Ukraine's Forbidden History: Memory and Nationalism

Interviews conducted across Ukraine just after collapse of USSR in 1991 throw up new perspectives on interviews with exiled Ukrainians in Bradford and Keighly between 1983 and 1985. No one view of Ukrainian nationalism emerges, and any role Ukrainians in Britain may play in the new Ukraine will be limited by a partial historical view that stopped in 1944. Explores the vital role of oral history in uncovering the realities of famine, mass execution, deportation and guerrilla warfare, and considers the part memory has played in exiled Ukrainian communities.