Ukrainian Voices

Tracing the Roots of Terror and ViolenceWith a foreword by Dmytro Kuleba

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• Publisher: ibidem
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9783838277738
• Edition: 0

The 2013–2014 Euromaidan Revolution's call for justice, dignity, and liberty brought Ukraine, which had 'disappeared ' behind the Iron Curtain for decades after the horrors of World War II, into the world's public consciousness. Yet, the country was soon almost forgotten again. In early 2022, the rapid escalation of Putin's war on Ukraine has put the country back into the spotlight. Without knowing the country's past, one cannot understand its present. This anthology tackles the complex history of terror and violence in Ukraine – from the millionfold starvation of the Holodomor to the changing occupation regimes, from the 'Shoah by Bullets' to the Chornobyl disaster. Those ready to delve deeper into the checkered, painful history of the country will better understand Ukraine's current quest for independence, freedom, and democracy. The volume's contributors are Serhii Plokhii, Timothy D. Snyder, Anna Veronika Wendland, Anne Applebaum, Eduard Klein, Gelinada Grinchenko, Gerhard Simon, Irina Scherbakowa, Jan Claas Behrends, Karel C. Berkhoff, Kateryna Mishchenko, Klaus Wolschner, Nikolai Klimeniouk, Nikolaus von Twickel, Oksana Grytsenko, Ottmar Tra?c?, Rebecca Harms, Sebastian Christ, Sébastien Gobert, Viktoria Savchuk, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Wilfried Jilge, Christoph Brumme, and Yevhen Hlibovytsky.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface to the New Edition April 2022
• Preface
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Stalinist Repressions
• Red Famine
• Holodomor Understanding the History and Significance of the Great Ukrainian Famine
• Executed Renaissance What the Ukrainian Intelligentsia’s Fate in the USSR Can Tell Us about Our World Today
• Germans Search for Their Heritage in Declassified Ukrainian Archives
• Deportation of Crimean Tatars A Thorny Path through the Decades
• Chapter 2 Occupation Forces in the Second World War
• The Legacy of the Hitler-Stalin Pact Ukraine between Nation and Imperial Rule
• Ukraine Under Nazi Rule
• Stepan Bandera On the Historical and Political Background of a Symbolic Figure
• The Forgotten Koriukivka Massacre
• Bremen Police Officers in the Holocaust
• The Antonescu Regime and the “Jewish Question” in Romania
• Volodymyr Kolchinsky A Life Story
• Chapter 3 Remembrance and Responsibility
• Repressed Memories of the Holocaust
• Remembrance Must Go beyond the Concentration Camps
• Forced Laborers from Ukraine Destiny and Memory
• The Ukrainian Image of the Germans Thoughts on a Tragedy
• Was Ukraine a Colony?
• Chernobyl—Chornobyl A Place of Remembrance of Global Significance
• Chernobyl Disaster without an Aftermath
• The Dawn of an Open Society
• Medusa and the Jellyfish Museum
• A Successful Decommunization?
• The Ukrainian Trauma
• About the Authors