Filip Slaveski (Victoria Deakin University)

Remaking Ukraine After World War II

The Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on recently declassified Soviet sources, this examines Soviet Ukraine's transition from war to 'peace' in the long aftermath of World War II, exploring the battle for land, resources and power among collective farmers, local and central Soviet authorities in reconstructing post-war Ukraine. The consequences of this battle resonate today.

Produktdetails

• New Studies in European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781108840255
• ISBN-10: 1108840256
• Artikelnr.: 59637976

Autorenporträt

Filip Slaveski is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Fellow (DECRA) at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Victoria. An historian of the Soviet period, specialising also in Eastern European and German twentieth century history, he is the author of The Soviet Occupation of Germany: Hunger, Mass Violence and the Struggle for Peace, 1945-1947 (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Battle for Land between the People and Local and
Central Soviet Authorities: 1. A brief survey of illegal appropriations of
collective farmland by local state and party officials; 2. Taking land:
officials' illegal appropriations and starving people in Raska, Bila
Tserkva and elsewhere; 3. Taking land back: the people and central
authorities' recovery of land and prosecution of local party and state
officials; Part II. The Cost of the Battle for Land to People and the
State: 4. The cost of taking land: the damages caused by illegal
appropriations of collective farmland to kolkhozniki, communities and the
state; 5. Then and now: the shaping of contemporary Ukraine in the post-war
crises; Conclusion; Appendix. Archival source locations and guide for
further research.