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Title Enemy archives : Soviet counterinsurgency operations and the Ukrainian nationalist movement : selections from the Secret Police Archives / edited by Volodymyr Viatrovych and Lubomyr Luciuk ; translated by Marta Daria Olynyk
Published Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 988 pages) : illustrations, color maps
Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- The Programmatic Principles of the Ukrainian Liberation Movement and the Political Decisions of the Leadership -- The Ideological Evolution of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), 1929-50 -- Political Resolutions and Decisions of the OUN Leadership, 1941-52 -- The Struggle of the Ukrainian Liberation Movement, 1940-50 -- The Formation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Its Tactics and Training of Soldiers -- Directives of the Insurgent Authorities -- The OUN Security Service (SB OUN) -- Other Structures of the Liberation Movement -- Resistance to the German Occupation Authorities -- The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict -- The Ukrainian Underground's Resistance to Soviet Rule -- Propaganda Activities of the Ukrainian Underground -- The Soviet Security Organs and the Struggle against the Ukrainian Liberation Movement, 1940-50 -- Command Assessments of the UPA's Struggle -- Glossary -- Index
Summary "As Russia wages a twenty-first-century war against the very existence of a Ukrainian state and nation, reanimating Soviet-era propaganda that portrayed Ukrainians as Nazi collaborators and fascists, the experiences of the Ukrainian nationalist underground before, during, and after the Second World War gain new significance. While engaged in a decades-long struggle against the Ukrainian nationalist movement, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), lasting into the mid-1950s, Soviet counterinsurgency forces accumulated a comprehensive and extensive archive of documents captured from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the UPA. Volodymyr Viatrovych and Lubomyr Luciuk have curated and carefully annotated a selection of these documents in Enemy Archives, providing primary sources the Soviet authorities collected and deemed useful for better understanding their opponents and so securing their destruction, a campaign that ultimately failed. The documents seized from the insurgents and Soviet analyses of them shed light on a wide range of experiences in the underground: how the movement struggled to maintain discipline and morale, how it dealt with suspected informers, and how it resisted the ruthless Soviet state, laying the foundations for the continuing Ukrainian struggle against foreign domination. "-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Documents translated from Russian and the Ukrainian
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 06, 2023)
Subject Orhanizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ ukraïnsʹkykh nat︠s︡ionalistiv -- History -- Sources
Ukraïnsʹka povstansʹka armii︠a︡ -- History -- Sources
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History -- Sources
SUBJECT Orhanizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ ukraïnsʹkykh nat︠s︡ionalistiv. fast (OCoLC)fst00575690
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti. fast (OCoLC)fst00515555
Ukraïnsʹka povstansʹka armii︠a︡ fast (OCoLC)fst00601643
Subject Secret service -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources
Intelligence service -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources
Anti-communist movements -- Ukraine -- Sources
Ukrainian resistance movement, 1944-1954 -- Sources
Counterinsurgency -- Ukraine -- History -- Sources
Nationalism -- Ukraine -- History -- Sources
HISTORY / Europe / General
Anti-communist movements.
Counterinsurgency.
Intelligence service.
Nationalism.
Secret service.
Soviet Union.
Ukraine.
Genre/Form History.
Sources.
Form Electronic book
Author V'i︠a︡trovych, Volodymyr, 1977- editor.
Luciuk, Lubomyr Y., editor.
Olynyk, Marta Daria, translator
ISBN 9780228015932
0228015936
9780228015826
0228015820
Other Titles Soviet counterinsurgency operations and the Ukrainian nationalist movement : selections from the Secret Police Archives