The failure of the attempts to create a Ukrainian state during
the 1917-21 revolution created a large Ukrainian ?migr? community
in Central Europe which, due to its experience of fighting the
Bolsheviks, developed a decidedly anti-Communist ideology of
integral nationalism. However, during the 1920s some in the
Ukrainian emigration rejected this doctrine and began to advocate
reconciliation with their former enemies and return to Soviet
Ukraine. This included some of the most prominent figures in the
Ukrainian governments set up after 1917, for example Mykhailo
Hrushevskyi, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, and Yevhen Petrushevych. On the
basis of published and unpublished writings of the Sovietophile
?migr?s, Christopher Gilley reconstructs and analyzes the arguments
used to justify cooperation with the Bolsheviks. In particular, he
contrasts those who supported the Soviet regime because they saw
the Bolsheviks as leaders of the international revolution with
those who stressed the apparent national achievements of the Soviet
Ukrainian republic. In addition, Gilley examines Soviet policy
towards pro-Soviet ?migr's and the relationship between the ?migr's
and the Bolsheviks using documents from historical archives in
Kyiv. The Ukrainian movement is compared to a similar phenomenon in
the Russian emigration, "Smena vekh" ("Change of Signposts"). The
book contributes to the study of the era of the New Economic Policy
and Ukrainianization in the Soviet Union as well as to the
histories of the Ukrainian emigration in the 1920s and of Ukrainian
political thought.
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