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Western Ukraine comprises those areas of Ukraine annexed by the Soviet Union after September 1939. They are (1) Galicia, made up of the Soviet oblasts of Lviv, Stanyslaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Drohobych (now part of Lviv Oblast) and Ternopil; (2) Volhynia, made up of Rivne and Volyn oblasts; (3) Bukovyna (Chernivtsi Oblast); and (4) Transcarpathia (Zakarpatska Oblast). In the interwar period, the Galician and Volhynian territories were governed by Poland, Chernivtsi was part of Romania and Transcarpathia was ruled by Czechoslovakia. Whereas the former areas were all annexed by the USSR after the invasion of Eastern Poland in 1939, Transcarpathia became part of the Soviet Union only in June 1945.1
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7 The Collectivization of Western Ukraine, 1948–1949
On Western Ukraine in the interwar period, see V. Kubijovyc, Western Ukraine within Poland, 1920–1939 (Chicago, 1963);
S. Horak, Poland and Her National Minorities (New York, 1961);
and B. M. Babyi, Vozzyednannya zakhidnoi Ukrainy z Ukrainskoyu RSR (Kiev, 1954).
The best works covering the area for the postwar years up to 1953 are Y. Bilinsky, The Second Soviet Republic: The Ukraine After World War II (New Brunswick, N.J., 1964);
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K.-E. Waedekin, Agrarian Policies in Communist Europe (The Hague, 1982), pp. 27–28; Jacobs, op. cit., pp. 422–25.
The best work on Transcarpathia and its historical development in English is P. R. Magosci, The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus’, 1848–1948 (Cambridge, Mass., 1978).
See Armstrong, Ukrainian Nationalism, 2d ed. (Littleton, Colorado, 1980), pp. 294–95.
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See, for example, M. McCauley, The Soviet Union Since 1917 (London, 1981), pp. 135–36.
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See, for example, V. Cherednychenko, Natsionalizm proty natsii (Kiev, 1970), pp. 157–67, a virulent anti-UPA tract.
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Marples, D.R. (1992). The Collectivization of Western Ukraine, 1948–1949. In: Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376076_7
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