Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954 / George 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, famine...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Liber, George (Author)
Corporate Author: University of Toronto. Press
Other title:De Gruyter University Press Pilot.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note to Readers
  • Soviet Ukraine's Administrative-Territorial Structure
  • Russian, Soviet, and Ukrainian Measurements
  • Maps
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 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
  • Archival Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index