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Terrorists or national heroes? Politics and perceptions of the OUN and the UPA in Ukraine
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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.”
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“The mass murder of Poles by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Stepan Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) during the Nazi occupation of Volhynia in Western Ukraine in 1943 became an important political issue in Poland and Ukraine after the collapse of communism in these countries (see, for example, Katchanovski, 2015; Marples, 2010).”
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- Authors
- Katchanovski, I.
- Affiliations
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Katchanovski, Ivan
- ORCID
- Katchanovski, Ivan
- Venue
- Communist and Post-Communist Studies
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2015-06
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 2-3
- Pages
- 217-228
- ISSN
- 0967-067X (ISSN-L)
- 1873-6920
- OpenAlex
- W836102418
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 15 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4
- FWCI
- 7.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Communist and Post-Communist Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Central European national history
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Soviet and Russian History
- Keywords
- Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Stepan Bandera, political violence, mass murder, regional differences in attitudes, Galicia, Donbas, Crimea, Euromaidan, Ukrainian politics
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