Political leadership and Ukrainian nationalism, 1938-1989: The burden of history

Problems of Post-Communism

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-48

  Kuromiya, Hiroaki ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 14844317418     PISSN: 10758216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2005.11052191     Document Type: Review

References (44)

1. "Dve besedy s L.M. Kaganovichem" (Two Conversations with L.M. Kaganovich), Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, no. 2 (1999): 120-21. Kaganovich fondly shared this critical episode in his life with his interviewer - seventy years after the fact!
2. According to Khrushchev, Kaganovich "was fond of saying that every Ukrainian is potentially a nationalist" (Khrushchev Remembers, trans. and ed. Strobe Talbott, introduction, commentary, and notes by Edward Crankshaw [Boston: Little, Brown, 1970], P. 172).
3. Tsentralnyi derzhavnyi arkhiv hromadskykh obiednan Ukrainy (Central State Archives of the Public Organizations of Ukraine) [hereinafter, TsDAHO] (Kyiv, Ukraine), collection [hereafter, f.] 1, catalogue [hereafter, op.] 13, inquiry [hereafter, spr.] 17, archive [hereafter, ark.] 11-12.
4. Khrushchev is also known to have often visited Taras Shevchenko's grave and praised this "great Ukrainian poet, revolutionary, and democrat." See Borys Lewytzkyj, Politics and Society in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1980 (Edmonton: University of Alberta, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1984), p. 50.
5. TsDAHO, f. 1, op. 25, spr. 780, ark. 122 and 136.
6. Ibid., f. 1, op. 23, spr. 4472, ark. 28.
7. Ibid., f. 1, op. 25, spr. 1447, ark. 32.
8. Ibid., ark. 83.
9. Ibid., ark. 37 and 39.
10. For Kyrychenko, see Iu. I. Shapoval, Liudyna i systema (People and Systems) (Kyiv: Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Institute for International Relations and Politics, 1994), pp. 241-54.
11. TsDAHO, f. 1, op. 24, spr. 4265, ark. 12.
12. Ibid., f. 1, op. 24, spr. 5991. ark. 81-82.
13. His son believes that Shelest considered the Sich the ideal social system. See Iurii Shapoval, ed., Petra Shelest: "Spravzhnii sud istorii shche poperedu" (Petro Shelest: "The True Judgment of History Awaits Us") (Kyiv: Heneza, 2003), p. 750.
14. Ibid., pp. 221, 310, 651.
15. Ibid., pp. 15, 310, 714.
16. Ibid., p. 744.
17. Ibid., pp. 216 and 657. At least initially, when his power in the Kremlin was relatively strong, Shelest's predecessor M.V. Pidhornyi supported him on these issues regarding Ukraine.
18. Shapoval, Petro Shelest, pp. 423 and 652.
19. In his subsequent writings, and especially in Da ne sudimy budete. Dnevnikovye zapisi, vospominaniia chlena Politbiuro TsK KPSS (That Ye Be not Judged: Diary, Notes, and Recollections of a member of th CPSU Politburo) (Moscow: Edition Q, March 1998) (Moscow: Kramer, 1995), Shelest proved less than honest. For this point and excerpts from his original diary entries, see Mark Kramer, "Ukraine and the Soviet-Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968," Cold War International History Bulletin, no. 10: 234-47. More complete records of Shelest's diary, which is the source of Kramner's important essay, have now been published in Ukrainian translation in Shapoval, Petro Shelest.
20. In his subsequent writings, and especially in Da ne sudimy budete. Dnevnikovye zapisi, vospominaniia chlena Politbiuro TsK KPSS (That Ye Be not Judged: Diary, Notes, and Recollections of a member of th CPSU Politburo) (Moscow: Edition Q, March 1998) (Moscow: Kramer, 1995), Shelest proved less than honest. For this point and excerpts from his original diary entries, see Mark Kramer, "Ukraine and the Soviet-Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968," Cold War International History Bulletin, no. 10: 234-47. More complete records of Shelest's diary, which is the source of Kramner's important essay, have now been published in Ukrainian translation in Shapoval, Petro Shelest.
21. In his subsequent writings, and especially in Da ne sudimy budete. Dnevnikovye zapisi, vospominaniia chlena Politbiuro TsK KPSS (That Ye Be not Judged: Diary, Notes, and Recollections of a member of th CPSU Politburo) (Moscow: Edition Q, March 1998) (Moscow: Kramer, 1995), Shelest proved less than honest. For this point and excerpts from his original diary entries, see Mark Kramer, "Ukraine and the Soviet-Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968," Cold War International History Bulletin, no. 10: 234-47. More complete records of Shelest's diary, which is the source of Kramner's important essay, have now been published in Ukrainian translation in Shapoval, Petro Shelest.
22. Shelest's interview in Komsomolskaia pravda (Shapoval, Petro Shelest, p. 698).
23. Ibid., p. 754.
24. Iu. I. Shapoval, Nevyhadani istorii (Unimagined Histories) (Kyiv: Dovira, 2004), p. 278.
25. V.I. Kyiashko, ed., Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi: Spohady suchasnykiv (Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi: Recollections of His Contemporaries) (Kyiv: In Iure, 2003), p. 300.
26. Shapoval, Nevyhadani istorii, p. 262.
27. Knowledge of the Ukrainian language was, with some exceptions, a requirement for officials of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party. See Vitalii Vrublevskii, Vladimir Shcherbitskii: pravda i vymysly. Zapiski pomoshchnika: vospominaniia, dokumety, slukhi, legendy, fakty (Vladimir Shcherbytskyi: Truth and Fiction, Notes of His Aide. recollections, Documents, Rumors, Legends, Facts) (Kyiv: Dovira, 1993), p. 128. This is a valuable book by Shcherbytskyi's assistant.
28. Ibid., p. 129.
29. Ibid., p. 112.
30. Ibid., pp. 36 and 40; Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi, p. 42.
31. Ibid., pp. 36 and 40; Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi, p. 42.
32. Vrublevskii, Vladimir Shcherbitskii, pp. 204-206.
33. See ibid., pp. 212 and 215.
34. Note the special issue of Z arkhiviv VUChK-HPU-NKVD-KHB, no. 1 (2001): 65-71.
35. See May 4, 1986, report in TsDAHO, f. 1, op. 25, spr. 2994, ark. 31.
36. Vrublevskii, Vladimir Shcherbitskii, p. 211; Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi, p. 37.
37. Vrublevskii, Vladimir Shcherbitskii, p. 211; Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi, p. 37.
38. Vrublevskii, Vladimir Shcherbitskii, p. 216.
39. See "'Chtoby pokoleniia ne zabyli ob etom fakte.' Pervye dni posle chernobylskoi avarii" (So That [Future] Generations Will Not Forget About This Fact: The First Few Days After the Chernobyl Incident), Istochnik, no. 5 (1996): 93-103.
40. Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi, p. 221.
41. TsDAHO, f. 1, op. 25, spr. 2995, ark. 8-11.
42. For the last few years of his life, see Vrublevskii, Vladimir Shcherbitskii, pp. 243-53.
43. Madeleine K. Albright noted that this latter assertion "cannot be true, but the perception discourages opponents" ("How to Help Ukraine Vote," New York Times [March 8, 2004]: A19).
44. Ilya Prizel, "Ukraine's Hollow Decade," East European Politics and Societies 16, no. 2 (2002), p. 384.