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27 - Nationalism, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocide: A View from Below

from Part III - Intersections: National(ist) Synergies and Tensions with Other Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Categories, Identities, and Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

By
Omer Bartov
Edited by
Cathie Carmichael ,
Matthew D'Auria  and
Aviel Roshwald
Cathie Carmichael
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Matthew D'Auria
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

This chapter examines the relationship between nationalism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide from the perspective of Eastern Galicia, a multiethnic and multireligious region populated for 400 years by Poles, Ruthenians, and Jews, which was transformed by the advent of nationalism from a society of never-harmonious but rarely violent interethnic coexistence into one of extreme violence. Special attention is given to the town and district of Buczacz as representative of what is now known as western Ukraine. In writing this chapter, I have drawn on the research conducted for my recent study, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz.1 But while the book provides a heavily documented narrative of events in this locality, it largely refrains from explicitly discussing the theoretical and methodological concepts that undergird it.

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BolshevismCosmopolitanismInternationalismIrish QuestionJewish QuestionMarxismPeoples Without History
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The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism , pp. 578 - 596
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Bartov, Omer, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018).Google Scholar
Bartov, Omer, Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).Google Scholar
Browning, Christopher, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (New York: HarperCollins, 1992).Google Scholar
Grabowski, Jan, Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013).Google Scholar
Gross, Jan T., Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hagen, William W., Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914–1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Himka, John-Paul, Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Klee, Ernst, Dressen, Willi, and Reiss, Volker (eds.), “The Good Old Days”: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders (New York: Free Press, 1991).Google Scholar
Pohl, Dieter, Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien 1941–1944: Organisation und Durchführung eines staatlichen Massenverbrechens (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1997).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shanes, Joshua, Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (New York: Basic Books, 2010).Google Scholar
Struve, Kai, Deutsche Herrschaft, ukrainischer Nationalismus, antijüdische Gewalt: Der Sommer 1941 in der Westukraine (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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