Biography
Primary Sources
Interview
CIUS interview audio (3 Parts). Interview with Ilya Semchyshyn about Ukraine. Born in Bosnia on August 2, 1951. His predecessors were born in Galicia. Mr. Semchyshyn witnessed the Bosnian war.
CIUS
Ilya Semchyshyn
Interview with Jordan Vincent: University of Alberta student on exchange at Lviv University
Education
Contemporary Ukraine
CIUS interview audio. Bohdan Klid interviews Jordan Vincent. The student exchange program between the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv University) and the University of Alberta (U of A) completed its third year in the spring of 2009. During the 2008-9 academic year, one student from the U of A, Jordan Vincent, went to Lviv in the fall semester. Mr. Vincent is majoring in history and entered his fourth year of study in 2009-10. This was Jordan’s first visit to Ukraine. Overall, he was very satisfied with his stay and the improvement in his Ukrainian, especially with regard to comprehension. Using Ukrainian daily also made him more confident of his speaking ability. In Lviv he took courses in the Ukrainian language; musical folklore and folk singing; French; and cultural studies. Mr. Vincent was impressed by Lviv’s rich cultural life, its remarkable architecture, and the layout of the city Jordan Vincent centre. He was very pleased by the generally friendly and helpful attitude of Lviv University students toward him. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2009
Bohdan Klid, Jordan Vincent
Interview with Katherine Howell and Christina Palamarchuk: University of Alberta students returning from study at Lviv University
CIUS interview audio. Bohdan Klid interviews Ms. Howell and Ms. Palamarchuk after returning from their exchange. For the 2007-08 academic year, two students from the U of A—Katherine Howell and Christina Palamarchuk— went to study at Lviv University. Ms. Howell has completed her fourth year of study, majoring in sociology and Ukrainian language and literature. Christina Palamarchuk is about to enter her fourth year, majoring in psychology with a minor in linguistics. Christina Palamarchuk had never been to Ukraine before, while Katherine Howell did visit the country briefly for three weeks in 2001 during a Ukrainian dance group tour. Katherine Howell has taken many Ukrainian courses at the U of A and is a graduate of the Ukrainian-English bilingual school program in Edmonton. Christina Palamarchuk was in the bilingual school program to grade 6. Here is the link to another existing interview from Ms. Howell and Ms. Palamarchuk before they left on their exchange.
Katherine Howell, Christina Palamarchuk, Bohdan Klid
Interview with Katherine Howell and Christina Palamarchuk: University of Alberta Students to Study at Lviv University
CIUS interview audio. Bohdan Klid interviews Ms. Howell and Ms. Palamarchuk. For the 2007-08 academic year, two students from the U of A—Katherine Howell and Christina Palamarchuk—will be going to study at Lviv University. Ms. Howell has completed her fourth year of study, majoring in sociology and Ukrainian language and literature. Christina Palamarchuk is about to enter her fourth year, majoring in psychology with a minor in linguistics. Ms. Howell is planning to study for one semester, while Ms. Palamarchuk plans to stay for two semesters. Both, in addition to their studies, hope to become involved in extracurricular activities, such as singing in a university choir, joining a student group on campus, and perhaps doing volunteer work off campus, such as at an orphanage. The two U of A students are looking forward to learn about contemporary Ukrainian culture and experience what it’s like to live in today’s Ukraine. Christin a Palamarchuk has never been to Ukraine before, while Katherine Howell did visit the country briefly for three weeks in 2001 during a Ukrainian dance group tour. Katherine Howell has taken many Ukrainian courses at the U of A and is a graduate of the Ukrainian-English bilingual school program in Edmonton. Christina Palamarchuk was in the bilingual school program to grade 6. Here is the link to the interview with Ms. Howell and Ms. Palamarchuk after their return from their exchange. Found in CIUS Press Release June 18, 2007
Interview with Marusia Petryshyn about CIUS
CIUS History
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
Marko Levitsky interviews Marusia Petryshyn about the state of CIUS.
Marko Levitsky, Marusia Petryshyn
Interview with Mykola Sukhaversky about the OUN
World War II
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
CIUS audio interview (3 parts). In this recording Bohdan Klid interviews Mykola Sukhaversky about his life experience and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).
Bohdan Klid, Mykola Sukhaversky
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.
Roman Shiyan, Mykola Sukhaversky
Interview with Olenka Bilash about her life and Ukrainian education in Canada
Bilingualism
Ukrainian Canadians
Ukrainian Bilingual Education
Mykola Soroka interviews Olenka Bilash about Ukrainian education in Canada.
Olenka Bilash
Interview with Olenka Bilash About Ukrainian Bilingual Education in Edmonton
Alberta
CIUS Seminar Audio. Olenka Bilash is interviewed about Ukrainian Bilingual education in Edmonton.
CIUS interview audio. Jars Balan interviews Peter Savaryn
Peter Savaryn
Interview with Peter Savaryn about Ukrainian Politicians in Alberta
Politics
Andrij Makuch interviews Peter Savaryn about Ukrainian Politicians in Alberta
Andrij Makuch, Peter Savaryn
Bohdan Klid interviews Petro Malofij. God blessed him with a generous soul, a sensitive heart, and a deep love of Ukraine, the land where he grew up but had to leave in time of war. That love and desire to help his compatriots rebuild an independent Ukraine prompted Mr. Malofij to give generously of his resources. Following the tragic deaths of his niece, Marusia Onyshchuk, and his nephew, Ivanko Kharuk, in 1986, he established an endowment fund at CIUS named after them. The first donation of $10,000 was matched by the Government of Alberta, and today the principal of the fund stands at $152,057. Part of that amount came from Mr. Malofij s medical insurance, as he never required a medical leave in the course of his career. Peter Malofij was born in 1921 in Tulova near Sniatyn (present-day Ivano-Frankivsk oblast). His father spent the interwar period in Canada and then returned to develop a business at home. As a thriving proprietor, he was arrested after the war and taken to a Soviet prison, where he soon died. During the war, young Peter was selected to serve in the Galician Division and took part in the Battle of Brody. The end of the war found him in the British occupation zone of Germany and then in a prisoner-of-war camp in Rimini, Italy. He spent a brief period in Scotland before moving to Canada in 1952. Upon arrival, he lived on his cousin’s farm near Vegreville, Alberta, and settled in Edmonton in 1954. Here he worked as a crane operator and at other jobs, helping build tunnels and other urban infrastructure. Mr. Malofij began his charitable activity after his retirement in 1984. A self-effacing person, he shunned publicity and established his fund anonymously. Donating for various purposes, he made the development of young people’s education his priority. At first he supported the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, Germany. On learning about the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, he soon became actively involved in its support. Once Ukraine obtained its independence, new opportunities became available to help students in Ukraine. The cause closest to Mr. Malofij's heart was assistance to students from the Sniatyn region studying at the Yurii Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi. Mr. Malofij recently began to support another important CIUS project—the excavation and restoration of Baturyn, the capital of Cossack Ukraine. He has also donated to other Ukrainian organizations in Canada and supported a number of projects in Ukraine. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2010
Bohdan Klid, Petro Malofij.
Stefania Szlek Miller
Michael M. Naydan
John-Paul Himka
Myroslav Shkandrij
Art
Volodymyr Kravchenko, Stephen Velychenko
Introduction: Overcoming Legacies of the Past. Observations on Ukraine’ s First Decade of Independence
Taras Kuzio
Introduction: Ukrainians in Canada between the Great War and the Cold War
Andrij Makuch
Iosif G. Dyadkin. Unnatural Deaths in the USSR, 1928-1954
S. Maksudov
Valerian Revutsky
Iosyp Stadnyk, Director and Actor of the Ukrainian Theatre of the City of Lviv in 1941-1942
Svitlana Maksymenko
Irena R. Makaryk. Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn: Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics
Vitaly Chernetsky
Is Gogol’s 1842 Version of Taras Bulba Really “Russified”?
Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj
Isabel Roskau-Rydel. Kultur an dev Peripherie des Habsburger Reiches: Die Geschichte des Bildungswesens und der kulturellen Einrichtungen in Lemberg von 1772 bis 1848
Israel Kleiner. From Nationalism to Universalism: Vladimir (Zeiev) Jabotinsky and the Ukrainian Question
Henry Abramson
From left - Professor Moshe Kaveh, president, Bar-Ilan University, Dr. Zenon Kohut, director, CIUS, Professor Moshe Rosman, organizer and host of conference
Volodymyr Smyrniv
Istvan Deak. Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918
Iu. I. Rymarenko and I. F. Kuras, eds. Etnonatsionalnyi Rozvytok Ukrainy: Terminy, Vyznachennia, Personalii
Oleksandr Maiboroda
Iu. Semenko ed. Pam'iati V. A. Dolenka
W. Roman Petryshyn
Iurii Andrukhovych’ s Recreations and Ukrainian Postmodernism
Slobodanka M. Vladiv-Glover
Roman Senkus
Iurii Badzo. Pravo Zhyty: Ukraina v Skladi SRSR, Liudyna v Systemi Totalitarnoho Sotsializmu
Anatolii Rusnachenko
Iurii Makar et al, eds. Ievropa: Idei ta Protsesy. Materialy Naukovoho Sympoziumu, 4-5 Chervnia 1998
Serhii Plokhy
Iurii Mytsyk, comp. Ukrainskyi Holokost, 1932-1933: Svidchennia Tykh, Khto Vyzhyv
Ettore Cinnella
Iurii Shapoval. Ukraina XX st.: Osoby ta Podii v Konteksti Vazhkoi Istorii
Hiroaki Kuromiya
Ivan Bilas. Represyvno-Karalna Systema v Ukraini, 1917-1953: Suspilnopolitychnyi ta Istoryko-Pravovyi Analiz
Marco Carynnyk
Ivan Dziuba—From Internationalism or Russification to Facets of a Crystal
History
Dissident
Ukrainian Literature
Ukrainian Dissent
Russification
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The Institute's fourth seminar of the current academic year took place on November 17. Michael Savaryn, first year law student at the University of Alberta, spoke on "Ivan Dziuba—From International- ism or Russification to Facets of a Crystal. The writers of the 1960s gave Ukrainian cultural life a spark of inspiration. Ivan Dziuba, a literary critic, symbolized the post-Stalin renaissance in Ukraine by becoming a political activist. For ten years, seemingly motivated by uncompromising conviction, Dziuba fearlessly criticized government policies; his actions culminated in the preparation and circulation of the now renowned dissertation Internationalism or Russification. Then, quite unexpectedly, Dziuba broke down under pressure and recanted. Valentyn Moroz attributes this downfall to Dziuba's lack of fervent faith combined with too much logic and "realism." Leonid Pliushch, on the other hand, believes that Dziuba lacked the necessary ideological persistence, and that his arguments were overly emotional. There is also a third interpretation Dziuba was part of a reformist movement in Ukraine whose success depended on a strong lobby for reform and compromise by Ukraine's top political leaders. Indeed, Shelest, the first secretary of the C.P.U. , encouraged efforts to improve the status of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine, and Dziuba naturally became a fullblown political activist at a time when the system seemed to offer genuine opportunities for reform. Two trends have been evident within the dissident movement in Ukraine: one consisted of reformists willing to compromise with the system while demanding reform, another consisted of uncompromising revolutionaries who lack contact with the political elite. When in 1972 the entire political elite in Ukraine was purged, Shelestivshchyna fell, and Dziuba, imprisoned at that time, saw his movement torn to shreds. He had become a dying remnant of a bygone era. Resistance was futile because his self-imposed duty was reformism, and he had adhered to it to the end of its possible life. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 2 (Winter 1977)
Michael Savaryn
Marta Horban-Carynnyk
Ivan Franko. Behind Decorum’ s Veil, and Turbulent Times: A Trilogy, trans. Roma Franko, ed. Sonia Morris
Marta Tarnawsky
Ivan Franko. Fox Mykyta. Trans. Bohdan Mel'nyk
Nadia O. Diakun
Ivan Katchanovski. Cleft Countries: Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova
Marta Dyczok
Ivan Kernytsky. Weekdays and Sunday
Jaroslaw Zurowsky
Ivan Kozachenko "A City on the Brink of War: Kharkiv During and After the “Russian Spring”
Ivan Kozachenko "A City on the Brink of War: Kharkiv During and After the “Russian Spring” After President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in late February 2014, pro-Russian protests swept eastern and southern regions of Ukraine. Driven by fear and outrage, people joined anti-Maidan demonstrations. They voiced demands for federalization, and then, inspired by the quick and nearly bloodless annexation of the Crimea, made separatist claims, demanding that southeastern regions of Ukraine be integrated into Russia. In the Russian media, these popular uprisings were dubbed the “Russian Spring” (by analogy with the “Arab Spring”) and were thought to herald the revival of Russia as a global superpower. While pro-Russian separatist revolts in Donetsk and Luhansk subsequently turned into armed struggle between Russia-backed combatants and the Ukrainian military, the city of Kharkiv remained under the control of Ukrainian authorities. Taking this outcome as a starting point for discussion, the lecture seeks to provide a more nuanced picture of the context and consequences of the pro-Russian uprising in Kharkiv. It is based on a study that tests theorizations of national identity and “networked social movements” against empirical data from qualitative content analysis of online groups on social media, expert interviews with local politicians, journalists, and social scientists, and in-depth interviews with anti-Maidan supporters. Ivan Kozachenko is a Stasiuk post-doctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. He completed his MA and BA in sociology at the V. N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv, Ukraine. He obtained his PhD in sociology from the University of Aberdeen, UK, in 2013. Dr. Kozachenko’s current project, “The Ukraine Crisis: Contested Identities, Social Media and Transnationalism,” considers the role of social media in competing Ukrainian social movements, exploring their articulation of national allegiance in online and offline public spaces. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies https://uofa.ualberta.ca/arts/research/canadian-institute-ukrainian-studies
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies published via YouTube.com
Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky, Istorychni Ese, 2 vols.
Serhy Yekelchyk
Ivan Maistrenko. Istoriia Komunistychnoi Partii Ukrainy
Ivan Rusnak. Ukrains'ka Literatura Kanady Informuvannia Natsionalnoi Svidomosti Kanadskykh Ukraintsiv
Orest T. Martynowych
Ivan Teslia and Evhen Tiutko. Istorychnyi Atlas Ukrainy
Thomas M. Prymak
Ivan Vanat. Narysy Novitn'oi Istorii Ukraintsiv Skhidnoi Slovachchyny. Kn. I (1918-1938)
Mykola Mushynka
Ivan Vyshensky and the Religious Polemics of the Seventeenth Century
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
XVII c.
Christianity
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On March 12, Dr. Taras Zakydalsky, who is currently associated with the Institute's Ukrainian Encyclopedia Project, gave the seminar, "Ivan Vyshensky and the Religious Polemics of the Seventeenth Century." Vyshensky's ascetic worldview was the source of practical solutions to the problems confronting the Orthodox Church in Ukraine at the turn of the seventeenth century. Believing that this life should be renounced for the sake of salvation, he denounced the love and pursuit of luxury, secular knowledge, and power. Since the Orthodox faith and the keeping of Christ's commandments were sufficient to salvation, each man was responsible for his own fate. All Christians, according to Vyshensky, were equal before God; hence, the faithful laity had the right to elect new priests and bishops to replace those who had joined the Union with Rome in 1596. Vyshensky' s epistles from Mt. Athos were not published in his lifetime, and must have had a very limited influence on the polemics of that period. He was not a deep or original thinker, but he was a passionate and forceful writer. His language, which is close to the vernacular, and his vivid imagery make him one of the first great writers in the history of Ukrainian literature. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Taras Zakydalsky
Ivan Zarudny and the Production of Religious Culture in Russia under Peter I
Russian Empire
Religion
XVIII c.
CIUS seminar audio. On December 5, 2013, Jelena Pogosjan (Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, U of A) gave a seminar on the topic: “Ivan Zarudny and the Production of Religious Culture in Russia under Peter I.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2014
Jelena Pogosjan
Ivo Banac and Frank E. Sysyn, eds. with the assistance of Uliana M. Pasicznyk. Harvard Ukrainian Studies Special Issue: Concepts of Nationhood in Early Modern Eastern Europe
John A. Armstrong
Ivo Banac and Paul Bushkovitch eds. The Nobility in Russia and Eastern Europe
Izrail (Israel) Kleiner. Natsionalni Problemy Ostannoi Imperii
Myroslav Yurkevich
J. Arch Getty. Origins Of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938
Bohdan Somchynsky
J. Hoberman. Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film between Two Worlds
Bohdan Y. Nebesio
J. J. Rousseau's Émile and P. Kulish's Views on Education
Romana M. Bahry
Robert B. Klymasz
Jacques Le Rider and Heinz Raschel, eds., La Galicie au temps des Habsbourg (1772–1918): Histoire, Société, Cultures en Contac
James E. Mace. Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: National Communism in Soviet Ukraine, 1918-1933
Jane Ellis, The Russian Orthodox Church: A Contemporary History
Andrii Krawchuk
Janice Kulyk Keefer, Honey and Ashes
Askold Melnyczuk
January 1987 — Stephania Bukachevska-Pastushenko Archival Fellowship
CIUS Staff
January 1987—Application Information for Stephania Bukachevska-Pastushenko Archival Fellowship
CIUS Press
January 1989—Important Reprint: Catalogues of Ukrainian Newspapers
January 1989—Ukrainian Ethnography Publication Series
CIUS Publications
January 1990—Пресове Повідомлення: Striletska Hromada Donations
January 1990—Пресове Повідомлення: Товариство української мови
Janusz Gruchała. Rząd Austriacki i Polskie Stronnictwa Polityczne w Galicji Wobec Kwestii Ukraińskiej (1890-1914)
Nevenka Koscevic
Jars Balan and G. N. Louise Jonasson, eds. Prairie Fire
Joseph Pivato
Jenny Alwart, Mit Taras Sevcenko Staat Machen: Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik in der Ukraine vor und nach 1991
Michael Moser
Jerzy Borzęcki. The Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of Interwar Europe
George Urbaniak
Joan L. Roccasalvo, The Plainchant Tradition of Southwestern Rus’
Andrij Hornjatkevyč
John (Ivan) Jaworsky. "Weaponizing" Federalism? Russia and the Debate ...
John (Ivan) Jaworsky. "Weaponizing" Federalism? Russia and the Debate on Federalism/Decentralization in Ukraine and Other Post-Soviet States There is a broad consensus on the need for administrative decentralization in Ukraine. Most discussions of this topic, however, downplay and sometimes demonize federalism as a viable option for the country, largely because of the way in which Russia's political leadership has aggressively promoted Ukraine's federalization. To understand the nature of recent debates on decentralization/federalism in Ukraine, and Russia's role in these debates, it is important to examine the logic of Moscow's earlier proposals for the federalization of Georgia and Moldova, as well as the current state of federalism in the Russian Federation. The presentation will also briefly address the nature and implications of Ukraine’s recent decentralization initiatives. John (Ivan) Jaworsky is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo. His research interests include regional issues and inter-ethnic relations in Ukraine, the legacies of Soviet dissent in the post-Soviet region, and civil-military relations in Ukraine, with a particular interest in the significance of the Russian Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol. DATE: FRIDAY, 4 DECEMBER 2015
John Anderson. Religion, State and Politics in the Soviet Union and Successor States
John C. Lehr, Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland
Suzanne Holyck Hunchuck
John Czaplicka, ed., Lviv: A City in the Crosscurrents of Culture
Mark Andryczyk
John Czaplicka, Nida Gelazis, and Blair Ruble, eds. Cities after the Fall of Communism: Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and European Identity
George O. Liber
John D. Klier and Shlomo Lambroza. Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History
John D. Pihach. Ukrainian Genealogy: A Beginner ’s Guide
John Kolasky. The Shattered Illusion: The History of Ukrainian Pro-Communist Organizations in Canada
John L. Scherer, ed. USSR: Facts and Figures Annual
David Marples
John Milner. Kazimir Malevich and the Art of Geometry
Adrienne Kochman
John R. Staples. Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe: Settling the Molochna Basin, 1783-1861
Heather J. Coleman
John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk, eds. Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine
Catherine Wanner
John-Paul Himka, Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians
Patricia A. Krafcik
John-Paul Himka. Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine: The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867-1900
Paul Robert Magocsi