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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…

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…

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…

Tags: 20th century, Amnesty International, Anti-Soviet Agitation, Anti-Soviet Documents, Artificially Imposed Famine, Autobiography, Bandera, Boremshchyna, Canada, Communism, Communist Ideology, Communist Literature, Communist Party of Western Ukraine, Danylo Shumuk, Democracy, Edward Kuznetsov, Enemy of the People, Guerrilla Warfare, Habsburg Empire, Human Rights, Humanism, Incarceration, Intelligentsia, Interwar, Interwar Poland, Ivan Svitlychny, KGB, Khorol, Manuscript, Memoirs, Memoirs of Danylo Shumuk, Mordovian Special-Regime Camp, Nadia Svitlychna, Nationalism, Nazi Occupation of Volhynia, NKVD, Norilsk, Norilsk Camp Strikes, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Polish Government Repression, Polish Prison, Political Prisoners, Poltava. 1933, Pro-Moscow, Propaganda, Reichskommissariat Ukraine, Rural Ukrainians, SALT II Negotiations, Selrob, Sluzhba Bepeky, Soviet Labor Camps, Soviet Occupation of Ukraine, Soviet Partisans, Soviet Repression, Soviet Union, Stalin, Treaty of Riga, Tsarist Restrictions, Ukrainian Cultural Defense, Ukrainian Dissidents, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Ukrainian Nationalist Movement, Ukrainian Resistance, Ukrainian-Polish Conflict, Ukrainian-Polish Relations, Underground Communist Activity, UPA, Volhynia Oblast, War Criminals, Warsaw Pact, Western Ukraine History, World War II

The Last Debate with Stalin: Ukrainian Writers in Moscow, 1929

On May 3, 2018 Serhy Yekelchyk (Professor of History and Slavic Studies University of Victoria) gave the 19th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "The Last Debate with Stalin: Ukrainian Writers in Moscow, 1929"

Tags: 20th century, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Literature, Russia, Serhy Yekelchyk, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Ukrainian Studies, Writers

Literary Criticism as Sacrilege: Turning the Iconostasis into a National Canon

On May 13, 2016 Mykola Riabchuk (Senior Research Fellow Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, AoSU Fulbright Research Fellow, George Washington University) gave the 17th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Literary Criticism as…

Tags: 20th century, Criticism, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Education, Iconostasis, Identity, Ideology, Intelligentsia, Literature, Mykola Riabchuk, Nationalism, Post-1991, Socialism, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Writers

Depictions of WWII in Ukrainian Socialist Realist Literature (1941–1943)

On May 18, 2012 Prof. Valentyna Kharkhun (Mykola Hohol State University of Nizhyn) gave the 13th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Depictions of WWII in Ukrainian Socialist Realist Literature (1941-1943)"

Tags: 20th century, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Historical Memory, Ideology, Literature, Realism, Socialism, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Valentyna Kharkhun, World War II

The Literary Fallout of Chornobyl

On May 26, 2006, Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky (University of Toronto) gave the 7th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "The Literary Fallout of Chornobyl"

Tags: 20th century, Chornobyl, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Ideology, Literature, Maxim Tarnawsky, Post-1991, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Between Homeland and Hostland: Volodymyr Vynnychenko as a Displaced Writer

On April 26, 2013, Dr. Mykola Soroka(Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies) gave the 14th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Between Homeland and Hostland: Volodymyr Vynnychenko as a Displaced Writer." Dr. Soroka also presented his…

Tags: 20th century, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Displaced Persons, Displacement, Emigration, Identity, Literature, Mykola Soroka, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Writers

The Representation of Madness and Stalinism in Ukrainian Literature

CIUS seminar audio. On February 29, 2013, Natalia Kovaliova (MLCS, U of A), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Representation of Madness and Stalinism in Ukrainian Literature”Found in CIUS Newsletter 2013

Tags: 20th century, CIUS Seminar, Dissidents, Literature, Natalia Kovaliova, Soviet Union, Stalinism, Ukrainian Literature

Ministers of Righteousness? Greek Catholic Clergymen and Poles and Jews during World War II

Each year, the Program on Religion and Culture.hosts the Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture. This year’s lecture, held on 6 December 2012, was given by Marco Carynnyk, who spoke on the topic, “Ministers of Righteousness? Greek Catholic Clergymen and…

Tags: 20th century, Antisemitism, Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture, Catholic, Church, Culture, Greek Catholic Church, Holocaust, Jews, Marco Carynnyk, Poland, Poles, Religion, Ukraine, Ukrainian-Jewish Relations, World War II, Worship

Ukrainians in Argentina, 1897–1950: The Making of a Community

CIUS book launch audio.On April 3, 2012, Serge Cipko spoke at the book launch for "Ukrainians in Argentina, 1897–1950: The Making of a Community" (co-sponsored by the Department of History and Classics)Found in CIUS Newsletter 2012

Tags: 19th century, 20th century, Argentina, Book Launch, CIUS Seminar, Community, Diaspora, Identity, Migration, Serge Cipko, Ukrainians in Argentina

The Holodomor and the Soviet Famines, 1931–33

CIUS seminar audio. The great Ukrainian-Kuban famine of 1932–33—the Holodomor—was one of the determinative events of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, it was largely ignored by scholars until the last few years of the existence of the Soviet…

Tags: 1932-33, 20th century, Andrea Graziosi, Caucasus, CIUS Seminar, Collectivization, Communist Party, Famine, Genocide, Holodomor, Kazakhstan, Kuban, Peasants, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine, United Nations

2007: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA): What Have We Learned 65 Years after Its Founding?

The 41st annual Shevchenko Lecture, co-sponsored by CIUS and the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club of Edmonton, was delivered on 30 March 2007 by Dr. Peter J. Potichnyj, a leading authority on Ukrainian wartime insurgency, who spoke on “The…

Tags: 20th century, Ideology, Jews, Nationalism, OUN, OUN-B, Peter Potichnyj, Shevchenko Annual Lecture, Soviet Union, Stepan Bandera, Ukraine, Ukrainian-Jewish Relations, Ukrainian-Polish Relations, UPA

Part 21: Question period for Leonid Leshchenko, Oleksandr Sych, Yurii Zavhorodniev, Victor Buyniak, Alexandra Kruchka Glynn, Robert Klymasz, Karol Krotki, and David Odynak

Audio recorded from CIUS conference. In this recording, the panel is opened for questions from the audience.

Tags: 20th century, Alexandra Kruchka Glynn, Canada, Conference, David Odynak, Immigration, Karol Krotki, Leonid Leshchenko, Oleksandr Sych, Robert Klymasz, Ukrainian Canadians, Victor Buyniak, Yurii Zavhorodniev