Natalia Kobrynska: A Formulator of Feminism
Feminism
Ukrainian Literature
Women
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. As a participant in the conference on the status of women in eastern Europe, Dr. Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak gave an unscheduled Institute seminar on "Natalia Kobrynska: A Formulator of Feminism." The seminar took place on October 26, 1978. Although Natalia Kobrynska is well known as a turn-of-the-centttry author of short stories, her role in the women’s emancipation movement is also significant. The speaker first briefly outlined Kobrynska’ s biography and discussed her evolution as a writer. Her leading role in the Ukrainian women’s movement was then examined. She was in the forefront of the movement for rural day care centers and communal kitchens; she also edited women's almanacs and organized women’s societies. In many respects, Kobrynska was far ahead of her time and consequently encountered much opposition from her conservative contemporaries. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
CIUS
Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak
Ukrainian Canadian Newspaper Holdings in Canada
Ukrainian Canadians
Press
Ethnicity
Bibliography
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The second Institute seminar took place on October 31 when Frances Swyripa, research associate in the Institute, spoke on "Ukrainian- Canadian Newspaper Holdings in Canada." The speaker indicated where Ukrainian-Canadian newspapers can be found in Canada, i.e., provincial archives and libraries, the Public Archives of Canada and National Library, university libraries, public libraries, and, most importantly, private institutions, and private collections in the Ukrainian community. The extent, condition, and organization of individual holdings is important, especially for the preservation of a record of the Ukrainian press in Canada and easy access for researchers to defunct publications or early issues of today's press. F. Swyripa outlined the microfilming process, including provincial and national microfilming programs, and policies regarding the permanent preservation of the ethnic press. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Frances Swyripa
Russia and Ukraine: The Difference that Peter I Made
History
Russian Empire
Politics
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Part 1 Audio begins at 3:35. In his presentation, "Russia and Ukraine: The Difference that Peter I Made," Dr. O. Subtelny, Associate Professor, Department of History, Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, argued that the state, as an institution, does not provide a useful framework for analyzing Ukrainian-Russian relations (or relations between Cossack Ukraine and Moscovite tsardom) prior to the period of Peter I for two reasons: (1) the two basic pillars of the early modern state - a standing army and a full-fledged bureaucracy - were non-existent in the Hetmanate, and only began to evolve in seventeenth century Muscovy; and (2) the basic functions of the absolutist state - coordination, coercion, and extraction of wealth - were inoperative in the tsars' relations with the Hetmanate. If the institutions of the state did not bind the two lands together, what did? The only other means by which two very different lands could be linked in early modern Europe was some form of vassalage. The Treaty of Pereiaslav established a modified form of vassal relationship between the Zaporozhian Host and the Muscovite tsar. The point of these modifications was that they allowed the tsar to preserve the forms of Muscovite autocracy (his refusal to swear an oath to his new subjects), while it gave the Ukrainians the terms which all vassals could expect of their new sovereign (non-interference in internal affairs, etc.). The significance of Peter I's innovations was that they abolished an essentially personal relationship between the Ukrainians and the tsar and created the institutions which could encompass both Ukrainians and Russians in one common state. It was no longer a common monarchy but a common state which linked Ukrainians and Russians: all the innovations which Peter I introduced in Ukraine fit neatly into the basic functions of statehood. Only after Peter I's changes were implemented did the tsar have the capacity to pursue coordinative, coercive, and extractive policies in Ukraine. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Orest Subtelny
Growing Up in Halychyna in the 1930's: A Ukrainian Canadian Perspective
Primary Sources
Nationalism
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On November 6, 1978, the CIUS seminar heard the unique reminiscences of Stanley Frolick, a well-known leader in Toronto's Ukrainian community. As a young Ukrainian Canadian, Frolick spent nine years, from 11 to 20 (1932-41), living and studying in Halychyna. In sharp contrast to the Alberta mining town where he had been born, Frolick found the Ukrainians of the Carpathians rich in folk culture; this had a profound effect on the young student giving him a sense of belonging and security. Once a decision had been made to stay in Halychyna, Frolick' s uncle, a local priest, ensured that he had private tutoring from one of the many unemployed Ukrainians who were prevented from getting government teaching positions, and from whom Frolick first experienced the intense nationalism of inter-war Halychyna. The nationalism was rooted in three factors: the recent loss of an independent state in the revolutionary period; Polish repression of the population; and the uncompromising struggle of the youthful OUN. As a resident student in a "bursa" of the "gymnasium" in Stanyslaviv, Frolick experienced the rather spartan educational facilities and primitive teaching methods of inter-war Halychyna. The seminar was told of the class distinctions in society, which were expressed socially at the bursa through a formal system of salutation and deference. Classmates could address themselves as "ty"; students two grades above were addressed as "vy" or "vy tovaryshu"; and students of the highest grades were addressed as "vy pane tovaryshu." The seminar concluded with an evaluation of Ukrainian and Canadian educational systems. Education was the privilege of a small Ukrainian elite in inter-war Poland. In comparison to the unpoliticized individualism and egotism of Canadian students, Ukrainian students of the time were imbued with a sense of collectivism and responsibility to serve their people. A copy of the seminar paper is available in the fugitive file of unpublished papers in the Institute's library, at the University of Alberta. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Stanley Frolick
Saving the Displaced Persons: The Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau
Resettlement of Ukrainians
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Stanley Frolick presented a second seminar on November 13 entitled, "Saving the Displaced Persons: The Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau," in which he described the activities of the Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau (CURB) from its inception after the end of World War II to 1946 — the period of his personal involvement. He stressed that this was a little-known, yet most fascinating chapter of Ukrainian-Canadian history, which reflects the role Ukrainian emigrations ought to play. A full, objective and scholarly account of this history has still to be written. CURB was formed through the voluntary initiative of the Ukrainian Canadian Servicemen's Association (UCSA) in London as a result of Allied soldiers' encounters with Ukrainian POWs, displaced persons, Ostarbeitev3 Soviet deserters, and concentration camp inmates. UCSA began to provide material support with help from Ukrainian women's organizations in Canada and the United States. CURB'S role changed when the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the Red Cross took over material support of the displaced persons. Its main role became the defense of Ukrainians against forcible repatriation, Ukrainian resettlement to Western countries, and combating Soviet propaganda through the Ukrainian Information Service. Although CURB was sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Relief Fund and the United Ukrainian American Relief Fund (member organizations of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America respectively) problems arose because it did not represent these organizations. Thus there was a constant tug of war between CURB and UCC/UCCA. The speaker described in detail the structure and inner workings of CURB, the manner in which military zones functioned, and visits by CURB representatives to POW and DP camps. The presentation was concluded by Dr. Bolubash's short account of the experiences of the Ukrainian DPs at Heidenau with the Soviet repatriation commission. He contrasted this experience with the arrival of CURB representatives at that camp. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Housing Segregation and Mobility of Ukrainians in Manchester
Immigration and Settlement
Class
Culture
Bilingualism
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On November 14, Roman Petryshyn, research associate at the Institute, spoke on "Housing Segregation and Mobility of Ukrainians in Manchester." The study reported on survey research, consisting of a mail questionnaire and interview schedule, completed in 1975 with a selection of Ukrainian community members in Manchester, England. Results revealed a general housing pattern which was classified as follows: 1947-49, European voluntary workers' hostels; 1948-52, residency with Ukrainian landlords and friends; 1950, first home ownership in row housing; 1962, second home ownership in semi-detached housing; 1970, third home ownership. The improved economic position of respondents was suggested as an explanation for the mobility of most Ukrainians out of the urban immigrant centre and into better quality housing located away from the inner-city. The housing experience of Ukrainians in Manchester was tested against a model of immigrant housing proposed by D. JV Smith (1978). It was found that the Ukrainian experience was adequately explained by Smith's model, which indicated why Ukrainians settled in decaying metropolitan centres, how a pattern of rental to fellow Ukrainians emerged and developed, and why initial settlement took place in a limited area and then dispersed. The discussion which followed the presentation explored the question of whether class or cultural factors provided better explanations for housing behaviour among Ukrainians. The speaker, arguing the former, suggested that for second and subsequent generations of Ukrainians in Canada, the development of cooperative housing projects—Ukrainian-speaking urban villages—could be a useful method to enable small populations to pursue alternative cultural lifestyles. This would apply to groups who wished to practice bilingual living and the development of ethnic minority culture. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Roman Petryshyn
P. Crath and T. Pavlychenko: Nationalism vs. Socialism in Ukrainian-Canadian Literature
Ukrainian Canadian Literature
Ukrainian Communism in Canada
Socialism
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The final Institute seminar of the first term was held on December 5 when Dr. Yar Slavutych of the Department of Slavic Languages, University of Alberta, spoke on "P. Crath and T. Pavlychenko: Nationalism vs. Socialism in Ukrainian-Canadian Literature." The speaker examined the numerous poetic (seven collections) and two scholarly works of the active socialist Paul Crath [Pavlo Krat], who came to Canada in 1907 and proceeded to spread revolutionary ideas, departing from socialism to become a Protestant minister. As an ardent Ukrainian patriot, P. Crath attacked the Russian tsarist regime and yearned for an independent Ukraine during World War I. The speaker then discussed the only book of T. Pavlychenko ' s poetry Dukh natsii (Spirit of Nation). This author was a professor of the University of Saskatchewan and a known nationalist leader in Canada. In his poetry the author maintained that the strong are victorious and reject laws of higher justice. Only the cultivation of a mighty will and biological force can assure liberation from captivity. This applied both to the biological world and to nations in their historical development. The speaker presented Crath and Pavlychenko as talented poets who brought new and interesting ideas to Ukrainian-Canadian literature, and who deserve deeper and more comprehensive study. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Yar Slavutych
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
Ukrainian Language Instruction in Great Britain and Alberta: Similarities and Contrasts
Education
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The seminar, "Ukrainian Language Instruction in Great Britain and Alberta: Similarities and Contrasts," was presented on November 28 by Ihor Kruk, M.A. candidate in Slavic literature at the University of Alberta. The speaker drew a parallel between the Ukrainian educational systems developed by the Ukrainian-speaking communities of Edmonton and Britain, 60,000 and 20,000 respectively. Whereas the British Ukrainian community has a "ridna shkola" system of 810 pupils in 30 schools with 116 teachers (1977-78), there were 528 pupils in 11 schools with 43 teachers in Edmonton (1978-79). A comparison of the two systems indicates that the British Ukrainians have a more coordinated system of "ridni shkoly" which includes a centralized educational program, visits by inspectors and standardized final examinations. Britain has only one professor at a public university who can teach Ukrainian; Edmonton has five professors of Ukrainian at the University of Alberta. Edmonton also has a bilingual programme in eight schools, with over 700 students in public and separate schools combined, a programme which does not exist in Britain. Alberta also has 34 junior high schools and 18 senior high schools which offer public instruction in Ukrainian. Nothing comparable exists in Britain's state educational systems, though "0" level examinations are available to those who study Ukrainian privately. The speaker also discussed the historical development of Ukrainian language instruction both in state and private "Saturday" schools, programs of teaching and teaching methods, the falling language fluency of younger generations, and teaching requirements for the future. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Ihor Kruk
The Response of the Ukrainian Canadians to the Displaced Persons Situation in Europe
Displaced Persons
World War II
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 Historical and Literary Background to Ukrainian-Spanish Relations
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 Portrayal of Ukrainians in the Works of Morley Callaghan, W.O. Mitchell, Margaret Laurence, and Sinclair Ross
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
Ukrainian-Canadian Communists and the Kryza in Alberta
Communism
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. "Ukrainian-Canadian Communists and the Kryza in Alberta" was the topic of the seventh Institute seminar of the current academic year at the University of Alberta. Mr. Andrij Makuch, a recent B.A. (honours) graduate in history, and now a research assistant, gave the seminar on January 30, 1979. Ukrainian members of the Communist Party of Canada formed the backbone of the party since its inception in 1921, but played a minimal role in its key functions. They were restricted largely to activity within their foreign-language unit. When the Communist Party undertook a campaign to radicalize all Prairie farmers after the onset of the Great Depression, it sent the Ukrainian farmers into areas where they already had a degree of support, rather than into other fields. Their organizational efforts invoked manifestations of loyalty to their adopted country by Ukrainian patriots and an attempted disassociation of communism from Ukrainians. This was both a recognition of the tenuous acceptance Ukrainians had in Canadian society and a reflection of their genuine belief that the communists were undermining the British ideals which they had adopted as their own. The manner in which these forces played themselves out is best illustrated by events in Alberta, which had the largest Ukrainian block settlement in Canada and was an area of strong communist support. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Andrij Makuch
Taras Shevchenko: The Great Ukrainian Romanticist
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The ninth Institute seminar of the 1978-79 academic year took place on February 20. Dr. Oleh Zujewskyj, a professor in the Department of Slavic languages at the University of Alberta, read a seminar entitled, "Taras Shevchenko: The Great Ukrainian Romanticist." The speaker emphasized that Shevchenko's membership in the romantic school (as well as the realist one) is frequently examined without a detailed and objective study of the author's worldview. For this reason critics of various persuasions all too easily dismissed the bard's romanticism and saw realism even in his early works, e.g., Velykyi liokh. This tendency began with Khvedir Vovk (T.H. Shevchenko: Ioho dumy pro hromadske zhyttia 1876) and continues through Oleksandr Biletsky (Ideino-khudozhnie znachennia poemy "Velykyi liokh": Tezy 1958). According to Dr. O. Zujewskyj this error makes it impossible to see the interrelation between the poet's worldview and his writing style. A realist can never be a (philosophical) idealist just as positivism precludes only literary romanticism. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Oleh Zujewskyj
Ukrainians in Eastern Europe after World War II
Eastern Europe
Soviet Ukraine
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Ivan Jaworsky, who is currently completing his M.A. in political science at Carleton University, spoke on "Ukrainians in Eastern Europe after World War II'' on February 26. His talk surveyed the situation of Ukrainian minorities in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Although the number of Ukrainians in Eastern Europe has decreased greatly since the war as a result of boundary changes, by which Galicia, Bukovyna and Carpatho-Ukraine were transferred to Soviet Ukraine, small Ukrainian minorities remain in the countries reviewed. In his presentation the speaker gave an overview of the situation of each Ukrainian minority, commenting on their demographic, social, economic, cultural, organizational, and religious life. An emphasis was put on the factors influencing the development and survival of these minorities, such as: increasing assimilation due to out-migration from depressed rural areas where most Ukrainians live; the effect of Soviet foreign policy; attitudes of dominant nationalities toward Ukrainian minorities; state influence in official Ukrainian organizations (i.e., USKT in Poland, KSUT in Czechoslavakia) ; and the poorly developed sense of national identity in some areas where people still identify themselves as "Rusyn" or "Hutsul” Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Ivan Jaworsky
Folklore
Folk
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Dr. B. Medwidsky, assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages, delivered the eighth Institute seminar at the University of Alberta. On February 6, 1979 he spoke on "Fables about Animals." Dr. Medwidsky discussed some texts of Kazky pro tvaryn , a recently published volume of Ukrainian animal tales. After a brief description of the genre and of the function of oral tradition in general, the speaker compared the total number of texts contained in this recent publication with that of a volume published sixty years earlier by V. Hnatiuk. He found the 1916 edition poorer than its 1976 sequel by 106 animal tales and 37 animal voice texts. The major part of Dr. Medwidsky ’s presentation was spent comparing texts (where editorial abbreviations had been performed; in the recent edition with their originals. His presentation stimulated a discussion on the subject of editing, bowdlerization and censorship in Soviet Ukrainian publications. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Bohdan Medwidsky
Interethnic Conflict in the Awakening Village: Ukrainians and Jews in Late Nineteenth Century Galicia
Jews in Ukraine
XIX c.
Galicia
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The tenth Institute seminar of the 1978-79 academic year at the University of Alberta took place on March 6, 1979. Dr. John-Paul Himka, research associate at the Institute and visiting assistant professor in the Department of History, spoke on "Interethnic Conflict in the Awakening Village: Ukrainians and Jews in Late Nineteenth Century Galicia." The speaker examined the ethno-religious and social antagonism between Ukrainian peasants and Jews in late nineteenth century Galicia. Previously, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a very similar antagonism had erupted in violence from time to time, ending in pogroms against local Jews. In the late nineteenth century, as a result of the penetration of the national movement into the villages, the conflict took on a different aspect. Instead of an elemental, violent struggle, the Ukrainian peasants engaged in an institutional one, establishing reading clubs (ehytalni) as rivals to predominantly Jewish taverns, and loan funds as rivals to local Jewish creditors. The seminar first discussed some problems impeding the objective study of Ukrainian- Jewish relations and then provided background on Ukrainian and Jewish society in Galicia. The main part of the seminar examined interethnic conflict in the village described in reports ( kovespondentsti) submitted to the popular Ukrainian press. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
John-Paul Himka
Stalinism
Russification
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On March 7 Dr. Roman Szporluk, professor of history at the University of Michigan, spoke on "The Ukrainian Press in the Shelest Era." The history of the Ukrainian press since 1945 can be divided into four periods: Stalinism (until 1953-54), de-Stalinization (mid-1950s-early 1960s), the Shelest era (1963-72), and the contemporary period (since 1972). Under Stalinism, the circulation of the Ukrainian press was rigidly limited and restricted to periodicals serving the state apparatus, the agricultural sector, and—to a small extent—the intelligentsia. With de-Stalinization came an extraordinary expansion of the Ukrainian press: circulations became unfrozen and sky-rocketed, and periodicals were founded for urban readers, i.e., for workers (Robitnycha hazeta) and the intelligentsia (Vsesvit, Ukvainskyi istovychnyi zhuvnal) . After some setbacks in the early 1960s (during Khrushchev's last years in power), the Ukrainian press again expanded during the Shelest era. More specialized journals and yearbooks in the humanities and social sciences appeared; there was also a corresponding expansion of periodicals in the exact sciences. Kyiv became the second largest center of press and publishing in the USSR, outpacing Leningrad. Circulations rose; Radianska zhinka and Revets achieved readerships of one million. The popular weekly Ukvaina actively fostered a Ukrainian historical, linguistic consciousness. The press in the Shelest era became the material link in a new partnership between the state apparatus and the Ukrainian intelligentsia; it functioned as a vehicle of vappvochement , at once "sovietizing" the Ukrainians and Ukrainianizing the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. After 1972 the regime abandoned this experiment and returned to a "neo-Stalinist" assimilationist policy, which manifests itself by stifling the Ukrainian press. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Roman Szporluk
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
Ukrainian Literature and Art in the 1920s
Art
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 outlined four different conceptions of art in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s: (1) Destructivism (as illustrated by M. Semenko's futurism), (2) Constructivism (V. Polishchuk's "spirit of engineering"), (3) Monumentalism (M. Boichuk's current in ARMU (Asotsiiatsiia revoliutsiinykh mysttsiv Ukrainy), and (4) Pure Art (K. Malevych's ideas on art are the clearest formulation of this tendency) . The seminar was illustrated with appropriate slides. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Myroslav Shkandrij
Psychological Sciences in the Ukrainian SSR
Dmytro Rewilak
Interview with Olenka Bilash About Ukrainian Bilingual Education in Edmonton
Ukrainian Bilingual Education
Alberta
CIUS Seminar Audio. Olenka Bilash is interviewed about Ukrainian Bilingual education in Edmonton.
Olenka Bilash
The National Awakening in Ukraine, 1859–1863: Students in Kharkiv and Kyiv Universities
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
Emma Andijewska's Roman pro dobru liudynu : The Displaced Persons Camp as Purgatory
Displacement
CIUS Seminar Audio. Lisa Efimov-Schneider, currently a Ph.D. candidate in Russian Literature at the University of Toronto, gave a talk entitled, "Emma Andijewska's Roman pro dobru liudynu : The Displaced Persons Camp as Purgatory." In Andijewska's Roman, the Displaced Persons camp is introduced first in its historic sense — a place signifying political and physical-geographic displacement—but then is extended to represent a state of total psychic disturbance. Supported by a complex narrative mode in which semantic and symbolic confusion is deliberately created, Andij ewska suspends all standard literary expectations and judging mechanisms for the characters in the novel as well as for the reader. Social distinctions (intellectualism vs. simplicity); moral values; chronologically linear development; the distinction between dreams, visions, and reality; the efficacy of logical, as opposed to supernatural or irrational, explanations— all of these are eliminated. This allows for an investigation of the quality "goodness" which is entirely uninhibited and unqualified. Suspension of standards of judgment makes each event within the world of the camp equally meaningful in the growth process of its primary heroes; this compels the reader to pay equal attention to the minutae of detail and to the supposed "main events" in recognizing "the good person." The symbol of purgatory is a useful one in characterizing the D.P. camp condition depicted by Andij ewska. Like the camp world, the purgatorial state is one within which rites of passage take place, eventually admitting a person into a better world. These rites, or developmental stages, are alike in both camp and purgatory because they are stripped of any socially defined elements, and have to do only with the inner moral growth of each separate personality. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Lisa Efimov-Schneider
Poetry
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Mr. Yuriy Stefanyk-Klynowy delivered the twelfth Institute seminar of the 1978-79 academic year at the University of Alberta. On March 20, 1979, he spoke on "Olena Teliha's Great World." The speaker reminisced about his personal encounters with the poetess and examined her work in the light of the criticism of V. Derzhavyn, Iu. Sherekh, B. Boichuk and B. Rubchak. By illustrating his points with direct quotations from O. Teliha's works, he showed how these critics were often in error. The seminar consisted of three parts: (1) personal reminiscences, (2) an analysis of the author's work, and finally (3) a discussion of her tragic death. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Yuriy Stefanyk-Klynowy
Ukrainian Revolution
Peasants
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 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
Intelligentsia
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
Music
Drama
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
Ukrainian Canadians, Multiculturalism and the New Government
Multiculturalism
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On 6 November Dr. Lupul, director of the Institute and professor of Canadian educational history, spoke on the subject "Ukrainian Canadians, Multiculturalism and the New Government." Topics examined were "Ukrainian power" in the new Conservative government and in the multicultural area itself. The Ukrainian-Canadian community’s power to influence the new government's multicultural policies and programmes was discussed in the context of possible federal assistance to cultural and organizational activities, similar to that given francophone organizations outside the Province of Quebec. Finally, the new government’s possible orientation toward multiculturalism was presented against the background of the "Progressive Conservative Statement on Multiculturalism," issued by the Progressive Conservative national headquarters on 3 May 1979. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 1 (Winter 1979)
Manoly Lupul
Ukrainians in Australia: An Eyewitness Account
Ukrainians Abroad
Ukrainian Catholic Identity
Diaspora
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The second Institute seminar, “Ukrainians in Australia: An Eyewitness Account," was presented by Dr. Celestin Suchowersky, formerly of the University library, on 2 October. In February 1979 Dr. Suchowersky visited the major Ukrainian centres in Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, the port of Adelaide and Canberra, Australia's capital. He met with representatives of Ukrainian religious, civic, cultural, economic and political organizations. The Ukrainian Catholic church in Australia is well organized and has a number of accomplishments to its credit; the Ukrainian Orthodox church is somewhat weaker, being divided into three jurisdictions and representing a smaller number of faithful. Ukrainian community life is led by the SUOK, which might be compared to the Ukrainian Canadian Committee of Canada, although there are some differences. Every city has its own narodnl domy where all can gather; simultaneously there exist domy for specific church and civic groups such as SUM and Plast. The development of credit unions has been impressive, especially in Sydney and Melbourne. Political parties from "the old country" languish because of internal dissension. The speaker felt that Ukrainian students in Australia, as a whole, participate more actively in Ukrainian community life and speak more and better Ukrainian than do their Canadian counterparts. The speaker was most favourably impressed by the Tovarystvo universytetskykh graduantiv (Association of University Graduates) of Sydney and the surrounding area. The Tovarystvo invited Dr. Suchowersky to address its members on the cultural and academic achievements of Ukrainians in Canada and on the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in particular. The older generation of Ukrainian Australians is troubled by a complex of questions familiar to Canadians concerning assimilation and the retention of a Ukrainian identity among the youth. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 1 (Winter 1979)
Celestin Suchowersky
Dmytro Dontsov and Interwar Ukrainian Nationalism
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
Interwar Years
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On 4 December Nestor Makuch, recent recipient of an honours B.A. in history at the University of Alberta, presented the sixth Institute seminar, "Dmytro Dontsov and Interwar Ukrainian Nationalism." In 1929 several integral nationalist groups in Western Ukraine and adjacent areas of Eastern Europe banded together to form the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (O.U.N.). The groups themselves had arisen during the 1920s in response to internal and external factors that, they felt, were threatening the very survival of the Ukrainian nation. Externally, the postwar settlements had left many European countries with dissatisfied national minorities, such as the Ukrainians in Poland. Polish aggression was a major factor contributing to the Ukrainians' perceived threat of their elimination as a national group. This aggravated the hostility Ukrainians felt toward the Western democracies for allowing Ukrainian territory to be incorporated into Poland. Coupled with a decline of parliamentarianism in the West and Poland and the rise of authoritarian regimes, this resentment aided in the development of the methods by which Ukrainians would attempt to redress their grievances. Internally, the failure of the Ukrainian revolution convinced nationalists that the existing strategy and programmes of the Ukrainian leadership were ineffectual. Therefore, they looked for a "new way" to achieve national self-determination. The "new way" was supplied by Dontsov who fanned the discontent the younger generation through his voluminous publicistic work and, though never formally a member of the party, created the psychological milieu that facilitated O.U.N. recruitment. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 1 (Winter 1979)
Nestor Makuch
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
F. Duchinski: His Impact on Ukrainian Political Thought
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Dr. Ivan L. Rudnytsky, professor of history, presented the fifth Institute seminar on 20 November. His talk was entitled "F. Duchinski: His Impact on Ukrainian Political Thought." Franciszek Duchiffeki (1817-93) was a native of the province of Kyiv. A patriotic Pole, he also possessed a strong sense of allegiance to his Ukrainian homeland. As an expatriate since 1846, he settled in Paris and became a prolific writer in Polish and French. Duchifiski advocated the idea of a perennial racial conflict between the Aryans or Indo-Europeans and the "Turanians" J he classified the Poles and the Ukrainians with the former, and Russians (whose Slavic character he denied) with the latter. Duchinski cannot be considered a sound scholar, although at times he displayed flashes of historical intuition. In the 1860s he had followers among French publicists, but this influence waned with the fall of the Second Empire and the rise of critical Slavic studies. In the early 1870s Duchinski contributed to the Galician Ukrainian press. Duchifiski 's ideas were opposed by Mykola Kostomarov and Mykhailo Drahomanov on scholarly as well as political grounds. In spite of this, the concept of a fundamental ethnic incompatibility of the Ukrainian and the Russian peoples, first formulated by Duchinski, was accepted by the Galician narodovtsi and became a permanent feature of the ideology of modern Ukrainian nationalism. A forgotten figure today, Duchinski may serve as an example of the impact which Ukrainophile Poles had in directing the Ukrainian national movement into militantly anti-Russian channels. This impact has not been sufficiently appreciated by historians. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 1 (Winter 1979)
Ivan Rudnytsky
Bohdan Rubchak
Multiculturalism and the Future of Ukrainian Culture and Society in Ukraine and Canada: A Comparative Approach
Identity
Modern Ukraine
Ukrainian Language
Modernity
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On 3 December the final Institute seminar of the autumn semester in Toronto was given by Dr. Wsevolod Isajiw, professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Isajiw spoke on "Multiculturalism and the Future of Ukrainian Culture and Society in Ukraine and Canada: A Comparative Approach." The factors conditioning the future development of the Ukrainian community are: (1) cultural institutions, (2) those sectors of the community providing a social base for the development of institutions and (3) ideologies articulating and justifying organized activity and collective action. In Ukraine, since the end of World War II, there has been intensive urbanization involving a large proportion of migrants from the Russian republic and a process of social mobility resulting in competition between Ukrainians and immigrating Russians. In this competition Ukrainians have been at a disadvantage, as witnessed by the numerical decline of Ukrainian together with a strengthening of Russian cultural institutions. The current dissent in Ukraine has to be understood against this background: the dissidents are an active social base defending Ukrainian institutions in the face of threat and are spokesmen who are articulating a new, human rights ideology. Their success will depend upon possible support from other important social sectors in Ukraine and on the successes of other human rights movements in the Soviet Union, especially in the Russian republic. In Canada, migration to cities has meant a loss of Ukrainian language, but not necessarily a complete loss of identity. Different sectors in the Ukrainian community have different orientations toward retention of Ukrainian cultural institutions. Six definitions of multiculturalism as an ideology can be distinguished; different sectors of the community provide the social base for each definition. Two such definitions reflect those who stress retention of Ukrainian institutions as they have been and those who emphasize development. Unlike in Ukraine, retention of Ukrainian identity in Canada will depend on creative development of Ukrainian culture in the context of general Canadian institutions and on further development of Ukrainian "elites" in the context of society as a whole rather than in the ethnic group alone. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 1 (Winter 1979)
Wsevolod Isajiw
Poland
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The seventh Institute seminar at the University of Alberta was presented on 15 January 1980 by Karol Adamowicz, a graduate student in the Department of Educational Foundations. He spoke on "Ukrainian Education in Interwar Poland," focusing on the elementary level. The so-called utraquization of Ukrainian schools, their conversion from a single language of instruction (Ukrainian) to two (Ukrainian and Polish) , tended to poison Polish-Ukrainian relations in the interwar era. The originator of the programme, the National Democrat Stanislaw Grabski, claimed that utraquization would improve these relations. In reality utraquist schools were instruments of Polonization. Ukrainian-language schools were systematically phased out at a rate very nearly proportional to the rate of increase in utraquist schools. As a result, by 1939 very little remained of the Ukrainian educational system that had been established in Galicia under Austrian rule. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 2 (Winter 1980)
Karol Adamowicz
Consequences of the Movement of Non-Voluntary Migrants in a Nation State
Nation
Liubomyr Luciuk
Part 1: Introduction by Manoly Lupul and opening address by Camille Laurin
Quebec
Separatism
The conference on "Ukrainian Canadians , Multiculturalism, and Separatism: An Assessment" was held at the University of Alberta on September 9-11. Organized and sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, it featured papers by the Minister of State for Cultural Development from the Parti Quebecois government, a former commissioner of the federal government, and prominent Ukrainian-Canadian academics. Dr. M. R. Lupul, director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, opened the conference on Friday ’evening, September 9, with remarks on the purpose and objectives of the conference. The Institute, he declared, "only provides the forum for discussion; it itself is no oracle. If the topic under discussion has profound political implications that does not render the Institute itself political; all it shows is that the Institute can be relevant to the issues of our time." The Honorable Camille Laurin, Minister of State for Cultural Development, Province of Quebec, who delivered the opening address to approximately 250 people, explained the objectives of the Parti Quebecois in the struggle for self-determination for the French in Quebec and termed the federal government's bilingual policy a failure. Dr. Laurin was questioned by Professor Walter S. Tarnopolsky, Osgoode Hall, York University, and Professor Bohdan Bociurkiw, Department of Political Science, Carleton University. Concern about the status of ethnocultural groups in Quebec was prominent in the questions and in the discussion from the floor which followed. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Manoly Lupul, Camille Laurin
Part 2: Separatism and Ethnic Groups in Quebec
Professor Ivan Myhul, Department of Political Science, Bishop's University, speaks on the topic: "Separatism and Ethnic Groups in Quebec," criticizing the absence of a clear government policy towards the non-Anglo-Celtic minorities in Quebec and outlining their unique and unfortunate predicament. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Ivan Myhul
Part 3: Separatism and Ethnic Groups in Quebec
Roman Serbyn follows Ivan Myhul presenting on the same topic of: "Separatism and Ethnic Groups in Quebec," criticizing the absence of a clear government policy towards the non-Anglo-Celtic minorities in Quebec and outlining their unique and unfortunate predicament. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Part 4: Questions for Ivan Myhul and Roman Serbyn
Questions for Roman Serbyn and Ivan Myhul following their presentations on the topic: "Separatism and Ethnic Groups in Quebec," criticizing the absence of a clear government policy towards the non-Anglo-Celtic minorities in Quebec and outlining their unique and unfortunate predicament. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Bohdan Bociurkiw, Camille Laurin, Ivan Myhul, Keith Spicer,Manoly Lupul, Roman Petryshyn, Roman Serbyn, Walter Tarnopolsky
Part 5: The Ukrainian Canadians in Transition
CIUS conference audio recording of Mr. Roman Petryshyn, research associate of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, presenting a paper entitled "The Ukrainian Canadians in Transition," in which he compared the social structure and mobility patterns of Ukrainians in Canada to those of other ethnic groups on a national scale, and showed how Ukrainians, like the French, were still very much part of a vertical mosaic. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Part 6: Multiculturalism and the Response of the Ukrainian-Canadian Community
CIUS conference audio of Bohdan Bociurkiw presenting his paper "Multiculturalism and the Response of the Ukrainian-Canadian Community," in which he praised the roles played by Senator Yuzyk and several members of the Ukrainian Canadian University Students' Union and stated that the Ukrainian Canadian Committee left much to be desired as a pressure group. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Bohdan Bociurkiw
Part 7: A Multicultural Canada: The Basic Issues
CIUS conference audio of Professor Walter S. Tarnopolsky's presentation "A Multicultural Canada: The Basic Issues." In his wide-ranging remarks, he stressed that a multicultural Canada must provide greater access to the most rewarding jobs for all Canadians. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Walter Tarnopolsky
Part 8: Questions for Walter Tarnopolsky
CIUS conference audio from the question period following Professor Walter S. Tarnopolsky's presentation on "A Multicultural Canada: The Basic Issues." In his wide-ranging remarks, he stressed that a multicultural Canada must provide greater access to the most rewarding jobs for all Canadians. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Part 9: Canada's Options in a Time of Political Crisis and Their Implications for Multiculturalism
CIUS conference audio from Professor Manoly R. Lupul's presentation "Canada's Options in a Time of Political Crisis and Their Implications for Multiculturalism," rejecting both separatism and "Trudeau federalism" as options and putting forth a new concept, regional federalism, using the Ukrainian bilingual school program to illustrate how it could work in the area of language and culture. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Part 10: Multiculturalism and Separatism: The Search for a Ukrainian Consensus
CIUS conference audio from the final panel of the conference on the topic "Multiculturalism and Separatism: The Search for a Ukrainian Consensus." The panelists included Professors Bociurkiw, Myhul, Serbyn, Tarnopolsky and Mr. Petryshyn. A consensus was reached on three points: that Ukrainians in Canada should support the right of the French in Quebec to self-determination within a federal framework; that further dialogue on the topic of separatism vis a vis multiculturalism was necessary; and that the involvement and support of Ukrainian Canadians from all walks of life was necessary for multiculturalism to survive. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Ivan Myhul, Roman Serbyn, Walter Tarnopolsky, Roman Petryshyn
At the banquet on Saturday evening, Dr. Keith Spicer, journalist, broadcaster, and former Commissioner of Official Languages, was guest speaker. He examined the federal policy of bilingualism, defined its shortcomings, and predicted difficult relations between the federal and Quebec governments, at least for the next three years. He also thought groups like the Ukrainians should work closely with French Canadians, especially in western Canada. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Keith Spicer
1979: Ukraine since 1945: A Study in Modern History
Lecture Audio Part 1 and 2 The 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 Modem History ." The end of World War II was a watershed in Ukrainian history: after long periods of separation almost all Ukrainian lands found themselves under one regime, whose central authorities in Moscow persecuted the Ukrainian intelligentsia. Even the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), which was also distrusted by the population, was also repressed. Due to internal migration there began a process of national integration as some regional differences diminished. The period of destalinization in the 1950s saw the rehabilitation of both the CPU and the Ukrainian intelligentsia. A very important function was served by the Writers' Union of Ukraine which was used to legitimize the Soviet regime, but which also became a kind of alternate political centre. In contrast to the distrust of the previous period a rapprochement was attempted with western Ukraine. Although no less distrustful of Ukrainians the government realized that certain concessions had to be made. These took the form of an expansion in the number of Ukrainian publications made available and a diversification of Ukrainian audiences to whom publications were addressed. Increasingly, the intelligentsia acted as a link between the Soviet regime and the masses. The early 1960s were a retreat from destalinization and brought with them a return of russification. However, this was resisted by a new alliance between the pro-Soviet element on the one hand, and the new generation of the intelligentsia on the other. The latter group found a forum in the press for their campaign in defence of the Ukrainian language. The government under P. Shelest, while mildly repressing dissidents (by Soviet standards), tried to implement some of their proposals. Shelest's fall from power in 1972 ushered in an era of renewed and reinforced russification. Attempts at rapprochement between the regime and the Ukrainian nation, and implementation of a new Ukrainian-Russian relationship , were abandoned Instead of dealing with very real economic and social problems, the government continues to concern itself with nationality problems. In spite of L. Brezhnev's wishes the Ukrainian problem will not go away. The government is faced with a new nation which, though possibly slightly diminished in numbers, has more energy and a greater potential. / A lively discussion period followed Dr. Szporluk' s presentation. The Shevchenko lecture is sponsored by the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club of Edmonton and organized by the Institute. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
Part 1: Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox churches
Ukrainian Churches in Alberta
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Three speakers—Alexander Baran and Oleh Gerus, of the Department of History at the University of Manitoba, and Russel Moroziuk of Concordia University—addressed questions relating to the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox churches, including the role of Catholic Action in the former and Father Semen Sawchuk in the latter. Russel Moroziuk is the first speaker who describes institutional restructuring that divided Ukrainian Canadian society along Catholic and Orthodox lines during the interwar period. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Russel Moroziuk
Part 3: Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox churches (cont.)
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Three speakers—Alexander Baran and Oleh Gerus, of the Department of History at the University of Manitoba, and Russel Moroziuk of Concordia University —addressed questions relating to the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox churches, including the role of Catholic Action in the former and Father Semen Sawchuk in the latter. In this recording Alexander Baran discusses the Ukrainian Catholic church.
Alexander Baran
Part 4: Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox churches (cont.)
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Three speakers—Alexander Baran and Oleh Gerus, of the Department of History at the University of Manitoba, and Russel Moroziuk of Concordia University —addressed questions relating to the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox churches, including the role of Catholic Action in the former and Father Semen Sawchuk in the latter. In this recording Oleh Gerus talks about Father Semen Sawchuk and the formative years of the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Canada.
Oleh Gerus
Part 5: The Ukrainian Canadian experience as a "Canadian” phenomenon
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Four papers dealt with the Ukrainian Canadian experience as a "Canadian” phenomenon. In this recording Frances Swyripa of the Department of History at the University of Alberta, suggests several ways in which criminal case files for the Vegreville bloc east of Edmonton could be used as sources for researching Ukrainian Canadian women.
Part 6: The Ukrainian Canadian experience as a "Canadian” phenomenon (cont.)
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Four papers dealt with the Ukrainian Canadian experience as a "Canadian” phenomenon. In this recording, Myron Momryk of the National Archives of Canada presents a detailed Linocut made in commemoration of the Ukrainian centenary in Canada.
Myron Momryk
Part 7: The Ukrainian Canadian experience as a "Canadian” phenomenon (cont.)
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Four papers dealt with the Ukrainian Canadian experience as a "Canadian” phenomenon. In this recording William Darcovich speaks on the Ukrainian contribution to the economy of the Canadian West and to multiculturalism in Canada, drawing on research conducted for CIUS. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
William Darcovich
Part 8: Question Period for Frances Swyripa, Myron Momryk, and William Darcovich
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Four papers dealt with the Ukrainian Canadian experience as a "Canadian” phenomenon. In this recording, the panel is opened for questions from the audience. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Frances Swyripa, Myron Momryk, and William Darcovich
Part 9: The Pro-Communist Faction of Ukrainian Canadian Community
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Of six papers devoted to the secular organized community, three dealt with the pro-Soviet, pro-communist faction. In this recording Andrij Makuch (Senior Researcher, Encyclopedia of Ukraine Project) examines the culture of the Ukrainian Canadian Left between 1924 and 1951. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Part 10: The Pro-Communist Faction of Ukrainian Canadian Community
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Of six papers devoted to the secular organized community, three dealt with the pro-Soviet, pro-communist faction. In this recording William Harasym provides a participant’s perspective on the interwar "anti-fascist movement” as national secretary of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians.
William Harasym
Part 11: The Pro-Communist Faction of Ukrainian Canadian Community
Famine in Ukraine
Holodomor (Famine in Ukraine)
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Of six papers devoted to the secular organized community, three dealt with the pro-Soviet, pro-communist faction. In this recording Marco Carynnyk (Research Associate, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto) focused on the Left's treatment of the 1932-33 famine in Soviet Ukraine. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Marco Carynnyk
Part 12: The ‘'Ukrainian problem” in the Opinion of Poles in Canada
Polish-Ukrainian Relations
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Rather than take the Ukrainian community itself as the starting point, Anna Reczvriska of the Polonia Research Institute at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, used interwar Polish consular and other records to examine the ‘'Ukrainian problem” in the opinion of Poles in Canada. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Anna Reczvriska
Part 13: Question period for Andrij Makuch, William Harasym, Marco Carynnyk, and Anna Reczvriska
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. In this recording, the panel is opened for questions from the audience. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Andrij Makuch, William Harasym, Marco Carynnyk, Anna Reczvriska
Part 14: Ukraine's archival sources for studying Ukrainians in Canada, 1920–1939
Archive
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891–1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. Leonid Leshchenko of the Institute for the Study of Social and Economic Problems of Foreign Countries at the Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, discussed Ukraine's archival sources for studying Ukrainians in Canada, 1920–1939. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Leonid Leshchenko
Part 15: Occupations Held by Ukrainian Immigrants in Canada Between the Wars
Economy
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. In this recording Oleksandr Sych of the Faculty of History at University of Chernivtsi outlines the occupations held by Ukrainian immigrants in Canada between the wars. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Oleksandr Sych
Part 16: The Role of Folklore and Popular Etymology: Ukrainian Toponymies in Canada
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. In this recording Yurii Zavhorodniev of the Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Lviv, spoke on “The Role of Folklore and Popular Etymology: Ukrainian Toponymies in Canada.”
Yurii Zavhorodniev
Part 17: Constantine Andrushyshen: the “first Canadian-born Slavist”
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. In this recording Victor Buyniak (Department of Slavic Studies, University of Saskatchewan) profiles Constantine Andrushyshen: the “first Canadian-born Slavist.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Victor Buyniak
Part 18: Vera Lysenko: Growing up in North Winnipeg.
Manitoba
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. In this recording Ph.D. student Alexandra Kruchka Glynn (University of Alberta) talks about the life of the writer and feminist, Vera Lysenko, growing up in North Winnipeg. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Alexandra Kruchka Glynn
Part 19: Emminent Outsiders: the Aesthetics of Assimilation and the Ukrainian Experience in Canada
Assimilation
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. In this recording Robert Klymasz of the East European Programme, Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies - Canadian Museum of Civilization, looked at the aesthetics of assimilation and the Ukrainian experience in Canada. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Robert Klymasz
Part 20: Reported Ethnicities and Languages in Canada: A Comparative Analysis of the Ukrainian Experience
Canada Census
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. In this recording Karol Krotki and David Odynak of the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta utilized census data for a paper on “Reported Ethnicities and Languages in Canada: A Comparative Analysis of the Ukrainian Experience.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Karol Krotki, David Odynak
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.
Leonid Leshchenko, Oleksandr Sych, Yurii Zavhorodniev, Victor Buyniak, Alexandra Kruchka Glynn, Robert Klymasz, Karol Krotki, David Odynak
Part 22: The First Ukrainian-Language Feature Film in Canada: Zaporozhets za Dunaiem
Cinematography
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. In this recording Bohdan Nebesio, a Ph.D. student at the Department of Slavic and East European Studies at the University of Alberta, analyzes the 1938 production of Zaporozhets za Dunaiem, the “first Ukrainian-language feature film in Canada.”
Bohdan Nebesio
Part 23: The Ukrainian Nationalist Writer and his Place in Canadian Letters
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. In this recording Mary Shcherba a private scholar from Pointe Claire Quebec, speaks on the Ukrainian nationalist writer and his place in Canadian letters. A question period for Mary Shcherba and for the previous speaker, Bohdan Nebesio, follow the presentation at 15:25 in the audio. Found in CIUS Newsletter 1991
Mary Shcherba
Part 24: Ecomuseum Proposal and Concluding Remarks
Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest Martynowych's landmark monograph, Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924, the conference was designed as a first step toward creating a research base for writing the interwar history of Ukrainians in Canada. This period, in contrast to the well-studied pioneer immigration and prairie settlement experience, has received relatively little scholarly attention, despite it being so critical to both the crystallizing Ukrainian Canadian community and ongoing integration into Canadian life. Accordingly, it was CIUS’s plan to attract papers on as wide an array of topics as possible, avoiding broad generalities in favour of more limited but illuminating profiles and case studies. In this recording Jars Balan proposes a project for an ecomuseum. Concluding remarks for the conference follow at 13:10.
Jars Balan
Interview with Peter Savaryn about Ukrainian Politicians in Alberta
Andrij Makuch interviews Peter Savaryn about Ukrainian Politicians in Alberta
Andrij Makuch, Peter Savaryn
The Issue That Keeps Coming Back: Language Politics in Post-Orange Ukraine
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
Canada-Ukraine Relations and Developing Co-operation in Education and Scholarship
CIUS Seminar audio. His Excellency Ihor Ostash (Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada) spoke on Canada-Ukraine relations and developing co-operation in education and scholarship. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2007
Ihor Ostash
The Ostroh Academy as a Factor in the Education of Ukraine’s Elites Today
Contemporary Ukraine
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
2007: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA): What Have We Learned 65 Years after Its Founding?
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)
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 Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA): What Have We Learned 65 Years after Its Founding?” In his lecture Dr. Potichnyj addressed some of the key controversies surrounding the UPA. The first concerns the common practice of conflating the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), especially the faction led by Stepan Bandera (OUN-B), with the UPA, giving rise to the joint acronym OUN-UPA. Professor Potichnyj pointed out that this hyphenated designation was first used by Soviet security organs to discredit the UPA by linking it with the OUNs integral-nationalist ideology of the 1930s. While acknowledging the important role played by OUN members in the UPA, Dr. Potichnyj stressed that the latter was subordinate to the Supreme Ukrainian Liberation Council (Ukrains'ka Holovna Vyzvol'na Rada), an underground governing body more broadly based than the OUN-B. The second controversy concerns estimates of the number of people involved in the UPA and underground activities generally. The Soviet-sponsored image of the UPA as a collection of undisciplined bands of gangsters has fuelled the third controversy. Here, Professor Potichnyj stressed the UPAs resemblance to a regular army, noting Soviet efforts to create armed groups that looked like UPA units and imitated them. Professor Potichnyj also discussed controversies related to ideology, concluding that the ideology of the UPA was based largely on the democratic wartime writings of Osyp Diakiv (Hornovy), P. Poltava (Fedun), and others, not on the integral nationalist ideas of Dmytro Dontsov, who came to prominence between the wars. Professor Potichnyj also discussed the Polish-Ukrainian conflict, stressing its long history and suggesting that land hunger was partly to blame for the ferocity of the struggle and the involvement of peasants in the Volhynian tragedy of 1943, when many Polish civilians were slaughtered. Other factors included plans to incorporate Volhynia into Poland, German and Soviet meddling, and the inability of Polish and Ukrainian underground leaders to reach an understanding. With regard to the Holocaust, Dr. Potichnyj noted that although the Ukrainian populace was aware of the mass murder of Jews in Ukraine, there is no documentary evidence to support the assumption that the UPA welcomed or supported it. The greatest failure of the Ukrainian underground leadership, however, was that it did not issue condemnations or proclamations of concern. Dr. Potichnyj also pointed out that he knew of no instance of Jewish leaders attempting to contact the Ukrainian underground leadership. During the lecture and in the question period, the guest speaker drew on his own wartime experiences. Dr. Potichnyj, who comes from the village of Pawlokoma (Pavlokoma) near Przemysl (Peremyshl), now in Poland, became a guerrilla soldier at the age of fourteen after the mass killing of his fellow villagers by Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) soldiers in March 1945. Dr. Potichnyj served in the UPA until 10 September 1947, when the remnant of his company (36 soldiers), led by Mykhailo Duda (Hromenko), crossed from Soviet-occupied Austria to the US-controlled zone of Germany. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1966 and began his academic career that year as professor of political science at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He retired in 1995. Throughout his career, Dr. Potichnyj has had a particular interest in relations between Ukrainians and their neighbours. He organized scholarly conferences on this subject that resulted in the publication of the following books by CIUS Press, which he edited or co-edited: Poland and Ukraine: Past and Present (1980); Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective (1988); and Ukraine and Russia in Their Historical Encounter (1992). Since 1975 Dr. Potichnyj has served as editor-in-chief of the documentary series Litopys UPA, of which 61 volumes have been published to date. He is co-editor of Political Thought of the Ukrainian Underground: 1943-1951 (Edmonton, 1986), published by CIUS Press. He is also the author of a documentary history of his native village, Pavlokoma, 1441-1945: istoriiasela (Lviv and Toronto, 2001. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2007
Peter Potichnyj
The Leopolis Project: An Electronic Archive of the Art of Ukraine
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
Interview with Mykola Sukhaversky about the OUN
Interview
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
Ukrainian Sources in Russian Archives on Ivan Mazepa
CIUS seminar audio. Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva from the Department of History and Ukrainian Studies Centre at St. Petersburg University, Russian Federation speaks on “Ukrainian Sources in Russian Archives on Ivan Mazepa.” Dr. Tairova-Yakovleva also discussed her recent publications, Getman Ivan Mazepa: Dokumenty iz arkhivnykh sobranii Sankt-Peterburga, vyp.l (St. Petersburg, 2007), and Mazepa (Moscow, 2007). Found in CIUS Newsletter 2007
Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva
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
Fifteen Years with CIUS: A Conversation with Serhii Plokhii
CIUS audio interview. As Professor Serhii Plokhii was preparing to leave to leave CIUS in order to take up his new position as Mykhailo S. Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, he recorded the following conversation with the director of the CIUS Toronto Office, Dr. Frank E. Sysyn. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2007
Serhii Plokhii, Frank Sysyn
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
Katherine Howell, Christina Palamarchuk, Bohdan Klid
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
Ukrainian Archival Studies Since Independence: Gains and Losses
CIUS seminar audio. In this recording Iryna Matiash from the Ukrainian Archives and Documentation Research Institute in Kyiv speaks on the topic: “Ukrainian Archival Studies since Independence: Gains and Losses” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2007
Iryna Matiash
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 Mechanics of Building the First Catholic University on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
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
CIUS seminar audio. On January 31, 2008, his Excellency Ihor Ostash (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Canada), presented on “Ukraine’s Current Foreign Policy." Introductions begin at 3:25. Speech begins at 5:05. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2008
2008: Representations of the Jew in Ukrainian Literature
Audio recording of 42nd Annual Shevchenko Lecture. On March 7, 2007, Myroslav Shkandrij of the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba speaks on: “Representations of the Jew in Ukrainian Literature.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2008
Fellows and Travelers: Thinking about Ukrainian History in the Early Nineteenth Century
CIUS seminar audio. On March 27, 2008, Oleksiy Tolochko of Kyiv Mohyla Academy National University and Institute of Ukrainian History at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, spoke on the topic: “Fellows and Travelers: Thinking about Ukrainian History in the Early Nineteenth Century.” Introductions begin at 0:35. Speech begins at 5:35. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2008
Oleksiy Tolochko
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.
CIUS seminar audio. On September 25, 2008, Yaroslav Hrytsak (Institute for Historical Research, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and Chair of Modern World History, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv), presented on the topic: “Rethinking Modern Ukrainian History” at the Inaugural lecture of the Petro Jacyk Program in Modern Ukrainian History and Society. Dr. Hrytsak begins speaking at 16:05 Found in CIUS Newsletter 2009
Yaroslav Hrytsak
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 Ukraine Today.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2009
Vladyslav Hrynevych
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 Hypothesis on a Motive for Genocide” (in Ukrainian). Co-sponsored by the Shevchenko Scientific Society, Branch. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2009
Liudmyla Hrynevych
The Fourth Wave of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada as Depicted in the Literature of Ukrainian Canadianists
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
Taras Lupul
Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe
Russia
Europe
Geopolitics
CIUS seminar audio. On April 22, 2009, Mykola Riabchuk (journalist and independent scholar, Kyiv), presented on the topic: “Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2009
Mykola Riabchuk
Interview with Jordan Vincent: University of Alberta student on exchange at Lviv University
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
Teaching Ukrainian for Professional Purposes
Ukrainian Studies
CIUS seminar audio. Oksana Tyshchenko presents on the topic of teaching ukrainian for professional purposes, such as for students whose specialty is not language. The speaker discusses the language policy in Ukraine, focusing on the legislative basis of funding for linguistic resources. She also discusses Ukrainian as a subject of study in post-secondary education institutions, focusing on purposes, programs, and maintenance.
Oksana Tyshchenko
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.