Stepan Bandera · The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist by Rossolinski, Grzegorz -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbrevations Note on Language, Names, and Transliterations Introduction

The Person Cult, Myth, Charisma, and Rituals Ukrainian Nationalism and Integral Nationalism The OUN and Fascism Fascism, Nationalism, and the Radical Right Sacralization of Politicsand the Heroization-Demonization Dichotomy Memory, Identity, Symbol, and Denial Genocide, Mass Violence, and the Complexity of the Holocaust Documents, Interpretations and Manipulations Literature Objectives and Limitations

Chapter 1:Heterogeneity, Modernity, and the Turn to the Right

Chapter 2:Formative Years

Family, Education, Appearance,and Political Commitment Career in the OUN Worldview Conclusion

Chapter 3:Pieracki’s Assassination and the Warsaw and Lviv Trials

Pieracki’s Assassination The Ideological Dimension of Pieracki’s Assassination The First Trial of OUN Members in Warsaw The Second OUN Trial (in Lviv) Bandera and the Aftermath of the Trials Bandera in Polish Prisons Conclusion

Chapter 4:The “Ukrainian National Revolution”:Mass Violence and Political Disaster

The Beginning of the Second World War The Second Great Congressof the Ukrainian Nationalists (in Cracow) Practical Preparations for the “Ukrainian National Revolution” The “Ukrainian National Revolution” Result of the “Ukrainian National Revolution” Bandera’s Agency and Responsibility Conclusion

Chapter 5:Resistance, Collaboration, and Genocidal Aspirations

The OUN-M and the Question of Eastern Ukraine Disagreement Ukraine without Bandera The Ukrainian Police and the OUN-B The OUN-B in 1942 The UPA—Mass Violence and “Democratization” Bandera and Banderites Resistance, Further Collaboration,and the Reactivation of Bandera Conclusion

Chapter 6:Third World War and the Globalizationof Ukrainian Nationalism

The Subordination of the Greek Catholic Church The Conflict between the OUN-UPA and the Soviet Authorities Operation Rollback Displaced Persons Conclusion

Chapter 7:The Providnyk in Exile

The Opponents and Victims of Nazi Germany Bandera and Conflicts in the Organization Bandera and Western Intelligence Services Bandera’s Private Life Bandera’s Worldview after the Second World War Stashyns’kyi, Oberländer, Lippolz,and the Assassination of Bandera Conclusion

Chapter 8:Bandera and Soviet Propaganda

German-Ukrainian Nationalists Bourgeois Nationalists The Reaction of the Nationalist Underground to Soviet Propaganda Halan—Soviet Martyr and Heroic Intellectual Soviet Heroes and Monuments to the Victims of the OUN-UPA Bandera in the Late Soviet Discourse Conclusion

Chapter 9:The Revival of the Cult

Bandera’s Death and the Funeral Anticommunist Celebrations, Demonstrations, and Rituals The First Bandera Museum Historians and the Bandera Cult Conclusion

Chapter 10:Return to Ukraine

Double Propaganda The First Bandera Monument in Ukraine The Second Turn to the Right The Bandera Cult in Historiography Bandera’s Museums Bandera Streets, Plaques and Monuments Bandera in the Context of other Leader Cults

Conclusion

The Person, the Movement, and the Cult Fascism The Afterlife Inability to Mourn, Lack of Empathy, Sacralization, and Trauma

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