Monographs
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 …
The publication contains of documents and material on the activities of ONU and UPA in Poland, which are stored in the Central Archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Poland Republic Administration in Warsaw. By virtue of the forming a joint working group in 1997 to prepare a multi-volume edition of “Ukraine and Poland in the 40s of XX century. Unknown documents from archives of special services”, it is appeared the opportunity to make publicly known the unique sources that reveal a lot important aspects of the history of the OUN and UPA.
