The First Ukrainian Historiography Textbook in Independent Ukraine
Borys Biletsky and Pavlo Mykhailyna
The Formation of Modern National Identity and Interethnic Relations in the Galician Ukrainian Highlands: Some Findings of a Local/Oral History Project
Leonid Heretz
The Fourth Wave of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada as Depicted in the Literature of Ukrainian Canadianists
Immigration and Settlement
Contemporary Ukraine
Ukrainian Canadians
CIUS seminar audio. On November 7, 2008, Taras Lupul (Department of History, Political Science and International Relations, Yurii Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Fourth Wave of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada as Depicted in the Literature of Ukrainian Canadianists” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2009
CIUS
Taras Lupul
The Function of Time in Lina Kostenko’ s Dramatic Works
Walter Smyrniw
Lubomyr Luciuk and Zenowij Zwarycz
The Geography of the Soviet Famine of 1933
S. Maksudov
The Greek Catholic Rustic Gentry and the Ukrainian National Movement in Habsburg-Ruled Galicia
Andriy Zayarnyuk
The Historical and Literary Background to Ukrainian-Spanish Relations
History
Ukrainian Literature
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On February 12, Oleh Romanyshyn, who is currently completing his Ph.D. in the field of Spanish-Ukrainian literary relations, gave a seminar entitled, "The Historical and Literary Background to Ukrainian- Spanish Relations." Although Spain and Ukraine have never enjoyed formal relations, mutual awareness and contacts between the inhabitants of both countries (which probably began in the fifth century) were important in particular periods in history. There were many lines of communication: military, political, religious, educational, cultural, and personal. There is good evidence that during the Rus’ period of Ukraine’s history (particularly in the ninth and tenth centuries) a Slavic element played a significant military, political, and cultural role in Arabic Spain, and that Rus’ repeatedly came into military and commercial contact with Spanish Arabs. With the rise of the Cossack State, Ukraine became an important factor in European affairs, particularly in the seventeenth century: 1) as a tacit ally of Spain against the Ottoman Empire, and 2) as a bulwark against militant European Catholicism championed in the East by Poland, whose policies also drew strong support from Spain. Last but not least, trade in Christian slaves was always an important medium of continuous contact between Spaniards and Ukrainians until the eighteenth century. With the disappearance in 1775 of the last vestiges of Ukraine's independence, contacts with Spain became sporadic at best, and occurred on a personal and cultural level. After World War II a small Ukrainian community settled in Madrid. These historical and cultural relations between both countries can be looked upon as a background to what we may now call a "Spanish School" in Ukrainian literature. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Oleh Romanyshyn
The Holodomor and the Soviet Famines, 1931–33
Holodomor (Famine in Ukraine)
Famine in Ukraine
Soviet Ukraine
Stalin, Joseph
Peasants
Communist Party
Intelligentsia
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 Union. One of the scholars who began studying the famine in the late 1980s was Andrea Graziosi, now an internationally recognized specialist on the Soviet state and its policies toward the peasantry and one of the world’s leading authorities on the Holodomor. From 14 to 21 November 2009 he visited Toronto and Edmonton to lecture on “The Holodomor and the Soviet Famines, 1931–33” The title of the lecture is indicative of Dr. Graziosi s comprehensive approach to the study of the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine and the Kuban within the context of Soviet state policy toward the peasantry from 1917 to 1933 and, more particularly, the pan- Soviet famines of 1931–33, including the Kazakhstan famine-cum-epidemics of 1931–33. In the lecture, he analyzed the common causes of these famines and posited that the Ukrainian famine was the culminating act in a great war of the Soviet state and the Communist Party against the peasantry that began in 1917. Outlining the policies of the Soviet leaders and their consequences for the Soviet peasantry as a whole, Dr. Graziosi also took account of specific conditions in the non-Russian regions of the USSR that led the Stalin regime to treat them differently. Focusing on the Holodomor, he identified some of its special features and national characteristics. Particularly telling, in his view, were Moscow’s exclusive policies taken against the peasantry in Ukraine and the Kuban region in the North Caucasus, which led to an exceptionally large number of deaths there. If the mortality rate in the countryside in 1926 can be assigned the number 100 per 1,000 rural inhabitants, in 1933 it was almost 400 per 1,000 in Soviet Ukraine, while in the Russian SFSR it was about 140 per 1,000. Excluding Kazakhstan, then part of Russia, and the North Caucasus, where there was a large Ukrainian population, the death rate in the Russian republic in 1933 was about 110 per 1,000 rural inhabitants. An important factor in the high death rate was the decree forbidding and preventing peasants from Ukraine and the Kuban to leave for other areas of the USSR in search of food. Dr. Graziosi also noted other measures taken against Ukrainians in this period or immediately afterward. These included the mass purge of the Bolshevik Party in Soviet Ukraine, the persecution and physical destruction of the republic’s nationally conscious intelligentsia and middle-level national cadres, and the reversal of Ukrainization policies in Ukraine and their total abolition in the Russian SFSR. All these factors, as well as other special measures taken against Ukraine’s peasantry and its political and cultural elites, have prompted scholars and legal experts to raise the question of whether the Holodomor is a case of or an integral part of a genocide. Dr. Graziosi has concluded that the Holodomor was a genocide and that the Ukrainian-Kuban famine of 1932–33 fits the definition of genocide specified in the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, especially Article 2, Section C, which states that among genocidal acts are those “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” He noted that his own views on this question have evolved, for during the initial years of his study of the Holodomor he was not convinced of its genocidal nature. Dr. Graziosi believes that in time more and more scholars will come to the same conclusion as he did. While the prospect of a scholarly consensus promotes optimism with regard to general recognition of the Holodomor as genocide, Dr. Graziosi also believes that the Russian government will never acknowledge it as such, since this might provoke demands for monetary reparations to survivors and their descendants. Dr. Graziosi delivered his two lectures on the famine at the universities of Toronto and Alberta. The Toronto lecture, which took place on 17 November, was co-sponsored by the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto; the Toronto Office of CIUS; the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (Toronto Branch); and the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies. The Edmonton lecture, which took place on 20 November, was sponsored by CIUS. Dr. Graziosi also lectured at both universities on “Stalin’s Foreign and Domestic Policies: Dealing with the National Question in an Imperial Context, 1901–1926.” Andrea Graziosi is currently professor of history at the University of Naples “Federico II” and president (2007–11) of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (www.sissco.it). He also serves on the editorial boards of a number of French, English, Italian, Ukrainian, and American specialized journals. Since 1992 he has been a co-editor of the Moscowbased series Dokumenty sovetskoi istorii (Documents of Soviet History 15 volumes in print) and is a member of the editorial board of the series Istoriia stalinizma (History of Stalinism). His research interests have been largely in Soviet history, with a focus on the period leading up to the establishment of the Soviet state, its consolidation, and the triumph of Stalinism. Some of the topics he has researched in depth include the industrialization policies of the Soviet state, the Soviet state and the peasantry, the famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine and the Kuban region, other famines that took place in the Soviet Union, Stalinism, and Soviet nationality policies. Dr. Graziosi has worked in the archives of the Italian Foreign Ministry, which resulted in the book Lettere da Kharkov. La carestia in Ucraina e nel Caucaso del Nord nei rapporti dei diplomatici italiani, 1932–33 (Letters from Kharkiv: Famine in Ukraine and the North Caucasus in the Dispatches of Italian Diplomats, 1932–33; Turin, 1991 and Kharkiv, 2007), and in the Russian State Archives and former Communist Party Archives in Moscow. The results of this research, combined with data from previously available sources and new archival discoveries made by colleagues in Russia and other countries formerly under Soviet rule, have found their way into many of his publications, including The Great Soviet Peasant War: Bolsheviks and Peasants, 1917–1933 (Cambridge, Mass., 1996 and Moscow, 2001); Bol'sheviki I krest'iane na Ukraine, 1918–1919 gody (Bolsheviks and Peasants in Ukraine, 1918–1919; Moscow, 1997); A New, Peculiar State: Explorations in Soviet History (Westport, Conn., 2000); Guerra e rivoluzione in Europa 1905-1956 (War and Revolution in Europe, 1905–1956; Bologna, 2002; Kyiv and Moscow, 2005); LVRSS di Lenin e Stalin, 1914–1945 (The USSR of Lenin and Stalin, 1914–1945; Bologna, 2007); LVRSS dal trionfo al degrado, 1945–1991 (The USSR from Triumph to Degeneration, 1945–1991; Bologna, 2008); and Stalinism, Collectivization and the Great Famine (Cambridge, Mass., 2009). Andrea Graziosi’s lecture on the Holodomor represents a milestone in its study. He noted that over the past twenty years most of the important official documents concerning the Holodomor have been brought to light. His lecture combined an account of general scholarly accomplishments in researching the subject with his own analysis, which delineated the overall policy of the Soviet state toward the peasantry and specified the critical national factors that made the Holodomor so devastating in Ukraine and the Kuban. The lecture was recorded in both video and audio formats at the University of Alberta. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2010
Andrea Graziosi
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace: Its Significance for Ukrainian Studies
Lubomyr Y. Luciuk
The Hutsul Koliada and the Yara Group: Winter Songs and Rituals from the Carpathian Mountains
Folk
Folklore
Music
CIUS seminar audio. On October 16, 2012 Virlana Tkacz (Yara Arts Group, La MaMa Experimental Theater, New York), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Hutsul Koliada and the Yara Group: Winter Songs and Rituals from the Carpathian Mountains” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2013
Virlana Tkacz
The impact of the Yalta Agreement of 1945 on East European geopolitics
Geopolitics
Eastern Europe
World War II
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 press release of November 2, 2011.
Serhii Plokhii
The Implications of Ukrainian Studies in Korea
Ukrainian Studies
Ukrainian Literature Abroad
CIUS seminar audio. On November 18, 2010, Joung Ho Park (Institute of Russian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea), gave a seminar presentation on the topic: “The Implications of Ukrainian Studies in Korea.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2011
Joung Ho Park
The Influence of Populists on Ukrainian Grammar: The Plight of Active-Present Adjectival Participles in Ukrainian
Bohdan Strumins'kyj
The Influence of Socialist Realism on Soviet Montage: The End of St. Petersburg, Fragment of an Empire, and Arsenal
Murray Smith
The Influence of the Reformation on the History of Ukraine
James R. Payton, Junior
The Influence of the Ukrainian Revolution on Ukrainians in Canada, 1917-22
Nestor Makuch
CIUS Seminar Audio. The thirteenth Institute seminar at the University of Alberta took place on March 27, 1979. B. Krawchenko, research associate at the Institute and Visiting assistant professor of political science, spoke on "The Intelligentsia of Soviet Ukraine." The seminar focused on three issues. First, an analysis of the structure of the intelligentsia of Soviet Ukraine was given. Second, based on recent Soviet studies of inter-ethnic relations, the national attitudes of the intelligentsia were discussed; and finally, the question of recruitment into the intelligentsia was examined. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Bohdan Krawchenko
The Issue That Keeps Coming Back: Language Politics in Post-Orange Ukraine
Ukrainian Revolution
Politics
Ukrainian Language
CIUS Seminar audio. In this recording Dominique Arel discusses language politics in post-orange revolution Ukraine. Arel focuses on how spoken language explains political behaviour, particularly examining the linkage between the Orange vote and Ukrainian language "as spoken". He discusses language used as a marker of political recognition and the importance of the official governmental status of a language as an issue in Ukrainian politics. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2007
Dominique Arel
The Jewish Massacres in the Historiography of the Khmelnytsky Uprising
Frank E. Sysyn
The Journey (translated by Marta D. Olynyk)
Emma Andijewska
Marta Olynyk
The Khmelnytsky Uprising and Ukrainian Nation-Building
The Language of Polarized Femininities in Contemporary Ukraine
Alla Nedashkivska
The Last Debate with Stalin: Ukrainian Writers in Moscow, 1929
Russia
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"
Serhy Yekelchyk
John-Paul Himka
Janusz Radziejowski
The Legacy of Dmytro Chyzhevsky in Ukraine: Reconstruction, Research, Prospects and Tasks
Iryna Valiavko
The Legacy of the “Brazilian Fever”: The Ukrainian Colonization of Parana
Serge Cipko
The Leopolis Project: An Electronic Archive of the Art of Ukraine
Art
Primary Sources
Archive
Bibliography
CIUS seminar audio. Ihor Zhuk from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine presents on “The Leopolis Project: An Electronic Archive of the Art of Ukraine” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2007
Ihor Zhuk
The Limits of Britishness: Reflectionson Constitutional Institutions and Ethnic Affiliationin Light of the Irish Experience
John Hutchinson
Ukrainian Helsinki Group
Dissident
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The third Institute seminar in Edmonton was presented on 16 October by Markian Kowaluk, a graduate student in the Department of Slavic Languages. He spoke on "The Literary Career of Mykola Rudenko," which is also the topic of his master's thesis. Mykola Rudenko was born on 19 December 1920 in the village of Iurivka, Luhanske oblast, Ukraine, and grew up in the Donbas region among coal miners and steel workers. He entered the philological faculty of Kyiv State University in 1939, but in October of that year was drafted into the army. Critically wounded during the defence of Leningrad, he was left a permanent invalid. After the war Rudenko served as editor of R'adlanskyl pysmermyk and, from 1947 to 1950, worked as chief editor of Dnipro. Rudenko is the author of numerous books. His early poems reflect Communist ideals of heroism and devotion to the Party. One of his more acclaimed epic poems of the early period is "Leninhradtsi . " His later works are more about nature, people and social conditions in his homeland. His novels Viter v oblychehia and Ostarmla shablla became quite popular during the 1950s. Rudenko has also written short stories, popular science and science fiction. In the 1960s he underwent an ideological evolution, resulting in an open espousal of dissident ideas and leadership of the Ukrainian Helsinki group. Arrested in 1976, he was first placed in a psychiatric asylum, then in a prison camp where he remains to this day. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 1 (Winter 1979)
Markian Kowaluk
Chernobyl
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"
Maxim Tarnawsky
The Making and Tempering of the Ukrainian American
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The Institute’s third seminar was given by Dr. Myron Kuropas on "The Making and Tempering of the Ukrainian American." Between 1884 and 1915, the Rusin-American who emigrated to the United States with a weak ethnonational identity became a Ukrainian. This process of ethno-genesis involved three ethno-national streams which competed for the loyalty of the Rusin: the Russian stream, the Uhro- Rusin stream and the Ukrainian stream. The ethno-national identity of the Ukrainian American was tempered during a period in America which extended from 1915 to 1939. Three political ideologies competed for the loyalties of Ukrainian Americans during this era: communism, monarchism and nationalism. The role of the Ukrainian Catholic church during the period of ethno-genesis was crucial, as was the role of the Ukrainian National Association and its organ Svoboda. After 1915, a number of political organizations in America rose to the surface to take on the function of ethno-national clarification. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 1 (Winter 1979)
Myron Kuropas
The Making of an Opera: On the Eve of Ivan Kupalo
CIUS seminar audio. On October 20, 2011, Anna Pidgorna (Department of Music, University of Calgary), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Making of an Opera: On the Eve of Ivan Kupalo” (co-sponsored by the Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore). Found in CIUS Newsletter 2012
Anna Pidgorna
The Making of the Generation of 1917: Towards a Collective Biography
Olga Andriewsky
The McMaster Conference Ukraine and Russia in Their Historical Encounter
J. Marko Bojcun
The Mechanics of Building the First Catholic University on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Christianity
Education
Modern Ukraine
CIUS seminar audio. On November 23, 2007, Rev. Borys Gudziak of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, gave the annual Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture on the topic: “The Mechanics of Building the First Catholic University on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2008
Borys Gudziak
The Methodist Church and Ukrainians in Canada, 1901–1925: A Study in Assimilation Policy
Church
Methodist Rural Home Missions
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Part 2 audio begins at 4:45. The seminar, "The Methodist Church and Ukrainians in Canada, 1901-1925: A Study in Assimilation Policy," was given by Vivian Olender on October 23. Anglo-Celtic Canadians at the turn of the twentieth century believed Canada should develop as a homogeneous, white Anglo-Saxon and Protestant (WASP) nation; the concept of a pluralistic and multicultural society was incomprehensible. Ukrainian immigrants, in particular, were treated as members of an inferior race and culture. During this period Canadian Methodists believed WASP culture to be the Christian culture, and their church to be Church of Christ . Thus religious sanction was given to both the superiority of WASP culture and the prevailing prejudice against Ukrainians. In Methodist literature of the period, Ukrainians are described as "dirty, unkempt, and unlettered children." Ukrainians are similar in appearance to Anglo-Celts but "most of them are shorter and stouter and maybe more dark faces." They also wear a "strange attire of innumerable layers" so that it is difficult to distinguish the men from the women. An extensive programme of home missions was established in Ukrainian bloc settlements on the prairies to preach the gospel of salvation by assimilation and adoption of WASP, middle-class values. Methodists concentrated on the Ukrainians because they belonged to the inferior Slavic race and were members of a decadent church. Second, Ukrainians immigrated in large numbers and were highly visible in their traditional peasant clothes. Third and most important, Ukrainians settled in large bloc colonies which hindered assimilation. Methodists were concerned that the unassimilated Ukrainians would use the power of their vote to bring Canada down to the Ukrainian level. Converts who joined the Methodist church were alienated from their fellow Ukrainians because they were compelled to accept the WASP lifestyle and with it, a condemnation of Ukrainian culture. Ukrainians considered these individuals to be traitors. Ironically, the main result of the Methodist home mission programme was to reinforce the identification of Ukrainian ethnicity with the Ukrainian Catholic or Orthodox churches. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Vivian Olender
Drama
Poetry
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The Institute's seminar series at the University of Alberta commenced on 18 September. Dr. Andrij Hornjatkevyc, assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Slavic languages, spoke on "The Music of the Dumy." Dr. Hornjatkevyc first addressed the question of the nature of the folk epic. It is an oral narrative that, in effect, is created anew at each performance. This skill is acquired through a lengthy period of study with a master during which the disciple acquires the "grammar" (both lexical and musical) of the art form. The speaker then showed how this process is applied to the rendering of Ukrainian dumy. He explained the compositional structure of the duma text and dwelt on the melodic mode in particular. Dr. Hornjatkevyc concluded his presentation by performing the duma about Marusia of Bohuslav while accompanying himself on the bandura. A lively discussion followed the presentation. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 1 (Winter 1979)
Andrij Hornjatkevyc
The Nation of Cain: Poles in Samiilo Velychko’ s Skazanye
The National Awakening in Ukraine, 1859–1863: Students in Kharkiv and Kyiv Universities
Nationalism
Youth
Kyiv
Activism
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Dr. Roman Serbyn, of the history department at Universite du Quebec a Montreal, presented this year's last seminar which was entitled, "The National Awakening in Ukraine, 1859–1863: Students in Kharkiv and Kiev Universities." Heightened student activism emerging in post- Crimean Russia took on a specific, national coloring in the two universities situated in Ukraine. During this first "movement to the people", student activists drew closer to the common folk and, through the Ukrainian peasantry and the still un-Russified nascent working class, rediscovered Ukrainian language and culture. As "khlopophilism" blended with "Ukrainophilism" student activism found intellectual reinforcement in the Romantic literary tradition of the popular works of Taras Shevchenko and Marko Vovchok, as well as in the Ukrainian schools of Polish and Russian literature. A desire to promote the Ukrainian language, as well as a feeling of social debt, prompted students to set up Ukrainian language Sunday schools. More radical students organized in clandestine groups such as the revolutionary-minded Kharkiv Secret Political Society and the more moderate, or at least more heterogenous, Kyiv Student Hromada. Ukrainian student radicalism, leaning towards an eventually autonomous if not completely independent Ukraine, was acquiring a national consciousness and beginning to assert itself as a movement allied to, but independent of, Polish and Russian movements. The Ukrainian movement was also winning a grudging recognition, from Poles and Russians, as a partner in the common struggle against the tsarist regime. This development was cut short by the aborted Polish insurrection and renewed repression against Ukrainians. From then on, Ukrainophilism fell back into political moderation while the Russian radical movements siphoned off Ukrainian radicals into their own increasingly centralist organizations. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Roman Serbyn
The Nationalization of Identities: Ukrainians in Belgium, 1920-1950
Machteld Venken and Idesbald Goddeeris
The Nativist-Westernizer Controversy in Ukraine: The End or the Beginning?
Mykola Riabchuk
The Novelization of the Pamphlet: Aesthetic Compromise as Argument in Mykola Khvylovy’ s Woodcocks
Peter Sawczak
Primary Sources to Immigration and Settlement at the Public Archives of Canada, Part Two
Nadia Kazymyra
The Official Soviet View of Ukrainian Historiography
Stephen Velychenko
The Origins of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1648
Stepan Velychenko
The Origins of Ukrainian Statist Historiography in the Context of Political, Ideological, Cultural, and Generational Change
Bohdan Klid
The Ostroh Academy as a Factor in the Education of Ukraine’s Elites Today
CIUS seminar audio. Following a short documentary film on the rebirth of the Ostroh Academy, Ihor Pasichnyk (Rector, Ostroh Academy National University), spoke on “The Ostroh Academy as a Factor in the Education of Ukraine’s Elites Today.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2007
Ihor Pasichnyk
The Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine and ‘The Cat’: Politics Meets Folklore
Elections
CIUS seminar audio. On October 12, 2012 CIUS hosted a round table on the topic: “The Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine and ‘The Cat’: Politics Meets Folklore” (cosponsored by the Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography). Presenters included Bohdan Harasymiw (professor emeritus, U of Calgary), Natalie Kononenko (MLCS, U of A), David Marples (Department of History and Classics, U of A), and Myroslava Uniat (MLCS, U of A). Found in CIUS Newsletter 2013
Bohdan Harasymiw, Natalie Kononenko, David Marples, Myroslava Uniat
The Parliamentary Elections of 30 September in Ukraine: A Preliminary Assessment of Results
CIUS seminar audio. In this recording, Bohdan Harasymiw (CIUS and the University of Calgary), David Marples (CIUS and the Department of History and Classics, U of A), Mykola Riabchuk (Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor, Departments of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies and History and Classics, U of A) give a preliminary assessment of results of the parliamentary elections of 30 September 2007 in Ukraine. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2008
Bohdan Harasymiw, David Marples, Mykola Riabchuk
The Peasant and Alcohol in Eastern Galicia in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Note
Stella M. Hryniuk
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Bohdan Chomiak and Jars Balan, graduate students at the University of Alberta, presented a joint seminar entitled, "The Peasant Revolution in Ukraine" on April 3, 1979. The seminar began with a brief introduction of three parts: (1) an examination of the current state of peasant studies; (2) a comparison between various Marxist and Narodnik (Populist) theoretical positions on the peasantry and the political perceptions held by the peasantry prior to the revolution; and finally, (3) an examination of the Ukrainian revolution, 1917 to 1921, whose unique features were described in comparison to the conditions in revolutionary Russia. The conclusion of the introduction gave the central themes for the seminar: a critical examination of the theoretical assumptions of Populism and Marxism concerning the peasantry, and an interpretation of the events of the peasant revolution in Ukraine. The theoretical assumptions of Populism and Marxism did not have time to change during the revolution, and these movements acted on the basis of their prior beliefs. The speakers showed that both Marxism and Populism had inaccurate interpretations of the peasantry. The Marxist interpretation of the peasantry was inadequate because it had an unjustified belief in rural idiocy and in the cultural superiority of industry and city life. The Populist interpretation was incorrect because it overindulged in a romantic vision of the peasantry. The speakers traced both theories historically. The peasant revolution occurred because of land hunger; war and revolution offered them the means to resolve this problem. The peasants measured different and successive regimes on the basis of their agrarian policies. The reaction of the peasantry to each regime manifested itself in four types of revolt: (1) land distribution, (2) cessation of cultivation, (3) political otamanschyna, and (4)banditry. Both speakers concluded that the peasant revolts stemmed from the failure of each regime to understand peasants’ needs; that the Bolsheviks won because they had urban support and because they gave concessions to the peasantry; and that the Bolsheviks would have lost had the peasantry not exhausted itself militarily. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Bohdan Chomiak, Jars Balan
The Peter Krawchuk Ponds at the National Archives of Canada
Myron Momryk
The Poetics of Liminality: Bohdan Ihor Antonych in the Context of Interwar Polish Literature
Lidia Stefanowska
The Poetry of Kostiantyn Moskalets, Natalka Bilotserkivets, and Viktor Kordun
Halyna Koscharsky
The Polish Opposition and the Ukrainian Question
Taras Kuzio
The Political Thought of Soviet Ukrainian Dissent
Ivan L. Rudnytsky
The Politics of Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Beyond Brubaker
Volodymyr Kulyk
The Politics of High Culture: Petro Karmansky’ s Mavp'iache Zerkalo
Myroslav Shkandrij
The Politics of Multiculturalism: a Ukrainian-Canadian Memoir
Multiculturalism
Canadian History
Alberta
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
Canadian Ukrainians
Linguistics
Manitoba
Memoirs
XX c.
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 east-central Alberta and educated at the universities of Alberta, Minnesota, and Harvard, Manoly R. Lupul combined the outlook of a liberal secular humanist with a conviction that modern society could be enriched by the cultural potential of ethnicity. His concern for the expansion of minority linguistic and cultural rights in Canada was sharpened by a direct encounter with the policy of Russification in Ukraine during a sabbatical leave in the late 1960s. Dr. Lupul’s involvement in Canadian multiculturalism began with the drafting and passage of Alberta’s first school legislation for bilingual programs (1971); similar laws were subsequently enacted in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. He went on to serve as an executive member of the Canadian Consultative Council on Multiculturalism and a member of the Alberta Cultural Heritage Council. In 1976 Dr. Lupul became the founding director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, the first publicly funded institution of its kind outside Ukraine. He contributed significantly to the development of the multiculturalism section of the Canadian constitution (1982). This memoir, based not only on personal writings and recollections but also on extensive documentation, brings together much information previously unavailable in print. In his frank account, Dr. Lupul offers unrivalled first-person insight into the aspirations that gave rise to Canada’s policy of multiculturalism and the interplay of forces that shaped and blunted its development. The book will appeal to readers interested in Canadian culture and politics and, more generally, in the problem of promoting minority-group rights in democratic societies.
Manoly R. Lupul
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS)
CIUS Press
The Portrayal of Ukrainians in the Works of Morley Callaghan, W.O. Mitchell, Margaret Laurence, and Sinclair Ross
Ethnicity
Canadian Literature
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On January 29, a seminar was presented by Anna Balan of Toronto entitled, "The Portrayal of Ukrainians in the Works of Morley Callaghan, W.O. Mitchell, Margaret Laurence, and Sinclair Ross." The speaker focussed on four Ukrainian characters in four novels by prominent Anglo- Canadian writers. All of these characters are Canadian-born, well educated professionals, and not pioneers. They are: Ann Prychodko in Morley Callaghan's They Shalt Inherit the Earth Peter Svarich in W.O. Mitchell's Who has Seen the Wind, Nick Kazlik in Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God and Nick Miller in Sinclair Ross' Sawbones Memorial. The speaker summarized the plots of the four novels, showed the role each of these characters played in the novel, and discussed how their ethnicity was depicted. She concluded that the Ukrainians were credibly. and effectively portrayed in all four novels. The more recently a novel had been written, the more central was the role played by the Ukrainian character, and the more the writer reflected changing attitudes of the Anglo-Canadian majority towards Ukrainians —from acceptance, through envy, to identification. Unfortunately, all of the Ukrainian characters are portrayed only as individuals within an Anglo-Canadian community. Although all four authors should be commended for introducing representatives of the ethnic component in Canadian society into their writing, the ethnic diversity of the Canadian reality has not yet truly been explored or developed by Anglo- Canadian writers. This must be done if Canadian literature is to be both relevant to all Canadians and present a truer picture of Canadian society. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Anna Balan
The Present State of Ukrainian Bibliography and Its Critical Tasks
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On December 6, Edward Kasinec, librarian at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute , gave a seminar entitled, "The Present State of Ukrainian Bibliography and Its Critical Tasks." Mr. Kasinec began his seminar with a frank evaluation of the failure of Ukrainians in North America to develop Ukrainian bibliography as a form of professional scholarship. Despite the physical destruction of Ukrainian librarians and libraries in the 1930s, during the war, and even recently with the burning of the library of the Academy of Science of the Ukrainian S.S.R., Ukrainian librarians in North America have failed to systematically structure and make easily available Ukrainian collections and bibliographies, leaving scholars with major gaps in their research. In recent years the climate for Ukrainian bibliographic work has changed: the National Archives in Ottawa, the Kennan Institute of the Smithsonian complex, and the Library of Congress in Washington are all now involved in surveying and preserving Ukrainian materials. Consequently a series of important projects now need to be undertaken. There is a need to begin to teach courses on the history of Ukrainian bibliography, and on works by regional, pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary bibliographers. There is a need to develop research guides and indices for material from Ukraine and for materials that were produced by the Ukrainians in immigration. Indices for newspapers are particularly important. There is a need to establish who the best dealers are in Ukrainian materials, to develop better systems of classification and to upgrade the size of Ukrainian collections (relative to Russian collections) held at North American libraries. Mr. Kasinec suggested six priorities: a comprehensive bibliographical research guide to serve as an introduction to specific disciplines, a survey of the elements of the total book production on Ukrainian territory, reprinting classics in hard copies, developing a multiple genre approach to historical research, circulating information on low run Soviet publications available in the West (i.e., indices to serial publications), and locating and collecting unique materials held in private collections. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Edward Kasinec
The Problem of Bessarabia and Bukovyna: the Intersection of the Sino-Soviet and Soviet-Rumanian Disputes
Alexander Motyl'
Bohdan Rubchak
The Public Record Office: An Important Source for Archival Materials on Ukraine
The Rape of Civilization: Recurrent Structure in Myroslav Irchan’ s Prose
The Refugee experience : Ukrainian displaced persons after World War II
Resettlement of Ukrainians
Concentration Camps
Displaced Persons
Displacement
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 States, Canada, Australia, the countries of Latin America, and others), the approach in this volume assumes the primary importance of the pre-immigration experience. The twenty-five contributions to this book present a detailed analysis of the social conditions that shaped the Ukrainian displaced persons, with particular attention to the five-year period that many of them spent in internationally organized resettlement camps. The essays in this volume are grouped in nine sections covering the most important facets of the displaced persons’ lives. These include an assessment of the DP phenomenon in the context of Ukrainian history; its demographic dimensions; an examination of the economic and organizational structure of the DP camps; the role of political parties and nationalist ideology; the activities of the Catholic and Orthodox churches; the establishment of schools and women’s organizations; the proliferation of literary, cultural, and scholarly activity; Soviet efforts at repatriation and the Allied response; the resettlement of Ukrainians in the USA and Canada; and a sociological and psychological interpretation of the DP experience. Four contributions by eyewitnesses round out the volume.
Wsevolod Isajiw, Yury Boshyk, Roman Senkus
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The Religious Programme of the Union of Brest in the Context of the Counter-Reformation in Eastern Europe
Mikhail Dmitriev
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
Natalia Kovaliova
The Response of the Ukrainian Canadians to the Displaced Persons Situation in Europe
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Michael Savaryn, a law student at the University of Alberta, delivered the sixth Institute seminar in Edmonton on January 16 with the presentation, "The Response of the Ukrainian Canadians to the Displaced Persons Situation in Europe". He examined the responses in Edmonton's Ukrainski Visti , edited by the late John Esaiw. The speaker quoted from a number of editorials which both appealed to Ukrainian Canadians for funds, clothing and other supplies, and pleaded with the Canadian Government to allow largescale immigration of Ukrainian refugees to Canada. Research on the life of the Ukrainians, who scattered throughout Western Europe after World War II in terrible fear of forced deportation to the Soviet Union, is scarce. Little is known about the number, qualifications, and plans of the refugees, and there is little evidence about how many were in fact deported, and how many managed to find their relatives or refuge in different countries. However, one fact is clear: their fate evoked a great deal of sympathy from Ukrainian Canadians, who even visited them in the Displaced Persons camps. The late Anthony Hlynka, a Ukrainian M.P. from Vegreville, Alberta, spoke on their behalf in the House of Commons. The actual amounts of money, clothing, food, affidavits, etc., raised by Ukrainian Canadians for their countrymen is not known, and it is time to research this subject. Indeed, it is time to record the experience of the post- World War II Ukrainian immigration generally, for the history of the Ukrainian Canadians without this chapter would be incomplete. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Michael Savaryn
The Return of a Symbol: Shevchenko's Kateryna in Contemporary Soviet Ukrainian Literature
Jaroslav Rozumnyj
The Reverend Semen Sawchuk and the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada
Oleh W. Gerus
The Revolution at Eighty: Reconstructing Past Identities after the “Linguistic Turn”
The Rhetoric and Politics of Kotliarevsky's Eneida
Marko Pavlyshyn
The Role of Ukrainian Sports Teams, Clubs, and Leagues, 1924–52
K. W. Sokolyk
Doug Whyte
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Surveillance of the Ukrainian Community in Canada
The Russian Imperial Authorities and Yevhen Chykalenko’ s Rozmovy pro Selske Khoziaistvo
David Saunders
The Russian Social Democrats and the National Question
L. Rybalka [Lev Iurkevych]
The Search for the Ideal Place in Panteleimon Kulish's Chorna Rada
Panteleimon Kulish, Chorna Rada
Ludmilla Bereshko-Hunter
The Soviet Destruction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 1929-36
Bohdan R. Bociurkiw
The Soviet Union through the Eyes of the New York Times
Bolshevik Revolution
Communist Party of Ukraine
Imperial Russia
Russia–Ukraine
Ukrainian National Movement
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 events leading to Ukraine's sovietization, the author analyses Marxist theory on the national question, as well as the socio-economic and political situation in Ukraine on the eve of and during the revolution. This book was originally published in Stockholm in 1960 under the title The Russian Communist Party and the Sovietization of Ukraine: A Study in the Communist Doctrine of the Self-Determination of Nations. The second edition has been revised and illustrations have been added.
Jurij Borys
Donors of the Stasiuk Program: Anna Stasiuk, Eudokia Stasiuk (1898-1987), Vasyl Stasiuk (1887-1960), Yakiv Stasiuk (1909-1978)
The State of Civil Society in Independent Ukraine
Oxana Prisiajniouk
The Status of Archives, Museums, and Academic Freedom in Ukraine
CIUS seminar audio. In this recording Ruslan Zabily gives a seminar about the status of archives, museums, and academic freedom in Ukraine.
Ruslan Zabily
The Steppe as Inspiration in David Burliuk’ s Art
The Study of Ukraine's History in China: Problems and Tasks
Zhao Yunzhong
CIUS History
Taras, Marusia, and Odarka Suchowersky in Australia on August 1, 1956
The Symbol of Little Russia: The Pokrova Icon and Early Modern Ukrainian Political Ideology
Serhii Plokhy
The Theme of Man-godhood in Oles' Berdnyk’s Science Fiction
The Tragedy of Canada's White Ethnics: A Constitutional Post-Mortem
Iurii Shapoval
The Transformation and Formation of Social Strata and Their Place in the Ukrainian National Movement in Nineteenth-Century Galicia
The Triumph of Particularism: The Kuban Cossacks in 1917
The Trope of Displacement and Identity Construction in Post-Colonial Ukrainian Fiction
Vitaly Chernetsky
The Tsymbaly Maker and His Craft: The Ukrainian Hammered Dulcimer
Ethnography
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 University of Alberta. See Choral Music, Folks songs, Carols, and Ballad in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
Mark Jaroslav Bandera
Co-published by the Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography, University of Alberta
University of Alberta copy in the Richard Spafford Western Canadian Legacy Collection
The Ukrainian Helsinki Group: A Postmortem
Victor Haynes