A NEW BOOK, DEVOTED TO UKRAINIAN NATIONALISM BEEN PUBLISHED

Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956

A newly published and one of the few books on Ukrainian nationalism in English that "examines the legacy of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists led by Yevhen Konovalets) and is the first to consider the movement's literature alongside its politics and ideology." Written by Myroslav Shkandrij who "places the ideological tenets and historical actions of the OUN within a broader socio-historical and cultural frame" and helps the foreign readers to understand the objective historical grounds of the conflict with imperialist Russia that attacks Ukraine just like the Golden Horde centuries ago invaded Kievan Rus.

Overall, the publishing priorities which to this or that extent will be covered in the informational rubric of the future "Azov's" website, as for me, should be as follows: 1) the liberation struggle against the Bolshevik invasion in 1917-1921 and the mistakes of the Ukrainian People's Republic as a successor of Pavlo Skoropadsky's Hetmanate; 2) the works of Ukrainian geopoliticians like Yurij Lypa and conservative theorists like Vyacheslav Lypynsky which I consider even more relevant today than the history of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) and OUN that might create a false impression of the ethnic conflict between Ukrainians and Russians and just help to understand better the mechanisms of the Kremlin's anti-Ukrainian propaganda; 3) the history of the statist Ukrainian tradition since Kievan Rus.

The background of all these historical expositions, I believe, should be European history and culture, as well as the wide conservative-revolutionary movement of the XXth century that offered a developed model of Europe's modernization that didn't undermine its cultural and ethnic specificity (and thus also Western philosophy in its connection to the European political tradition and culture).

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by Olena Semenyaka