Monographs
The book deals with general problems of modern societies’ knowledge in the light of system – civilization methodology. Ukraine is considered as a new powerful player in Europe, whose fate is determined by objective and subjective factors in global and home development. History, politics, economics, ideology, human potential, the regional factor – these and the other determinants of civilizing development of Ukraine are analyzed in the aspect of the place and role assessment of our country in modern world order.
A new monography of Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk “Financial police of Government Ukrainian State headed by Hetman Pavlo Skoropads’ky (29 aprill – 14 december of 1918) was published.
A new monography of Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk “Documentary sources and materials to the history of a financial policy of the Ukrainian State government (April, 29th – December, 14th, 1918).” was published.
The monograph represents the results of a broad research of ethnic tensions and conflicts in contemporary Ukraine. The nature, content and dynamics of these ethnic tensions and conflicts were represented here as a part of the past Communist system’s legacy as well as the result of specific developments in demographic and social structure of Ukrainian society. Among other instrumental factors of ethnic tensions, brought under analysis, there are specific features of Ukrainian economy and politics, cultural traditions, public conscience and psychology, geopolitical and civilizational challenges of modernity, activization of ethnic communities in manifestation and advocacy of their interests in the …
This is a collection of historical-scholarly articles by the Ukrainian historian Yuri Shapoval, which were written in the last ten years. Most of these articles appeared in Ukrainian periodical publications. The book also contains earlier, unpublished materials. According to Mykola Riabchuk, the author of the introductory essay, in his articles Yuri Shapoval “successfully resists the temptation to write ‘a little about everything’. Instead, he focuses only of those topics and historical periods about which he is very knowledgeable, brilliantly so”. Intended for anyone with an interest in history.
The final, sixth, volume of a A Political History of Ukraine. The 20th Century elucidates the process of the disintegration of the Soviet system beginning from 1945 as well as the first decade of the independence of Ukraine. The volume shows the inevitability of the historically conditioned process of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and of the collapse of all its consolidating elements, including communist ideology, one – party system, “a single economic complex”, and “proletarian internationalism”. The book reconstructs the picture of the victory of the national movement and of overcoming the sharp problems of state building.
Volume Five in the series A Political History of Ukraine: The Twentieth Century, makes extensive use of documentary, primarily archival, sources to investigate the political processes in the Ukrainian emigrant community in Europe and in the Ukrainian land controlled by Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia in the period between the two world wars.
Volume 4 covers the period of the Second World War. The authors used unique archive materials and works on modern historiography to reinterpret the question of the role and place of Ukraine in the context of the prewar partnership of the two dictatorship followed by their military confrontation.
The third volume of A Political History of Ukraine: The 20th Century covers the period from 1921 to 1938. The consequences of the seventeen-year interwar period proved to be no less tragic for the Ukrainian people than the preceding age of revolutions and wars: two famines, almost uninterrupted mass repressions peaking in the years 1933 and 1937, the deportations of tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens by social and national markers. The creation of the Soviet socio-economic order as the foundation of the totalitarian political regime took place under conditions of mass political terror. At the same time substantial successes …
Volume Two in the series A Political history of Ukraine: 20the Century is focused on the events of the revolutionary period of 1917 – 1920. Utilizing extensive documentary materials, the authors reconstruct the complex and contradictory processes of carrying out social and national – liberation revolutions, which lay at the heart of the life and development of the Ukrainian nation. Their work also reveals the search for theoretical legal system models of national – state organization and the results of attempts to implement them in social practice.
Volume One of A Political History of Ukraine: The 20th Century covers events from the late 19th century to 1917. The authors painstakingly analyze the principal factors and fundamental nature of political processes in Ukraine, the ideological and theoretical achievements of Ukrainian political thought, and the role of the “Ukrainian question” in the Russian Empire. This volume deals with the political processes taking place in the western Ukrainian lands and the tendencies and distinctive features of Ukraine’s development during the revolution of 1905-1907 and in the wartime conditions of World War I.
The book is based on research in formerly inaccessible archives and other documentary sources and sheds new light on Ukraine’s history in the course of the traumatic twentieth century. The author, a prominent and authoritative Ukrainian historian, analyzes historical events on the premise that none of them occurred in isolation, and that all involve the human factor. The book contains articles about many distinguished figures and their tragic fates during the period of communist dictatorship. Using newly uncovered materials from former Communist Party archives, including the unique repositories of the Cheka – GPU – NKVD – KGB, the author recreates …
