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.”
Babi Yar as a Symbol of Holocaust Distortion in Post-Maidan Ukraine
The various forms of Holocaust revisionism and relativization have fundamentally changed throughout the former Communist bloc in the decades since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Countries such as Lithuania and Croatia have found themselves struggling to create unifying national narratives following their independence. Ukraine, which in modern times had never been an enduring independent nation-state, found itself in desperate need of foundational myths and heroes that could bind its disparate regions into a coherent whole. To that end, the government has turned to the legacy of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its offshoot the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). The violent and deeply antisemitic interwar nationalist movements were complicit in crimes against both ethnic Poles and Jews.
Disparités et variabilités des catastrophes démographiques en URSS
A large literature is now devoted to the demographic crises, experienced by the USSR between 1920 and 1947. This literature more often attempts to make a global estimate of the losses of the soviet people. In this article, we present a more precise overview of such approaches, putting the stress on the geographic disparities and the important contrasts between generations, led by these crises. For this aim, in a first part, the censuses and their comparison with incomplete data of the civil registration lead us to present a regional geography of demographic crises. Such a reconstruction is therefore used as a basis of a comparison between soviet crises and those experienced during the XIX century Russian Empire. 
In a second part, the different age structures presented in the 1897 to 1989 censuses are corrected to obtain exact annual age structures. The uses of a specific statistical method helped us to give precise reconstructions. It is therefore possible to describe in detail the future of all the generations who have experienced these critical years. Moreover, our reconstruction gives the indispensable basis of a critical study on the soviet demographic dynamic reconstitution, which have been done by rather different authors. It finally gives interesting precision on the last trends, and, especially, on the degradation of infant mortality from the 70ies.