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The Makhnos of memory : Mennonite and Makhnovist narratives of the civil war in Ukraine, 1917-1921 [Master thesis]

By Patterson , Sean David

Book information

Publisher
[University of Manitoba]
Year
2013
ISBN
9780494957554, 0494957557
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1010 kB (1034403 bytes)
Pages
186\192
Time added
2016-03-30 20:21:54
-- 1889-1934;Mennonites -- Ukraine -- Historiograp1917-1921 -- Historiography;Historiography;MennoniMakhnoNestor Ivanovich

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This thesis examines the conflict between the military forces of Nestor Makhno and Mennonite colonists in southern Ukraine during the Russian Civil War (1918-1921) through the historical narratives found in each group’s literature. Employing a methodology derived from deconstructionist approaches to history and James Wertsch’s theory of distributed collective memory, this thesis considers the nature of each group’s historical narratives, their biases, the context of their respective productions and how these same narratives contain intimations of the other side’s perspective.  Read more...

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