Stepan Bandera : the life and afterlife of a Ukrainian nationalist : fascism, genocide, and cult / Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe.

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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; NOTE ON LANGUAGE, NAMES, ANDTRANSLITERATIONS; INTRODUCTION; The Person; Cult, Myth, Charisma, and Rituals; Ukrainian Nationalism and Integral Nationalism; The OUN and Fascism; Fascism, Nationalism, and the Radical Right; Sacralization of Politicsand the Heroization-Demonization Dichotomy; Memory, Identity, Symbol, and Denial; Genocide, Mass Violence, and the Complexity of the Holocaust; Documents, Interpretations and Manipulations; Literature; Objectives and Limitations

Chapter 1: HETEROGENEITY, MODERNITY, AND THE TURN TO THE RIGHT"Longue Durée" Perspective and the Heterogeneity of Ukrainian History; The Beginnings of Ukrainian "Heroic Modernity"; The Lost Struggle for Ukrainian Statehood; The Lack of a Ukrainian State and the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict; The OUN: Racism, Fascism, Revolution, Violence, and the Struggle for a Ukrainian State; The Generation Gap and the Transformation into a Mass Movement; Ethnic and Political Violence; Cooperation, Exile, and Funding; Ideology; Conclusion; Chapter 2: FORMATIVE YEARS

Family, Education, Appearance, and Political CommitmentCareer in the OUN; Worldview; Conclusion; Chapter 3: PIERACKI'S ASSASSINATION AND THE WARSAW AND LVIV TRIALS; Pieracki's Assassination; The Ideological Dimension of Pieracki's Assassination; The First Trial of OUN Members in Warsaw; The Second OUN Trial (in Lviv); Bandera and the Aftermath of the Trials; Bandera in Polish Prisons; Conclusion; Chapter 4: THE "UKRAINIAN NATIONAL REVOLUTION": MASS VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL DISASTER; The Beginning of the Second World War; The Split in the OUN

The Second Great Congress of the Ukrainian Nationalists (in Cracow)Practical Preparations for the "Ukrainian National Revolution"; The "Ukrainian National Revolution"; Pogroms, Proclamations, and National Celebrations in Lviv; Pogroms and Nationalist Celebrations in Other Western Ukrainian Localities; Letters and Leaders; Result of the "Ukrainian National Revolution"; Bandera's Agency and Responsibility; Conclusion; Chapter 5: RESISTANCE, COLLABORATION, AND GENOCIDAL ASPIRATIONS; The OUN-M and the Question of Eastern Ukraine; Disagreement; Ukraine without Bandera

The Ukrainian Police and the OUN-BThe OUN-B in 1942; The UPA-Mass Violence and "Democratization"; The UPA and Mass Violence against Poles; The UPA and the Murdering of Jews; Bandera and Banderites; Resistance, Further Collaboration, and the Reactivation of Bandera; Conclusion; Chapter 6: THIRD WORLD WAR AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF UKRAINIAN NATIONALISM; The Subordination of the Greek Catholic Church; The Conflict between the OUN-UPA and the Soviet Authorities; Operation Rollback; Displaced Persons; Conclusion; Chapter 7: THE PROVIDNYK IN EXILE; The Opponents and Victims of Nazi Germany

The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. In this fascinating book, Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe illuminates the life of a mythologized personality and scrutinizes the history of the most violent twentieth-century Ukrainian nationalist movement: the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army.Elucidating the circumstances in which Bandera and his movement emerged and functioned, Rossolinski-Liebe explains how f.

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