The Unpredictable Past? : Reshaping Russian, Ukrainian, and East European Studies / edited by Volodymyr Kravchenko and Marko Robert Stech.
| Other author | Kravchenko, V. V. (Vladimir Vasilʹevich), 1957- editor. |
| Other author | Stech, Marko R. (Marko Robert), 1961- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Toronto ; Edmonton : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2024. |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | xii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Reshaping Russian, Ukrainian, and East European Studies |
| Contents | Preface -- "Who is to blame?" "What is to be done?" and other "cursed" questions / Volodymyr Kravchenko -- Academic theories disproven in practice : how the Russo-Ukrainian War challenges western perceptions of Eastern Europe / Marko Robert Stech -- Ukrainian Studies in practice : a moment of reflection / Olga Andriewsky -- War, history, and the temptations of Russian "exceptionalism" / Heather J. Coleman -- German and Russian imperialism, East Central Europe, and the place of Ukraine / John Connelly -- Making the past "useless" / Ilya Gerasimov -- Does Eastern Europe have a history? / Tomasz Hen-Konarski -- War and history : how the current war may affect the writing of history / Yaroslav Hrytsak -- Values and identities in Ukraine and Russia : patterns of convergence and resistance / Andrii Krawchuk -- Russia's invisible hand Western historical studies on the Soviet Union / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- Inner Rus', outer Rus', and other matters in Central Europe and Eastern Europe / Paul Robert Magocsi -- Decolonizing Slavic Studies and Russia's war on Ukraine / David R. Marples -- To whom the past belongs :the history of Ukraine and the limits of area studies / Olena Palko -- Central Europe? Eastern Europe? Habsburg Europe? Where are we today? / Joseph F. Patrouch -- Decolonizing the past : an agenda for the future / Serhii Plokhii (Plokhy) -- The issue of colonialism in Ukrainian historiography, 1900s--early 1930s / Andrii Portnov and Tetiana Portnova -- Reshaping the field / Myroslav Shkandrij -- Peregiby (Excesses) of the imperial turn? / Darius Staliūnas -- History and historians in the perspective of Longue Durée : some remarks on the historiographical contexts of the war in Ukraine / Rafał Stobiecki -- Ukraine, Poland, and the challenge of the post-colonial narrative in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war -- Making Ukrainian History a Recognized Field / Frank E. Sysyn -- Decolonizing East European Studies : Thoughts on Resisting Imperial Doctrine / Tatiana Tairova (Yakovleva) -- Is There a Russian Sonderweg? : Deconstructing a Conservative Utopia / Igor Torbakov -- Russian Narratives, Ukraine, and US Right-Wing Punditry : How Kremlin Propaganda Used a 2021 Washington Think-Tank Debate / Andreas Umland -- The Role of the Historian in Wartime / Michael T. Westrate -- The Political-Technology Takeover of Russian History / Andrew Wilson -- Toward Epistemic Sovereignty : Decolonization and Ukrainian History / Serhy Yekelchyk -- Why the classics? : The Heritage of Oskar Halecki, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Malia / Maria Zadencka -- Bringing the War Back In / Andriy Zayarnyuk -- Soviet Studies in the West, the Russian Fight against America, and the Case of Ukraine / Sergei I. Zhuk. |
| Abstract | "The launch of an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022 not only caught the vast majority of Western academics studying Eastern Europe by surprise, but it vividly exposed an array of fundamental inadequacies or even outright flaws in the dominant Western viewpoints related to the study of Russia and its place in and relation to Eastern Europe's past and present. Scholars from an entire spectrum of related disciplines - from Soviet/Post-Soviet studies through more general East European studies to the specific fields of Russian and Ukrainian studies - encountered some serious challenges to the status quo of their respective fields. This collection presents essays by close to thirty prominent international scholars regarding the need to reconceptualize and redefine some of the firmly entrenched views, methods, and accepted schools of thought in the scholarly discourse and broader sphere of public discussion in the West dealing with the concepts of Russia, the history of Russia, Russian culture, and the current state of Russian society and the Russian Federation's political order."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN | 9781894865692 |
| ISBN | 1894865693 (pbk.) |
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