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History of Ukraine: Soviet Ukraine

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Heroes and Villains: Creating national history in contemporary Ukraine

David R Marples

Budapest: Central European University Press, 2007
ISBN 978-963-7326-98-1

The book examines the changing perspectives in contemporary Ukraine on several events pivotal to Ukrainian history in the 20th century, including the Famine of 1932-33 and Ukrainian insurgency during the Second World War.

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Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union

Roman Szporluk

Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2000
ISBN 0-8179-9542-0

The book chronicles the final two decades in the history of the Soviet Union and, focusing on the relationship between Russia and Ukraine, presents a story that is often lost in the standard interpretations of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR.

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The Ukrainian Economy. Achievements, Problems, Challenges

I. S. Koropeckyj (ed)

Cambridge MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1992
ISBN 0-916458-51-2 (cl.), 0-916458-57-1 (pb.)

A collection of papers analysing various aspects of the Ukrainian economy as it was on the eve of Ukraine's declaration of independence and the dissolution of the USSR.

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Soviet Disunion. A History of the Nationalities Problem in the USSR

Bohdan Nahaylo & Victor Swoboda

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990
ISBN 0-241-125405

This book traces the history of the national problem from the inception of the Soviet state up to the era of glasnost' and perestroika, concentrating on the relationship between Russians and non-Russians.

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Development in the Shadow. Studies in Ukrainian Economics

I. S. Koropeckyj

Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1990
ISBN 0-920862-55-1

A collection of essays, written over a ten-year period, exploring some of the issues relating to the development of Ukrainian economics under the tsarist and communist regimes.

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The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster

David R. Marples

Basingstoke - London: Macmillan Press, 1988
ISBN 0-333-46421-4 (hardcover), 0-333-48198-4 (paperback)

A detailed examination of the aftermath of the world's worst nuclear disaster, using information obtained during a fact-finding visit to the USSR in 1987 and from a wide variety of Soviet source materials.

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Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-Century Ukraine

Bohdan Krawchenko

Basingstoke & London: Macmillan Press, 1985
ISBN 0-333-36199-7 (hardcover), 0-333-44284-9 (paperback)

The book examines the effects of social and political change on the national consciousness of Ukrainian workers, peasants, the intelligentsia and political elite from the turn of the 20th century to 1972.

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Politics and Society in Soviet Ukraine 1953-1980

Borys Lewytzkyj

Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1984
ISBN 0-920862-31-4 (bound), 0-920862-33-0 (pbk.)

The book analyses Moscow's nationality policy towards the Soviet Ukrainian republic from the death of Stalin to Shcherbytsky's rule as first secretary of the Communist party in Ukraine. It also examines economic aspects, religion and religious movements in Ukraine and the Russification of Ukrainian society.

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Ukraine after Shelest

Bohdan Krawchenko (ed)

Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1983
ISBN 0-920862-26-8

A collection of essays on the successes and failures of the mission undertaken by Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972, to return Ukraine to a state of subservient 'normality' following the period of rising social unrest, cultural turmoil and national assertiveness under his predecessor, Petro Shelest.

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Ukraine in the Seventies

Peter J. Potichnyj (ed)

Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1975
ISBN 0-88962-000-8

Materials from a conference on contemporary Ukraine held at McMaster University, Canada, in October 1974, which analysed the contemporary reality in Ukraine at that time, beginning with the utilisation of natural resources and moving to problems of demography, economic, social and political questions, and the state of Ukrainian studies in the West.

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Ferment in the Ukraine. Documents by V. Chornovil, I. Kandyba, L. Lukyanenko, V. Moroz and others

Michael Browne (ed)

London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1971
ISBN 333 10148 0 (hard)

English translations of documents relating to the political trials and repressions in Ukraine in the 1960s. The documents reveal much of the thinking of Ukrainian intellectuals about social and political subjects and, in particular, about the circumstances of independent-minded and responsible individuals in the Soviet Union - called by one of the authors the 'Empire of Cogs'. Edited by Victor Swoboda under the pseudonym Michael Browne.