Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-Century Ukraine

Bohdan Krawchenko analyzes the macro-social development of Ukraine throughout the twentieth century — from the eve of the 1917 revolutions to the early 1970s. Drawing on a vast body of open data and archival sources he demonstrates how Ukrainian national consciousness emerged through the dialectic of resistance and adaptation to Soviet social realities.

The key “characters” of the book — based on the author’s doctoral dissertation defended at Oxford University — are modernization, urbanization, Soviet economic and cultural policy, and national self-determination under colonial pressure. Today’s readers, with access to a much wider range of archival sources, will find in this monograph a methodological tool for understanding themselves as part of the Ukrainian political nation.