The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist is the first comprehensive and scholarly
biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his
political cult. In this fascinating book Grzegorz Rossoli?ski-Liebe illuminates the life of a
mythologized personality and scrutinizes the history of the most violent twentieth-century
Ukrainian nationalist movement: the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its Ukrainian
Insurgent Army. Elucidating the circumstances in which Bandera and his movement emerged and
functioned Rossoli?ski-Liebe explains how fascism and racism impacted on Ukrainian
revolutionary and genocidal nationalism. The book shows why Bandera and his followers failed
despite their ideological similarity to the Croatian Usta a and the Slovak Hlinka Party to
establish a collaborationist state under the auspices of Nazi Germany and examines the
involvement of the Ukrainian nationalists in the Holocaust and other atrocities during and
after the Second World War. The author brings to light some of the darkest elements of modern
Ukrainian history and demonstrates its complexity paying special attention to the Soviet
terror in Ukraine and the entanglement between Ukrainian Jewish Polish Russian German and
Soviet history. The monograph also charts the creation and growth of the Bandera cult before
the Second World War its vivid revivals during the Cold War among the Ukrainian diaspora and
in Bandera`s native eastern Galicia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
