Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide - The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s

This book examines the Soviet genocide in Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s, from its Marxist-Leninist roots to its subsequent cover-up and denial. The author analyzes the role intellectual elites-especially teachers-played in shaping, contesting, and inculcating the history of the genocide.

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration and Administrative Divisions
Introduction: Soviet Genocide against Ukrainians
Chapter 1. Preconditions
Chapter 2. Leadership
Chapter 3. Trial
Chapter 4. Extermination
Chapter 5. Denial
Conclusion: Aftermath
Biographical Sketches and Terminology
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Victoria A. Malko was born in Ukraine and is faculty member in the Department of History and founding coordinator of the Holodomor Studies Program at California State University, Fresno.

Summary

This book examines the Soviet genocide in Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s, from its Marxist–Leninist roots to its subsequent cover-up and denial. The author analyzes the role intellectual elites—especially teachers—played in shaping, contesting, and inculcating the history of the genocide.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria A. Malko, Malko Victoria A. Malko
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781498596800
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9680-0
• No. of pages: 398
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Ukraine, European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, c 1920 to c 1929, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Russia / General