Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: National Communism in Soviet Ukraine, 1918-1933 Book

Preface

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

PART ONE: From Russian Colony to Soviet Republic

I. Nationalism and Socialism in Ukraine

Marxism and the Nationality Question

Ukrainian Socialism in the Russian Empire

The Revolutions in Ukraine

The First Bolshevik Occupation of Ukraine

The Piatakov Regime

II. The Road to National Communism

Mazlakh and Shakhrai

Georg Lapchinskii and the Federalist Opposition

Ukrainian Communism: The Borotbisty

The Bolsheviks in Search of a Policy

Ukapism-The Last Soviet Party

PART TWO: Ukrainization and its Crisis

III. Oleksander Shumskyi and the Problem of Ukrainizing Soviet Ukraine

The KP(b)U and Ukrainization, 1923-1925

The Quest for National Legitimacy

Kaganovich and Shumskyi

The Campaign Against Shumskyism

The Schism in the Communist Party of Western Ukraine

IV. Mykola Khvylovyi and the Dilemmas of Ukrainian Cultural Development

The Struggle for Proletarian Culture

Red Academicism

Khvylovyi and Khvylovyism

The Vaplitans and their Work

The End of Vaplite

V. Mykhailo Volobuiev and the Problem of the Ukrainian Economy

The Problem of the Ukrainian Economy

Volobuiev and Volobujevjsm

Volobuiev's Critics

Volobuiev's Renunciation of Volobuievism

PART THREE: Soviet Ukraine Under Skrypnyk

VI. Mykola Skrypnyk and Ukrainian Communism

The Making of a Ukrainian Bolshevik

From Apparatchik to Theoretician

Skrypnyk's Theory of the Nationality Question

Skrypnyk's Pursuit of Ukrainian National Interests

Skrypnyk's Commissariat of Education

Skrypnyk and the Problem of "Linguistic Separatism"

VII. Matvii Iavorskyi and the Vicissitudes of Interpreting the Past

M.S. Hrushevskyi's Interpretation of History

The Fellow Travellers

Party Historiography in Soviet Ukraine

Matvii Iavorskyi and Soviet Ukrainian Historiography

The Campaign Against "Iavorskyism"

VIII. The Suppression of Ukrainian National Communism

The Suppression of Ukrainian National Culture

The Collectivization of Agriculture and Famine of 1933

The Fall of Skrypnyk

Conclusion

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