Books by David R Marples
E-International Relations, 2020
The author recounts his experiences in Ukraine and Belarus, as well as Russia over the period fro... more The author recounts his experiences in Ukraine and Belarus, as well as Russia over the period from the 1970s to the present. Among the topics covered are Chernobyl, the EuroMaidan, the Lukashenka regime in Belarus, and indigenous groups in Siberia.
Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures and Societiess, 2007
The Lukashenka Phenomenon looks at the controversial Belarusian leader's rise to power and the re... more The Lukashenka Phenomenon looks at the controversial Belarusian leader's rise to power and the reasons for his longevity in office.
Ibidem Verlag, Germany, 2014
Introduction to 2014 book discussing contemporary Belarus. Backgrounder for journalists.
Papers by David R Marples
Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940s, 1992
The Journal of Belarusian Studies, 2013
Canadian Slavonic Papers, 1985
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
Current History
Page 1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33... more Page 1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 VIEWPOINT 1 13 PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN WORLD HISTORY SOURCE. David R. Marples, Encyclopedia of Russian History. ...
Canadian Slavonic papers, Jun 1, 2011
Post-Soviet Geography, 1995
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Post-Soviet Geography, 1993
Поиск в библиотеке, Расширенный поиск. ...
Soviet Geography, 1991
Поиск в библиотеке, Расширенный поиск. ...
Post-Soviet Geography, 1992
Поиск в библиотеке, Расширенный поиск. ...
Nuclear Energy and Security in the Former Soviet Union, 2018
Europe-Asia Studies, 2018
During the horrific famine of 1932-3, did Ukrainian peasants die because they were Ukrainians or ... more During the horrific famine of 1932-3, did Ukrainian peasants die because they were Ukrainians or because they were peasants? This blunt question is at the heart of scholarly debate on the famine: while some believe that the famine was a deliberate attempt to crush Ukrainian nationalism (and thus can be considered an act of genocide), others see it as a product of Soviet agricultural mismanagement and Bolshevik indifference to the peasants' fate. Terry Martin suggests a compromise he calls the 'national interpretation of the famine'. He argues that the famine originated in the sphere of Soviet agricultural policies. However, Moscow interpreted Soviet Ukraine's failure to meet its (impossible) grain quotas as an act of national defiance. The Bolsheviks introduced harsher measures targeting the Ukrainian Soviet Republic that transformed the widespread starvation of 1932 into the horrendous famine of 1933.(1) Anne Applebaum's new book addresses this question. As a journalist, she is a long-time commentator on Central and Eastern Europe and, as the member and founder of various thinktanks, an actor aspiring to shape it. Therefore, unusually for a historical work on Ukraine, her monograph has received wider attention, including numerous reviews in the press. Red Famine is a work of three parts. The first places the Ukrainian nation at the centre of the story. This is unsurprising, as Applebaum is well-known for her contention that nationalism is the source of the citizen's civic engagement without which democracy is impossible.(2) This carries with it the ontological assumption that nations must be, if not perennial, then at least very old, a fundamental and enduring part of what it is to be human. Accordingly, in her opening chapter on 'The Ukrainian question', Applebaum ignores the great body of scholarship that sees nations as modern creations, instead claiming that by the late Middle Ages Ukrainians had their own distinct language, food, customs and traditions. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the period in which most scholars see nations emerging, a sense of Ukrainian identity merely 'sharpened'. The leitmotif of this history she finds summed up in Voltaire's claim that 'Ukraine has always aspired to be free' (p. 5). This narrative loses all the fascinating complexity of Ukrainian nation-building. In the 19th century, intellectuals in the area we now call Ukraine did not agree on their identity. In Eastern Galicia, then ruled by the Habsburgs, they debated whether they were Ruthenians (members a nation confined to the borders of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1993
This article reviews the April 26, 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. The information presented ... more This article reviews the April 26, 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. The information presented was gathered through talks between the author and scientists, citizens, and hospital workers in Belarus and Ukraine, as well as from library research. What is currently believed to ...
The Ukrainian Weekly, Oct 15, 1995
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