypercentralization and the Political/Cultural Fronts, 1929-1941
  • Part Three. The Third Total War and Its Consequences
  • 8. The Second World War: The Killing Fields
  • 9. Stalin's Ukraine, 1945-1954
  • Conclusion.