title: Haberdashery History of the Ukrainian Army
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metadata.value: Dolgov, Vadim V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T11:02:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T11:02:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Dolgov V. V. Haberdashery History of the Ukrainian Army. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 3, pp. 972–982.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.320
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14927
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The book reviewed in this article is a popular scholarly publication dedicated to the history
  of the Ukrainian army from the Paleolithic period to the events in the East Ukraine in
  2014–2015. The publication is the result of the work of the civil educational project “LIKBEZ.
  Historical front”. “LIKBEZ” is an independent non-profit association of Ukrainian historians
  whose main aim is the defense of their country at the ideological battlefields. The article
  perceives the book as a source on the history of the ideological confrontation between Russia
  and Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR. The author analyzes propagandistic techniques
  and clichés used by modern ideologists to construct a new Ukrainian identity. According to
  the reviewer, the book provides a good overview of the facts on the material side of military
  life (uniform, badges of rank, elements of clothing décor). At the same time, the concept of
  development of the Ukrainian armed forces is completely inferior to the needs of propaganda,
  and does not have solid academic grounding. There are several major criticisms of the book:
  1) the beginning of the history of the Ukrainian army cannot be related to the Paleolithic
  time. It is impossible to trace authentically cultural and genetic connection of the population
  of modern Ukraine to its Paleolithic inhabitants; 2) the military art of Ancient Rus’ should be
  studied not only on the basis of artifacts from the territory “over the Dnieper”, but also on the
  materials from the North of Russia and Novgorod; 3) the book exaggerates the influence of
  the European military culture of modern times on the Ukrainian army; 4) the authors neglect
  the decisive role of the Red Army in the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazis. The allies of
  the Nazis, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and R. Shukhevych, are claimed to be the greatest
  heroes of the Ukrainian people in the book. Such an approach seems to be one-sided. The
  Ukrainians constituted about 20% of combatants taking part in the warfare within the Soviet
  army. 2,5 millions of Ukrainians were awarded military decorations, more than two thousands
  of whom were given the Hero of the Soviet Union awards. To neglect the military feats of the
  Ukrainians who fought in the Red Army and liberated the World from the Nazi threat is absolutely
  inappropriate.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: military history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ukraine
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical myths
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: national identity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: propaganda
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Haberdashery History of the Ukrainian Army
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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