Remaking Ukraine after World War II - The Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power

Examines Soviet Ukraine's long transition from war to 'peace' after World War II, and the bitter struggle for land, food and power.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Filip Slaveski, Filip (Deakin University Slaveski, Slaveski Filip
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.05.2024
• EAN: 9781108794183
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79418-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 331 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, General & world history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, General and world history, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Regional, state and other local government, Regional government