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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Terrorists or national heroes? Politics and perceptions of the OUN and the UPA in Ukraine
Contributor:
Katchanovski, Ivan
Published:
University of California Press, 2015
Published in:
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 48 (2015) 2-3, Seite 217-228
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1016/j.postcomstud.2015.06.006
ISSN:
0967-067X;
1873-6920
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
This study analyzes controversies and public attitudes concerning the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and Stepan Bandera in Ukraine. The research question is: Which factors affect attitudes toward the OUN-B, the UPA and Bandera in contemporary Ukraine? This article employs comparative and regression analyses of surveys commissioned by the author and conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) in 2009 and 2013 to determine the effects of regional and other factors on attitudes toward these organizations and the OUN-B leader. The study shows that regional factors and perceptions of these organizations’ involvement in mass murder were the strongest predictors of the views concerning the OUN-B, the UPA and Bandera. Their public support is strongest in Galicia and weakest in the East and the South, in particular, in Donbas and Crimea, two major conflict areas since the “Euromaidan.”