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The failure of the attempts to create a Ukrainian state during the 1917-21 revolution created a large Ukrainian emigre community in Central Europe which, due to its experience of fighting the Bolsheviks, developed a decidedly anti-Communist ideology of integral nationalism. However, during the 1920s some in the Ukrainian emigration rejected this doctrine and began to advocate reconciliation with their former enemies and return to Soviet Ukraine. This included some of the most prominent figures in the Ukrainian governments set up after 1917, for example Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, and Yevhen Petrushevych. On the basis of published and unpublished writings of the Sovietophile emigres, Christopher Gilley reconstructs and analyzes the arguments used to justify cooperation with the Bolsheviks. In particular, he contrasts those who supported the Soviet regime because they saw the Bolsheviks as leaders of the international revolution with those who stressed the apparent national achievements of the Soviet Ukrainian republic.
In addition, Gilley examines Soviet policy towards pro-Soviet emigres and the relationship between the emigres and the Bolsheviks using documents from historical archives in Kyiv. The Ukrainian movement is compared to a similar phenomenon in the Russian emigration, "Smena vekh" ("Change of Signposts"). The book contributes to the study of the era of the New Economic Policy and Ukrainianization in the Soviet Union as well as to the histories of the Ukrainian emigration in the 1920s and of Ukrainian political thought.
Contents
Acknowledgements Glossary Foreword by Frank Golczewski Introduction: Ukrainian Sovietophilism and the Problem of Smenovekhovstvo 1. Russian Smenovekhovstvo 2. The Ukrainian Emigration: Roots, Contexts and Developments 3. Volodymyr Vynnychenko and the Foreign Group of the Ukrainian Communist Party 4. Mykhailo Hrushevskyi and the Foreign Delegation of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries 5. The Change of Signposts in the Ukrainian Emigration 6. West Ukrainian Sovietophilism 7. The Immigration of East Galician Intellectuals to the Ukraine 8. Ukrainian Smenovekhovstvo and the 'Turn to the Right' Conclusions Appendix: Biographical Details of Prominent Figures in the Ukrainian National Movement and the Ukrainian Soviet Republic Bibliography
