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Enemy archives : Soviet counterinsurgency operations and the Ukrainian nationalist movement : selections from the Secret Police Archives / edited by Volodymyr Viatrovych and Lubomyr Luciuk ; translated by Marta Daria Olynyk

Published
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Physical Description
xvii, 988 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
V'i︠a︡trovych, Volodymyr, 1977-, Luciuk, Lubomyr Y., and Olynyk, Marta D.

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Language Note
Documents translated from Russian and the Ukrainian.
Contents
Part One: The programmatic principles of the Ukrainian Liberation Movement and the political decisions of the leadership -- Chapter 1. The ideological evolution of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN), 1929-50 -- Chapter 2. Political resolutions and decisions of the OUN leadership, 1941-52 -- Part Two: The struggle of the Ukrainian Liberation Movement, 1940-50 -- Chapter 3. The formation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), tactics and training -- Chapter 4. Directives of the insurgent authorities -- Chapter 5. The OUN Security Service (SB OUN) -- Chapter 6. Other structures of the Liberation Movement -- Chapter 7. Resistance to the German occupation -- Chapter 8. The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict -- Chapter 9. The Ukrainian underground's resistance to Soviet rule -- Chapter 10. Propaganda activities of the Ukrainian underground -- Part Three: Soviet security organs and the struggle against the Ukrainian Liberation Movement, 1940-50 -- Chapter 11. Command assessments of the UPA's struggle.
Summary
"As Russia wages a twenty-first-century war against the very existence of a Ukrainian state and nation, reanimating Soviet-era propaganda that portrayed Ukrainians as Nazi collaborators and fascists, the experiences of the Ukrainian nationalist underground before, during, and after the Second World War gain new significance. While engaged in a decades-long struggle against the Ukrainian nationalist movement, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), lasting into the mid-1950s, Soviet counterinsurgency forces accumulated a comprehensive and extensive archive of documents captured from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the UPA. Volodymyr Viatrovych and Lubomyr Luciuk have curated and carefully annotated a selection of these documents in Enemy Archives, providing primary sources the Soviet authorities collected and deemed useful for better understanding their opponents and so securing their destruction, a campaign that ultimately failed. The documents seized from the insurgents and Soviet analyses of them shed light on a wide range of experiences in the underground: how the movement struggled to maintain discipline and morale, how it dealt with suspected informers, and how it resisted the ruthless Soviet state, laying the foundations for the continuing Ukrainian struggle against foreign domination. "--
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ISBN
9780228014669 (cloth)
0228014662 (cloth)
9780228015826 epdf
9780228015932 epub
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Forms
Issued also in electronic format.
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