Terrorists or national heroes? Politics and perceptions of the OUN and the UPA in Ukraine
Abstract This study analyzes controversies and public attitudes concerning the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and Stepan Bandera in Ukraine. The research question is: Which factors affect attitudes toward the OUN-B, the UPA and Bandera in contemporary Ukraine? This article employs comparative and regression analyses of surveys commissioned by the author and conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) in 2009 and 2013 to determine the effects of regional and other factors on attitudes toward these organizations and the OUN-B leader. The study shows that regional factors and perceptions of these organizations' involvement in mass murder were the strongest predictors of the views concerning the OUN-B, the UPA and Bandera. Their public support is strongest in Galicia and weakest in the East and the South, in particular, in Donbas and Crimea, two major conflict areas since the “Euromaidan.”
Regionalism and Multivectorism in Europe’s Borderlands: The Strange Case of Ukraine
Mikhail Molchanov continues the detailed discussion of the Ukraine crisis in Chapter 10, ‘Regionalism and Multivectorism in Europe’s Borderlands: The Strange Case of Ukraine’. He demonstrates quite conclusively that Ukraine would have been much better served economically to have joined the Russian-sponsored Eurasian Union, where there were markets for its heavy industrial product. The West has done Ukraine a serious disservice by in effect forcing it to abandon a foreign economic policy that balanced relations with both Russia and the West in favour of an either-or decision. As is the case of most of the other authors, he is pessimistic about the future of both Ukraine and of Russian relations with the West.
The Effectiveness of Two Approaches to the Teaching of High School American History
The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of studies in depth utilizing selected materials which had been developed for teaching high school American history.