This concluding chapter will be divided into three parts.
The first will examine perhaps the most definitive treatment of OUN ideology to date, by historian H. V. Kas'yanov; the second will look at the main findings of the 2004 Government Commission Report on OUN-UPA; and the final section will offer some conclusions on the issues raised in this book—the question of constructing national history in Ukraine, with a focus on the twentieth century and the Stalin years in particular.1 There is as yet no prevailing narrative, as we have noted from recent school textbooks, but with the passing of time the analyses have become increasingly sophisticated.
The two major assessments described below perhaps define the end of a period of inquiry and debate, though the issues discussed are far from dormant. Kas’yanov’s article also formed the basis for his contribution to the Government Commission Report. However, since it appeared first in Ukrains'kyi Istorychnyi zhurnal, it has been discussed separately. It is to some extent a follow-up to an article he wrote six years earlier in the same journal. The assessments have been placed in the conclusion to the book because they offer the perspectives of Ukraine's leading historians. They do not indicate that these views are widely accepted across Ukraine and doubtless there are significant and radical regional variations and opinions. That is not really the point. The historians' perspectives will likely be transferred to school textbooks over time and form the views of new generations of Ukrainian citizens, and as such they are valuable and influential over the long term.
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