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Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist
"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 Rossoli?ski-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, Rossoli?ski-Liebe explains how fascism and racism impacted on Ukrainian revolutionary and genocidal nationalism. The book shows w...
Der deutsch-sowjetische Krieg 1941-1945
Über die gewaltigste und opferreichste Konfrontation des Zweiten Weltkriegs: den deutsch-sowjetischen Krieg, 1941-1945. Hitlers Vernichtungskrieg zielte nicht nur auf die Zerstörung der politischen und militärischen Strukturen der Sowjetunion, sondern vor allem auf die "Eroberung von Lebensraum", und das hieß: die Vernichtung, Versklavung oder Vertreibung der sowjetischen Bevölkerung. Insgesamt rund 27 Millionen sowjetische Bürger wurden Opfer dieses verbrecherischen Feldzugs, mit dem auch der Holocaust einsetzte. Experten aus Deutschland und Russland erörtern Erfahrungen und Perspektiven zum deutsch-sowjetischen Krieg.
Gedächtnis und Gewalt
Gewalterfahrungen im östlichen Europa und der gegenwärtige europäische Erinnerungsdiskurs. Angesichts gegenwärtiger globaler wie europäischer Entwicklungen steht die europäische Gewaltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts erneut zur Debatte. Es stellt sich die Frage, in welchem Bezug diese Geschichte zum gegenwärtigen europäischen Erinnerungsdiskurs steht und wofür sie beansprucht wird. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes untersuchen historische, literarische und kulturelle Formen der Bearbeitung der gewaltvollen europäischen Vergangenheit des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven wird dabei deutlich, in welcher Weise und mit welcher Absicht die Bilder nationaler Vergangenheiten im Licht der gegenwärtigen Entwicklungen zu- und miteinander in Beziehung gesetzt werden. Im Blick auf die Gewalterfahrungen und die Flucht- und Vertreibungsbewegungen im östlichen Europa geht es den beteiligten Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus Deutschland, Polen und Frankreich dabei im Kern auch um die Frage nach der Legitimität und ethischen Stabilität einer europäischen Gemeinschaft, deren Grundlage Gewalt und Vernichtungsgeschehen sind.
Complicated Complicity
Complicated Complicity is about the forms taken, motives and spectrum of actions of European collaboration with the Nazis. State authorities, local military organizations and individual players in different countries and areas including France, Scandinavia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, Portugal and the countries of the former Yugoslavia are discussed in the context of the history of World War II, the history of occupation and everyday life and as an essential influencing factor in the Holocaust. New forms of right-wing populism, nationalism and growing intolerance of Jewish fellow citizens and minorities have made such historically sensitive studies considerably more difficult in many countries today. In this time of increasing historical revisionism in Europe, such elucidating discourse is particularly relevant.
The Unknown Eastern Front
When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Front. Their numbers were later swelled by a range of foreign volunteers so that, at the height of World War II, astonishingly one in three men fighting for the Germans in the East was not a native German. Hitler's declaration of the 'struggle against Bolshevism' reverberated throughout all of Europe - among convinced fascists as well as among non-Russian eastern Europeans seeking to regain their independence from the USSR. Many of these volunteers subsequently became involved in the atrocities of the Wehrmacht and the SS. Vilified by Hitler for their supposed failures, condemned and forgotten by their homelands for treason and collaboration, their involvement in the war has been largely ignored or swept aside by historians. Rolf-Dieter Müller here offers a fascinating new perspective on a little-known aspect of World War II.
Fascism
The word ‘fascism’ sometimes appears to have become a catch-all term of abuse, applicable to anyone on the political right, from Hitler to Donald Trump and from Putin to Thatcher. While some argue that it lacks any distinctive conceptual meaning at all, others have supplied highly elaborate definitions of its ‘essential’ features. It is therefore a concept that presents unique challenges for any student of political theory or history. In this accessible book, Roger Griffin, one of the world’s leading authorities on fascism, brings welcome clarity to this controversial ideology. He examines its origins and development as a political concept, from its historical beginnings in 1920s I...
Baltic Eugenics
The history of eugenics in the Baltic States is largely unknown. The book compares for the first time the eugenic projects of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and the related disciplines of racial anthropology and psychiatry, and situates them within the wider European context. Strong ethno-nationalism defined the nation as a biological group, which was fostered by authoritarian regimes established in Lithuania in 1926, and in Estonia and Latvia in 1934. The eugenics projects were designed to establish a nation in biological terms. Their aims were to render the nation ethnically, genetically and racially homogeneous. The main agenda was a non-democratic state that defined its population in biological terms. Eugenic policies were to regenerate the nation and to reconstruct it as a “pure” and “original” race, Such schemes for national regeneration contained strong elements of secular religion.
Heroes and Villains
Certain to engender debate in the media, especially in Ukraine itself, as well as the academic community. Using a wide selection of newspapers, journals, monographs, and school textbooks from different regions of the country, the book examines the sensitive issue of the changing perspectives ? often shifting 180 degrees ? on several events discussed in the new narratives of the Stalin years published in the Ukraine since the late Gorbachev period until 2005. These events were pivotal to Ukrainian history in the 20th century, including the Famine of 1932?33 and Ukrainian insurgency during the war years. This latter period is particularly disputed, and analyzed with regard to the roles of the ...
The Politics of Retribution in Europe
The presentation of Europe's immediate historical past has quite dramatically changed. Conventional depictions of occupation and collaboration in World War II, of wartime resistance and post-war renewal, provided the familiar backdrop against which the chronicle of post-war Europe has mostly been told. Within these often ritualistic presentations, it was possible to conceal the fact that not only were the majority of people in Hitler's Europe not resistance fighters but millions actively co-operated with and many millions more rather easily accommodated to Nazi rule. Moreover, after the war, those who judged former collaborators were sometimes themselves former collaborators. Many people bec...
