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Book SynopsisLiber's book will transform our understanding of the entangled histories of Ukraine, the USSR, Germany, and East Central Europe in the twentieth century.
Trade Review'This book ought to be studies by citizens everywhere who seek to understand the long duration of the current Ukrainian crisis.' -- Alan Kimball The Russian Review vol 76:02:2017
Table of ContentsNote to Readers Note on Ukraine's Administrative Territorial Structure Russian, Soviet, and Ukrainian Measurements Maps Introduction 1. The Ukrainian-Speaking Provinces before the Great War PART ONE: THE FIRST TOTAL WAR AND ITS AFTERSHOCKS 2. The First World War and Imperial Convulsions 3. Political Collapse, Revolutions, and Social Upheavals, 1917-1923 4. Ukrainian Movements in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, 1918-1939 PART TWO: THE SECOND TOTAL WAR: SOCIAL ENGINEERING 5. Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s: Managed Diversity 6. Hypercentralization, Industrialization, and the Grain Front, 1927-1934 7 Hypercentralization and the Political / Cultural Fronts, 1929-1941 PART THREE: THE THIRD TOTAL WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 8 The Second World War: The Killing Fields 9 Stalin's Ukraine, 1945-1954 Conclusion
