Tarnished Heroes

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0999-9
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 613 g

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Following the 2004-5 Orange Revolution, President Viktor Yushchenko embarked on an ambitious project to rehabilitate the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Following the Euromaidan Revolution and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, a more systematic effort was made to affirm these groups as a center of a new historical canonical canon. This endeavor necessitated a highly selective rendering of these organizations’ history, not least in regard to their role in the Holocaust and their systematic massacres of the Polish minority in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in 1943–44. The attempts to rehabilitate some of the OUN’s most prominent leaders – Mykola Lebed’, Roman Shukhevych, Stepan Bandera, Yaroslav Stets’ko, and others – all faced significant obstacles as newly available archival materials undermined key tenants of the state-sanctioned memory.

The book’s introduction to the intellectual history of Ukrainian nationalism and particular conditions of nation building of a stateless nation is followed by an investigation of post-Soviet memory management. The study engages the contentious issue of the taxonomy of the OUN’s ideology before concluding with a chapter on how Ukraine’s rehabilitation of this organization has been weaponized by the Russian Federation to justify its criminal war of aggression. In this war, Ukrainians defend not only their territory; their stubborn resistance is a defense of a rules-based order, democracy, fundamental human rights, and the right to self-determination. As a by-product of this is, it may also offer a way out of a memory impasse, beyond Bandera and the OUN.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rudling, Per A.

Rudling, Per Anders

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Invasion und Besatzung

Über Autor(innen)

Rudling, Per Anders
Per A. Rudling is associate professor of history at Lund University, and, since 2015, visiting senior fellow at the National University of Singapore. His articles have appeared in, among other outlets, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Carl Beck Papers, East European Jewish Affairs, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, and Nationalities Papers. In 2015, his book The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931 (2014) won the Kulczycki Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Umland, Andreas
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Dr Per A. Rudling is an Associate Professor of History and 2019-24 Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Lund University. His book The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism (Pittsburgh UP 2014) won the 2015 Kulczycki Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. His over 80 articles have appeared in, among other outlets,