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Ukraine and Russia in their historical encounter
Ukraine's attainment of political independence since 1991 has focused world attention on relations between Ukraine and Russia, the two most powerful successor states to the USSR. This collection of essays by eminent specialists provides a reliable…
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…
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…
Recollections about the Life of the First Ukrainian Settlers in Canada
Thi is a translation of the memoirs of William Czumer, Spomyny pro perezhyvannia pershykh ukrains'kykh pereselentsiv v Kanadi, which chronicle Ukrainian life in Canada during the first twenty-five years of settlement. See Ukrainians and Alberta in…
Ukrainians of the Eastern Diaspora : an Atlas
The atlas Ukrainians of the Eastern Diaspora is the first such publication concerning Ukrainians living outside their ethnic territory and scattered throughout the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union during the course of the last century. The Soviet…
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…
Щоденник, том перший, 1911–1920
The daily journal of the author and political figure who headed the first Ukrainian government, the Central Rada, and led the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic during the revolution era (1917–20). The annotations by Hryhorii Kostiuk, head…
Кордони України: історична ретроспектива / The Boundaries of Ukraine: Historical Retrospect and Current Status
A collection of essays looking at historical continuity and change of Ukraine's borders, from the time of Hetmanate to renegotiations within the Soviet Union and after its collapse. Volume publishe in Ukraine.
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…
Kobza
Published posthumously, this beautiful collection of more than 130 Ukrainian folk songs, including tablatures and lyrics, is intended for bandurists, musicians, and lovers of Ukrainian music in general. See kobza and bandura in the Enclopedia of…
Kobzarskyi Pidruchnyk
This book is both a theoretical and a practical volume for the bandurist's library. Various chapters address exercises (e.g. left-hand, right-hand, both hands), playing techniques, etc. Dozens of songs, tablatures, lyrics, and detailed information…
Essays in Modern Ukrainian History
A collection of twenty-three essays by Ivan L. Rudnytsky, a leading historian of modern Ukraine noted for his original interpretation of key issues in modern Ukrainian history.
Essay titles include:
The Role of Ukraine in Modern History
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Essay titles include:
The Role of Ukraine in Modern History
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Changing Realities: Social Trends Among Ukrainian Canadians
Twelve essays provide a portrait of Ukrainian Canadians analyzing the various ways in which the Ukrainian population has changed over several decades. Contributors include Wsevolod W. Isajiw, Olga Kuplowska, Jean E. Wolowyna, Charles B. Keely, Ivan…
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…
Pershyĭ Vseukraïnsʹkyĭ pravoslavnyĭ tserkovnyi sobor UAPTS 14–30 zhovtnia 1921 roku: dokumenty i materialy
The publication of the proceedings of the first Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which was held in Kyiv in October 1921, contains the previously unpublished proceedings of the ecclesiastical council that laid the foundations…
Political Thought of the Ukrainian Underground, 1943–1951
This volume brings together a rich selection of sixteen analytical essays and seven programmatic statements written by those directly involved in the struggle of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). The problems addressed include German and Russian…
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…
New Contributions to the History of the Ukrainian Language
Michael Moser's New Contributions to the History of the Ukrainian Language is a collection of scholarly essays that examine the development of Ukrainian from its beginnings to the present. In 1863 the imperial Russian minister of the interior, Petr…
The Tsymbaly Maker and His Craft: The Ukrainian Hammered Dulcimer
A description of the construction, history, and use of the Ukrainian hammer dulcimer in Canada. This volume appears in the Canadian Series in Ukrainian Ethnology, co-published with the Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography at the…
Ukrainian Canadians, Multiculturalism, and Separatism: An Assessment
Proceedings of a 1977 conference discussing the relationship between multiculturalism and Québécois separatism and illustrating the Ukrainian contribution to the national-unity debate. Contributors include Bohdan Bociurkiw, Camille Laurin, Ivan…
Osvita: Ukrainian Bilingual Education
This volume contains the proceedings of the first conference in Canada on research into Ukrainian-language education. Eighteen articles examine the teaching of Ukrainian in partial-immersion classrooms in Canada, focusing on the Ukrainian-English…
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…
Visible Symbols: Cultural Expression Among Canada's Ukrainians
The twenty-three essays in this volume address various aspects of the codes, archetypes, and symbols that recur in Ukrainian-Canadian material culture, art, music, dance, and more. Chapters include: Endurance, Disappearance and Adaptation: Ukrainian…
Continuity and Change: The Cultural Life of Alberta's First Ukrainians
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the life of the first Ukrainian immigrants. The volume consists of eight parts. It begins with a prologue by Roman Onufrijchuk that sets the stage for understanding the difficult process of cultural…
З мого життя / From My Life
Memoirs of Kyrylo Tryliovsky
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…
The Sovietization of Ukraine, 1917–1923
This work concerns the Bolsheviks' theory and practice of national self-determination with regard to Ukraine from the outbreak of the revolution in 1917 to the creation of the Soviet Union in 1923. In addition to presenting a detailed account of the…
Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century
This first case study of how the East European peasantry was drawn into national politics focuses on the Ukrainians of Galicia (1772–1914). On the basis of first-hand testimony by peasants and rural notables, it demonstrates that the peasants'…
Prophets and Proletarians: Documents on the History of the Rise and Decline of Ukrainian Communism in Canada
This collection of more than 400 of the most pertinent documents relating to the origin, growth, and decline of Ukrainian pro-communist organizations. The content of this work is divided into three sections: The Roots of Ukrainian Communism, 1904–18,…
Pereiaslav 1654: A Historiographical Study
In 1954, the three-hundredth anniversary of the Pereiaslav Treaty of 1654 between Russia and Ukraine was celebrated with unprecedented fervor throughout the Soviet Union. The event was resurrected ostensibly to justify the position of Ukrainians…
Identifications: Ethnicity and the Writer in Canada
This book presents eight selected papers from a conference held in Edmonton in 1979, that examined the relationship between ethnicity and the works of selected writers in Canada.
Ukraine and Russia in their Historical Encounter
Ukraine's attainment of political independence since 1991 has focused world attention on relations between Ukraine and Russia, the two most powerful successor states to the USSR. This collection of essays by eminent specialists provides a reliable…
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…
Soviet Regional Economics: Selected Works of Vsevolod Holubnychy
An incisive and prolific writer, Holubnychy had a wide range of interest that is reflected in this collection of essays: Ukrainian politics; Soviet regional economics, especially the position of Ukraine within the Soviet economic system; Marxist…
Development in the Shadow: Studies in Ukrainian Economics
The Russian occupation of Ukraine under the tsarist and communist regimes exerted a decisive influence on the development of Ukrainian economics. The present collection of essays, written over a ten-year period, explores some of the pertinent issues.…
Soviet Regional Economics: Selected Works of Vsevolod Holubnychy
An incisive and prolific writer, Holubnychy had a wide range of interest that is reflected in this collection of essays: Ukrainian politics; Soviet regional economics, especially the position of Ukraine within the Soviet economic system; Marxist…
Rethinking Ukrainian History
Nine essays reexamine major aspects of Ukrainian history including Kyivan Rus', the Ukrainian nobility and elites, Cossack Ukraine and the Turco-Islamic World, the growth and development of Ukrainian cities, the evolution of the Ukrainian literary…
An Age and Destiny: Memoirs / Доба і Доля: Спогади
These memoirs cover more than half of a century - from the end of XIX c. to the beginning of the 1950s, which was a turbulent time marked by three revolutions and the two World Wars. Ukraine has gained and lost its brief independence, went through…
Chernobyl: A Documentary Story
Dr. Shcherbak traveled to the dangerous zone around the reactor at Chernobyl, lived there and interviewed firemen, first-aid workers, party and government officials, local media representatives, and foreign visitors. The result is a variety of vivid…
Владімір (Зеев) Жаботинський і Українське Питання: Вселюдськість у Шатах Націоналізму / Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky: Universality in the Guise of Nationalism
This book is dedicated to political and social work of one of the most prolific members of the Zionism movement, born in Ukraine, Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940), and his close connections with Ukrainian liberation movement.
Вісімдесятники: Антологія Нової Української Поезії / Poets of the Eighties: An Anthology of New Ukrainian Poetry
An Anthology of New Ukrainian Poetry, Introduced by Mykola Riabchuk
Юрій Олексійович Меженко (1892–1969): матеріяли до біографії
The book is dedicated to the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Yurii Oleksiiovych Mezhenko, a leading Ukrainian bibliophile, bibliographer, literary and theatre critic. Published with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Ethnicity in a Technological Age
Twelve path-breaking essays define the territory for a Canadian social philosophy of ethnicity. They address the major issues of immigration, discrimination, consumerism, government policy, ethics, gender, media, and political strategy. From a…
Zustrichi i proshchanni͡a : spohady. Knyha II
A continuation of Зустрічі і прощання: Спогади (книга перша), the second volume of Hryhorii Kostiuk’s memoirs is a unique document of the development of Ukrainian culture and community outside Ukraine. This volume depicts the extraordinarily dynamic,…
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…
Doslidnyky arkheolohiï Ukraïny : ent͡syklopedychnyĭ slovnyk-dovidnyk
This encyclopedic handbook, prepared by the well-known Kyiv archeologist Halyna Mezentseva, is the first work containing brief biographical and bibliographic information on close to 600 archeologists whose work focuses on ancient Ukraine and…
Ваплітянський збірник
This is a rich collection of letters, diaries, poetry, and fiction from the archives of VAPLITE (1925–28). Writers include M. Khvylovy, P. Tychyna, M. Kulish, M. Bazhan, V. Sosiura, A. Lubchenko, O. Vyshnia, and many others.
Loyalties in Conflict: Ukrainians in Canada during the Great War
This collection of eight essays provides a detailed examination of the wartime experience of Canada's Ukrainian community. Chapters include: The Internment of Ukrainians in Canada The Enemy Aliens and the Canadian General Election of 1917 The…
Morality and Reality: the Life and Times of Andrei Sheptytsḱyi
Andrei Sheptyts'kyi (1865–1944), metropolitan-archbishop of the Greek Catholic Church in Galicia, was a towering figure in twentieth-century Ukrainian life. This collection of twenty-one essays examines Metropolitan Sheptyts'kyi as church hierarch,…
Chernobyl and Nuclear Power in the USSR
Chernobyl and Nuclear Power in the USSR provided the first detailed account of the Soviet nuclear power industry and of the nature, impact and consequences of the Chernobyl (Chornobyl) disaster of 28 April 1986. Marples places the Chornobyl accident…
Life sentence : memoirs of a Ukrainian political prisoner
Danylo Shumuk, a Ukrainian from the Volhynia region, was at one point Amnesty International’s most “senior” prisoner of conscience, having been incarcerated in various prisons and labor camps for almost thirty-seven years. Life Sentence is his…
Politics and Society in Soviet Ukraine, 1953–1980
Based on meticulous study and analysis of Soviet sources, particularly the Soviet press, it encompasses Soviet Ukraine from the death of Stalin to Shcherbytsky's rule as first party secretary. A final chapter on society examines economic aspects,…
Church, Nation and State in Russia and Ukraine
This unique collection of nineteen essays is the product of a conference held in July 1988 at the University of London, UK. By addressing a diverse number of religious issues in both historical and contemporary contexts, the authors seek to "correct…
Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-century Ukraine
The first social history of modern Ukraine in English. This book examines the effects of social and political change in twentieth-century Ukraine on the national consciousness of workers, peasants, the intelligentsia, and the political elite.…
In the shadow of the Rockies : diary of the Castle Mountain internment camps, 1915-1917
It is still a little-known fact that during the First World War and in the immediate postwar period (1914–1920), Canadian Internment Operations imprisoned more than 8,000 individuals. The majority of those interned were civilian non-combatants,…
Post-Communist Ukraine
The book Post-Communist Ukraine by Bohdan Harasymiw is one of the most comprehensive and penetrating studies of the political and social realities of independent Ukraine during the first 10 years of its existence. The masterfully written,…
Поза традиції: антологія модерної української поезії в діяспорi / Beyond Tradition: an Anthology of Modern Ukrainian Poetry in the Diaspora
Anthology of Modern Ukrainian Poetry in the Diaspora
Tkanyna : an exhibit of Ukrainian weaving = Tkanyna: vystavka ukraı̈nsʹkoho tkat͡stva
This is beautiful title contains a parallel bilingual English-Ukrainian text and includes colour photographs of Ukrainian textiles and weaving artifacts displayed at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village near Edmonton in 1988.
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Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective
The book Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective is a rich and stimulating collection of twenty-three papers from the 1983 conference on Ukrainian-Jewish relations held at McMaster University, Canada. The essays in this unique volume…
Indeks ukraïnsʹkoï katolytskoï periodyky Halychyny : 1871–1942
INDEX to the Greek Catholic Реrіоdісаl Literature of Ukraine, 1871–1942
The present index is an attempt to contribute to the renewal of religious scholarship in Ukraine. With more than 8,000 entries and cross-references, it presents the collective output of nineteen Ukrainian Grecko Catholic journals and almanachs over a…
Famine in Ukraine 1932–1933
The Soviet Man-made famine of 1932–3 in Ukraine claimed the lives of millions of people, yet until recently it has remained veiled in obscurity. This pioneering volume, which appeared before the publication of Robert Conquest's Harvest of Sorrow and…
Ukraine: From Chernobyl' to Sovereignty: A Collection of Interviews
This collection of fifteen stimulating interviews with well-known figures and academics is relevant. It includes discussions with Adam Michnik, Vitalii Karpenko, Pavlo Movchan, Mykola Riabchuk, Yurii Pokalchuk, Ivan Drach, Anatolii Pohribnyi,…
The Tsymbaly Maker and His Craft: The Ukrainian Hammered Dulcimer
This description of the construction, history, and use of the Ukrainian hammer dulcimer in Canada.
Ukrainian Canadians: A Survey of Their Portrayal in English-Language Works
This chronological examination of government reports, theses, novels, magazine articles, and writings by educators and churchmen prior to 1970.
Historical Driving Tour: Ukrainian Churches in East Central Alberta
This guide to twenty-six churches in the historic Ukrainian settlement area of east-central Alberta. Includes street addresses of parishes, several maps, and a glossary. Published in association with the Inventory of Potential Historic Sites, Alberta…
Ukraine after Shelest
The successes and failures of Shcherbytsky's mission represent the major theme of this collection of essays. which deals with the national question, dissent and opposition, literary politics, the economy, and ethno-demographic trend.
