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.”
Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult
Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsNote on Language, Names, and TransliterationsIntroduction1. Heterogeneity, Modernity, and the Turn to the Right2. Formative Years3. Pieracki's Assassination and the Warsaw and Lviv Trials4. The "Ukrainian National Revolution": Mass Violence and Political Disaster5. Resistance, Collaboration, and Genocidal Aspirations6. Third World War and the Globalization of Ukrainian Nationalism7. The Providnyk in Exile8. Bandera and Soviet Propaganda9. The Revival of the Cult10. Return to UkraineConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex
Women and fascism
This seminal book challenges the common assumption that fascism is a misogynist movement which has tended to exclude women. Using examples from Germany, Italy and France, Durham analyses the rise of women in fascist organizations across Europe from the early twenties to the present. Unusually, however, the author focuses on British fascism and in doing so he offers valuable new perspectives on fascist attitudes to women. Offering interesting examples of women training in armed combat, and more generally as voters and members of fascist organizations, he highlights women's relationship to fascist policies on birth rate, abortion and eugenics.