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Zustrichi i proshchanni͡a : spohady. Knyha I

This book is the first volume of the memoirs of Hryhorii Kostiuk, a historian, publicist, and literary scholar. Kostiuk describes the momentous events that took place in Ukraine in the first half of the twentieth century. In the course of his…

Lektsii z istoriï ukraïns'koï literatury : (1798-1870)

This collection of forty-five essays was circulated by Zerov’s students at Kyiv University in 1928–29. Zerov’s lectures shaped the views of a generation of scholars and students, and Lektsii z Istorii Ukrains’koi Literatury makes a valuable…

The Refugee experience : Ukrainian displaced persons after World War II

This volume, a collective study of the post-World War II Ukrainian emigrants in Germany and Austria, departs from the standard approach to immigration studies. Instead of focusing on the immigrants’ adjustment to their host societies (the United…

Tags: Alexander Baran, Bohdan Bociurkiw, Bohdan Panchuk, Cultural Life in Displaced Persons Camps, Danylo Husar Struck, Daria Markus, Displaced Persons, Forced Labor in Nazi Germany, George Grabowicz, George Luckyj, Harold Troper, Ihor Stebelsky, Ihor Zielyk, Immigration, International Refugee Organization, Ivan Holowinsky, Lubomyr Luciuk, Lubomyr Wynar, Mark Elliott, Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Michael Palij, Myron Kuropas, Myron Momryk, Myroslav Yurkevich, Nazi Concentration Camps, Nicholas Bohatiuk, Orest Subtelny, Ostap Tarnawsky, Postwar Europe Refugee Crisis, Refugee Contributions to Ukrainian Diaspora, Refugee Integration in North America, Refugee Resettlement Programs, Refugees, Roman Ilnytzkyj, Roman Senkus, Roman Senkus Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Soviet Repatriation Policy, Stanley Frolick, Theodore Bohdan Ciuciura, Ukrainian Political Refugees, Ukrainians in Postwar Europe, Valerian Revutsky, Vasyl Markus, World War II, Wsevolod Isajiw, Yury Boshyk

Letters from Kiev

The book Letters from Kiev is an eyewitness account of the political and cultural changes in the tumultuous months of 1990–91 that led to Ukraine’s declaration of independence. Expertly translated by Myrna Kostash, the text is fully annotated for the…

The word and wax : a medical folk ritual among Ukrainians in Alberta

The Word and Wax explores the fascinating medical folk ritual of wax pouring used by some members of the Alberta Ukrainian community as a means of driving away fear and curing minor ailments. The ceremony is of the magico-religious and…

Tags: Alberta Folklore, Anxiety Treatment, Beeswax Rituals, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Canadian Series in Ukrainian Ethnology, Christian Imagery, Christmas Customs, Community Healers, Cultural Adaptation, Cultural Health Practices, Cultural Heritage, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Ethnographic Research, Fear Sickness, Folk Customs, Folk Medicine Studies, Folk Medicines, Folk Remedies, Health And Culture, Immigrant Adaptation, Magico-religious Rituals, Medical Anthropology, Medical Folk Rituals, Oral Incantations, Pre-Christian Traditions, Rena Jeanne Hanchuk, Ritual Healing, Strakh Vylyvaty, Stress Reduction, Transposed Cultural Traditions, Ukrainian Canadian Literature, Ukrainian Diaspora, Ukrainian Ethnography, Ukrainian Folk Medicine, Ukrainian Folklore, Ukrainian Healers, Ukrainian Healing Traditions, Ukrainian Heritage, Ukrainian Immigrants in Canada, Ukrainian Material Culture, Ukrainian Settlers, Ukrainian Storytelling, Ukrainians in Alberta, Village Traditions, Vylyvaty Visk, Wax Ceremony, Wax Healers, Wax Pouring Ritual, Wax Pouring Tradition, Wedding Traditions

The Politics of Multiculturalism: a Ukrainian-Canadian Memoir

The book Politics of Multiculturalism is the memoir of an academic whose expertise in the education of Canadian minorities led him to take on a major political role in the Canadian multicultural movement. Born in the Ukrainian bloc settlement of…

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Bilingual Programs, Alberta Cultural Heritage Council, Canadian Constitution Multiculturalism Section, Canadian Consultative Council on Multiculturalism, Canadian History, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Canadian Minorities Education, Canadian Multiculturalism, Canadian Politics, Cultural Diversity in Canada, Cultural Heritage Promotion, Democratic Society Minority Rights, Education, Educational Reform, Ethnic Cultural Enrichment, Liberal Secular Humanism, Manitoba Bilingual Education, Manoly R. Lupul, Memoir, Minority Advocacy, Minority Linguistic Rights, Multicultural Policy Development, Multiculturalism, Policy Development in Education, Russification in Ukraine, Saskatchewan Bilingual Education, Ukrainian Bloc Settlement Alberta, Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada, Ukrainian-Canadian, Ukrainian-Canadian History, Ukrainian-Canadian Memoir

Щоденник, том другий, 1921–1925

An excellent primary source for the study of the political and cultural climate of Eastern and Western Europe from 1921 to 1925. Living in exile in Europe, Vynnychenko recorded his extensive interaction with West European cultural figures, as well as…

Tags: Alexandr Motyl, Cultural Climate, Diaries, Eastern Europe, Émigré Politicians, European Cultural Figures, European Relations, Exile, Hryhoriy Kostiuk, Intelligentsia Interaction, Political Climate, Political Exile, Ukrainian Diaspora, Ukrainian History, Ukrainian Intelligentsia, Ukrainian Politics, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Western Europe

The Communist Party of Western Ukraine, 1919–1929

This authoritative study, first published in Polish as Komunistyczna Partia Zachodniej Ukrainy, 1919–1929 (Cracow, 1976), examines the development of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine from its inception in 1919 until 1929, when a major split…

Tags: Alexander Motyl, Communist Party of Ukraine, Communist Party of Western Ukraine, Development of Communist Party, Janusz Radziejowski, John Armstrong, Krytyka Journal, Mykhailo Slabchenko, Soviet Ukraine., Stalin's Emerging Dictatorship, Twentieth-Century Ukrainian History, Ukrainian Nationalism, Underground Publications

Christian Social Ethics in Ukraine: The Legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky

In the first half of the twentieth century, Christianity in Europe faced an unprecedented range of social, economic, and political issues that challenged the very essence of the faith. In response to the rise of socialism, the struggle for political…

Tags: Andrei Sheptytsky, Andrii Krawchuk, Christian Moral Teaching, Christian Social Ethics, Church Unity, East European Context, Galicia, Ideological Atheism, Pastoral Letters, Religious Liberty, Social and Political Reality, Soviet Persecution, Twentieth-Century Christian Social Thought, Ukraine, Ukrainian Archives, Ukrainian Catholic Church

The Emergence of Ukraine Self-Determination, Occupation, and War in Ukraine, 1917–1922

The book The Emergence of Ukraine: Self-Determination, Occupation, and War in Ukraine, 1917–1922, is a collection of articles by several prominent historians from Austria, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia who undertook a detailed study of the…