Stiazhkina Olena. Rokada: Four Essays on the History of the Second World War. KYIV: DUKH I LITERA, 2020. - 272 p. (The Second World War series)
The book Rokada: Four Essays on the History of the Second World War discusses the need for a Ukrainian perspective in the history of the war. This includes the formation of a European perspective for analysing events and the return of subjectivity to communities and people who have been appropriated by other people's historical narratives.
The first essay discusses the problems of changing the methodological optics of the study of the Second World War. The second essay reflects on the state of continuous warfare as a component of Soviet policy in the 1920s and 1930s. The third essay analyses the similarities and differences between the occupation regimes on Ukrainian lands in the late 1930s and 1940s. The fourth traces the relationship between the Soviet state and various communities after the war, when the authorities formed safeguards for all kinds of social and national solidarities.
This book is for historians, students, and anyone interested in the study of the Second World War.
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