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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 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

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

Kyiv Under the German Occupation, 1941–1943: Dokia Humenna's Memoirs

On May 18, 2007 Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij (University of Manitoba) gave the 8th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Kyiv Under the German Occupation, 1941-1943: Dokia Humenna's Memoirs"

Tags: Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Diaspora, Dokia Humenna, Jews, Kyiv, Literature, Memoirs, Myroslav Shkandrij, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Ukrainian-Jewish Relations, Ukrainians, World War II

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

Book Launch: Unbridled Dissonance: The Second World War and Socio-Political Attitudes in Ukraine, 1939–1941

CIUS seminar audio.On December 4, 2012, CIUS hosted a book launch for "Unbridled Dissonance: The Second World War and Socio-Political Attitudes in Ukraine, 1939–1941". The author, Vladyslav Hrynevych (Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies,…

Tags: Book Launch, CIUS, Ukraine, Vladyslav Hrynevych, World War II

The impact of the Yalta Agreement of 1945 on East European geopolitics

CIUS seminar audio. On October 7, 2011, Serhii Plokhii (Mykhailo Hrushevsky chair of Ukrainian history at Harvard University) gave a seminar on the impact of the Yalta Agreement of 1945 on East European geopolitics.See more information in the CIUS…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Eastern Europe, Geopolitics, Postwar, Serhii Plokhii, Ukraine, World War II

World War II through Women’s Personal Narration

CIUS seminar audio.On January 28, 2011, Tetyana Dzyadevych (Department of Literature and Foreign Languages, Kyiv Mohyla Academy National University), gave a seminar on the topic: “World War II through Women’s Personal Narration.”Found in CIUS…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Diary, Film, Literature, Memoirs, Narrative, Oral History, Postcolonialism, Ukraine, Women, World War II

The 1932–33 Famine-Holodomor in Ukraine as Part of Stalin's Preparations for War: A New Hypothesis on a Motive for Genocide

CIUS seminar audio.On November 4, 2008, Liudmyla Hrynevych (Institute of Ukrainian History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), presented on the topic: "The 1932–33 Famine-Holodomor in Ukraine as Part of Stalins Preparations for War: A New…

Tags: 1932-33, CIUS Seminar, Communist Party, Famine, Genocide, Holodomor, Ideology, Liudmyla Hrynevych, Politics of Memory, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine, World War II

World War II in the Official Politics of Memory and in the Political Struggles in Ukraine Today

CIUS seminar audio. On November 3, 2008, Vladyslav Hrynevych (Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), spoke on the topic: “World War II in the Official Politics of Memory and in the Political Struggles in…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Historical Memory, Ideology, Politics of Memory, Post-1991, Ukraine, World War II

Interview with Mykola Sukhaversky about the OUN and Soviet occupation of Bukovyna

CIUS interview audio.Roman Shiyan interviews Mykola Sukhaversky about his biography and the Soviet occupation of Bukovyna in 1940.

Tags: Bukovyna, Canada, Immigration, Mykola Sukhaversky, Occupation, OUN, Primary Sources, Roman Shiyan, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Canadians, World War II

Interview with Mykola Sukhaversky about the OUN

CIUS audio interview (3 parts).In this recording Bohdan Klid interviews Mykola Sukhaversky about his life experience and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).

Tags: Biography, Bohdan Klid, Canada, Interviews, Interwar, Mykola Sukhaversky, Nationalism, OUN, Postwar, Primary Sources, Ukraine, UPA, World War II

1979: Ukraine since 1945: A Study in Modern History

Lecture Audio Part 1 and 2The thirteenth annual Shevchenko Lecture at the University of Alberta was held on March 7, 1979. Dr. Roman Szporluk, professor of history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, spoke on "Ukraine since 1945: A Study in…

Tags: 20th century, Brezhnev, Communist Party of Ukraine, Destalinization, Intelligentsia, Literature, Postwar, Roman Szporluk, Russification, Shelest, Shevchenko Annual Lecture, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, World War II, Writers

Consequences of the Movement of Non-Voluntary Migrants in a Nation State

CIUS Seminar Audio

Tags: Camps, CIUS Seminar, Eastern Europe, Liubomyr Luciuk, Migration, Refugees, World War II

Ukrainian Literature and Art in the 1920s

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2."Ukrainian Literature and Art in the 1920s" was the title of M. Shkandrij ' s Institute seminar, held at the University of Alberta on March 13, 1979. The speaker is a lecturer at the University of Calgary.The speaker…

Tags: 20th century, Art, CIUS Seminar, Constructivism, Cultural Renaissance, Culture, Destructivism, Futurism, Intelligentsia, K. Malevych, Literature, Monumentalism, Myroslav Shkandrij, Pure Art, Soviet Ukraine, Ukrainian Revolution, V. Polishchuk, World War II