<i>The Near Abroad: Eastern Europe and Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine, 1956–1985</i>
Journal: Journal of Cold War Studies
Year: 2019

Zbigniew Wojnowski's book provides an original investigation into the phenomenon of Soviet Ukrainian patriotism that he shows existed throughout the republic, including what is usually described as the “nationalist West.” Wojnowski writes it is mistaken to view Soviet Ukraine only through the lens of an anti-Soviet identity versus the Communist Party. He argues that a Soviet identity was common. He admits that Soviet power was alien to western Ukrainians until the 1950s and even 1960s but then t