Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine

by David R. Marples

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9639776297
• ISBN13: 9789639776296
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher