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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'…
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…
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…
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.…
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.
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.
Russian-Oriented Cities and the Russification of Urban Memory in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine
Roundtable 10 years after Ukrainian independence—Photos
Taras Kuzio, John-Paul Himka, David R. Marples
Encyclopedia of Ukraine launch in Philadelphia—1996
From left - V. Baranetsky, S. Trofimenko, D. Struk, J. Zapilsky
