The Soviet Regime’s National Operations in Ukraine, 1929–1934

Shkandrij, Myroslav; Bertelsen, Olga

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“…Iurii Shevel'ov offered an instructive suggestion that "the NKVD considered [any] teacher a Ukrainian nationalist who, having completed a lecture in the Ukrainian language, continued to speak Ukrainian with his students after the lecture" (Shevel'ov 779). Bykovets' perfectly fit this description but he was not a member of any nationalist organization, and archival documents recently discovered in various sectoral SBU and Ukrainian state archives demonstrate that the cases that were given special code names by GPU/NKVD operatives, such as OUN, UVO and others, were fabricated by the secret police (Shkandrij and Bertelsen 2013). He was an active participant of Ukrainization, and he, like many other Ukrainian writers, was committed to the nation-building project.…”

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“…17 The UVO (Ukrainian Military Organization) was fabricated by the GPU. For a discussion, see Zolotar'ov 2007, 11, 42, 46, 201-06, 255;Shkandrij and Bertelsen 2013. were identified as Ukrainian nationalists and were isolated from society. They had to be replaced by more reliable and obedient functionaries.…”

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Regional Nationalism and Soviet Anxieties during the Great Terror in Ukraine: The Case of Mykhailo Bykovets'

Bertelsen

2016

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Abstract: This study examines Soviet nationalities policies and the elimination of Ukrainian intellectuals during the Great Terror in Ukraine by exploring the individual history of the Ukrainian literary figure Mykhailo Bykovets', one of the founders of the literary association “Pluh” (Plough) and one of the initiators of the Literary Discussion that emerged in the mid-twenties. The research explores the modus operandi of a key Soviet institution, the GPU/NKVD, and its proactive methods of the de-nationalization of Ukrainian society. Bykovets’s criminal case seems to be axiomatic of the Great Terror, exhibiting common patterns of the secret organs’ procedural and investigative tactics. Through an analysis of Bykovets’s archival file, and the themes and questions that were central to the investigation of Bykovets’s “crimes,” the study illuminates the persistent national vector of repression against the representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia during the Great Terror. Keywords: The Great Terror, Secret Police, Kharkiv, Ukrainian Intellectuals, Mykhailo Bykovets'

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Regional Nationalism and Soviet Anxieties during the Great Terror in Ukraine: The Case of Mykhailo Bykovets'

Bertelsen

2016

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The Ukrainian reading public in the 1920s: real, implied, and ideal

Shkandrij

2016

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The Archival Revolution and Contested Memory: Changing Views of Stalin’s Rule in the Light of New Evidence

Shkandrij

2014

Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal

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The article discusses the impact on Western scholarship of the opening of secret police archives in Ukraine since the 1990s. The extent of the phenomenon known as the "archival revolution" is surveyed, with special attention to the Stalin period. The archives have answered some old questions concerning the way Stalin exercised power, organized show trials, and forced people to admit to crimes they did not commit. Archival revelations have also stimulated Western researchers to consider new ways of interpreting the Soviet period as a whole.

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The Soviet Regime’s National Operations in Ukraine, 1929–1934

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Regional Nationalism and Soviet Anxieties during the Great Terror in Ukraine: The Case of Mykhailo Bykovets'

Regional Nationalism and Soviet Anxieties during the Great Terror in Ukraine: The Case of Mykhailo Bykovets'

The Ukrainian reading public in the 1920s: real, implied, and ideal

The Archival Revolution and Contested Memory: Changing Views of Stalin’s Rule in the Light of New Evidence

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