Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note to Readers -- Soviet Ukraine's Administrative-Territorial Structure -- Russian, Soviet, and Ukrainian Measurements -- Maps -- Introduction -- Introduction -- 1 The Ukrainian-Speaking Provinces before the Great War -- Part One. The First Total War and Its Aftershocks -- 2 The First World War and Imperial Convulsions -- 3 Political Collapse, Revolutions, and Social Upheavals, 1917-1923 -- 4 The Ukrainian Movements in Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1939 -- Part Two. The Second Total War: Social Engineering -- 5 Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s: Managed Diversity -- 6 Hypercentralization, Industrialization, and the Grain Front, 1927-1934 -- 7 Hypercentralization and the Political/Cultural Fronts, 1929-1941 -- Part Three. The Third Total War and Its Consequences -- 8 The Second World War: The Killing Fields -- 9 Stalin's Ukraine, 1945-1954 -- Conclusion -- Archival Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.

Liber's book will transform our understanding of the entangled histories of Ukraine, the USSR, Germany, and East Central Europe in the twentieth century.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.