Dr. Frank Sysyn; Dr. Serhii Plokhy, and Dr. Zenon Kohut at the CIUS Press book launch held in Toronto in 2014.
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
CIUS History
G.H.S. Locke, M. Hrubizna, Roman Petryshyn, Bohdan Krawchenko, Ivan Rudnytsky
CIUS
Class and Ethnicity in the Ukrainian Group in Canada
Ethnicity
Economics
History
Education
Ukrainian Canadians
Immigration and Settlement
Ukrainian Language
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Professor Isajiw, of the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, presented a seminar on February 9 entitled "Class and Ethnicity in the Ukrainian Group in Canada." It elaborated on a theme discussed earlier at a seminar in Edmonton. Professor Isajiw' s presentation centered on the question of whether class or ethnicity is more important in explaining the behaviour of an ethnic group. Professor Isajiw outlined the economic-occupational history of Ukrainians in Canada, based on official censuses. Although there has been a large and rapid decrease in the number of Ukrainians occupied in farming, Ukrainians still remain comparatively underrepresented in white collar occupations and trail behind the general labor force and most other ethnic groups, including other Slavs, in level of education and average income. The social standing of Ukrainians, as viewed subjectively by others, is quite low—in the same category as Mediterranean, Central European, and other East European immigrants. This could be attributed to the class background and occupations of the first Ukrainian immigrants. Before World War II, the peasants from western Ukraine were funnelled into farming and unskilled jobs. Their maintenance of traditional values delayed social mobility. Not until after World War II, when Ukrainians with a higher level of education arrived, did the social composition of Ukrainians become differentiated. However due to their lack of knowledge of English, the absence of an employment placement network, and because the pre-war Ukrainian immigrants were still low on the occupational scale, the latest immigrants suffered a process of declassing; their jobs rarely reflected their educational backgrounds. The government lacked institutions which could absorb immigrant talents. Hence, the declassed immigrants entered existing ethnic organizations, imposing new cultural values on them. A class phenomenon, it was an attempt to maintain the status and prestige they had possessed in Ukraine. The emigre organizations acted as vehicles for social mobility, especially for those former peasants whose status had risen as a result of political participation. These organizations, aimed at cultural ethnic preservation and not entrance into Canadian society, articulated group rather than individual values. A result of the ethnic structure in Ukraine, where Ukrainian ethnicity has always been "under seige," they overemphasized ethnicity as a means of cultural perpetuation among Ukrainians more so than other ethnic groups. Language was crucial in distinguishing the Ukrainians from Poles or Russians. The speaker concluded that to explain the socio-economic situation of Ukrainians in Canada one must use both the concepts of class (power, prestige, wealth) and ethnicity (ancestry, culture, value, customs, socialization). Found in CIUS Newsletters Vol 2 Issue 3 (Winter 1978)
Wsevolod Isajiw
Claus Remer, Die Ukraine im Blickfeld Deutscher Interessen: Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis 1917/18
Guido Hausmann
Clerics and Laymen in the History of the Modern Standard Ukrainian Language
Michael Moser
Collectivization in Ukraine in Light of Soviet Historiography
Janusz Radziejowski
Collectivization of Agriculture in West Ukraine and OUN-UPA Resistance, 1944-1950
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
Collectivization
World War II
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The first Institute seminar of the 1978-79 academic year at the University of Alberta was held on October 17. David R. Marples, doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Alberta, spoke on "Collectivization of Agriculture in West Ukraine and OUN-UPA Resistance, 1944-1950." Having outlined the Soviet achievements in collectivization in 1939-1941, the speaker examined the effects of World War II on West Ukrainian agriculture. The land was redistributed and zemelni hromady were formed. As a result of the OUN-UPA resistance, Soviet military forces and cadres were brought in from the east. The speaker discussed UPA attacks in detail and the concomitant political changes in each oblast. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
David Marples, David R. Marples
Commemorating the Christianization of Kyivan Rus', 1888-2013
Kyievan Rus'
Christianity
This was an active year for public lectures organized by the Program on Religion and Culture. The annual Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture was held on 19 September 2013 as a small symposium on the topic, “Commemorating the Christianization of Kyivan Rus', 1888-2013.” Professor Viktor Yelensky, a leading Ukrainian sociologist of religion from the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and the Drahomanov National Pedagogical University (Kyiv), spoke on “Religion and Politics: The Significance of the Ukrainian Commemoration of the 1025th Anniversary of the Christianization of Rus'.” The director of the program, Heather Coleman, spoke on the subject “Making a National Saint in the Southwest Borderland: St. Volodymyr, Local History, and the First Celebration of the Christianization of Rus' in Kyiv in 1888.” Professor Yelensky's visit was part of a larger speaking tour of Edmonton, Calgary, and Toronto, sponsored by CIUS, together with the Calgary Friends of the Ukrainian Catholic University, the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association of Calgary, the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, and the St. Volodymyr Brotherhood in Toronto. Heather Coleman speaks at 6:45. Viktor Yelensky speaks at 48:35.
Heather Coleman, Viktor Yelensky
Commission on the Ukraine Famine. Report to Congress: Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine 1932-1933
David R. Marples
Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: The CP(b)U, 1919–33
Communism
Ukrainian National Liberation Movement
Communist Party of Ukraine
Bolshevik Revolution
Socialism
Russification
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. In his seminar, "Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: The CP(b)U, 1919–33," James Mace, doctoral candidate in history. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, took the position that events in Ukraine after the Soviet revolution were and still are relevant to international developments. The first attempt in the world to reconcile socialism and nationalism failed in Ukraine because of the continuing dilemma between identity and purpose, and the inherent contradictions between the goals of socialism and nationalism. The speaker provided an overview of Bolshevik theories and practices before, during, and after the revolution by focusing on Lenin's writings and on the Bolsheviks' attitude towards Ukraine. The 1915 debate between Lev Iurkevych and Lenin foreshadowed the future conflicts which would arise between Ukrainian and Russian communists. / The Bolsheviks viewed Ukraine primarily as a source of food and acted accordingly—pillaging and expropriating grain during the civil war. Bolshevik policy then changed to "socialism with a Ukrainian face" to win popular support from the peasantry. The speaker focussed on the struggles between: the Bolsheviks and the Ukrainian "kulak" peasantry; voices for change from within the RCP (b) (i.e., Mazlakh, Shakhrai, and Lapchinsky); the merger of the "Ukapisty" and "Borotbisty" with the Bolsheviks; and debates about Ukrainization reflected in the writings of Ravich-Cherkassky, Iavorsky, Popov, Khvylovy, Shumsky, Volobuiev, and Skrypnyk. / The speaker concluded that attempts at Ukrainization ended after Stalin defeated his opposition and no longer needed the support of the non-Russian Bolsheviks. After collectivization and the famine, it was no longer necessary to placate the Ukrainian countryside; full-scale Russification could begin. The attempt to guarantee Ukrainian national aspirations through communism was only a surrogate for independence; it was a relative degree of political and economic autonomy dependent on the centralist powers in Moscow. The only major Ukrainian achievement of this period was in the cultural field, but this was thwarted by the wholesale destruction of the Ukrainian intelligentsia in the 1930s. Thus the dilemma of identity and purpose was never solved. Russian communism triumphed by repudiating the promises it had made to the non-Russian nationalities. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
James E. Mace, James Mace
Conceptual Issues in Studying the History of the Ukrainian Revolution
Vladyslav Verstiuk
Consequences of the Movement of Non-Voluntary Migrants in a Nation State
Nation
Liubomyr Luciuk
Constantine Henry Andrusyshen: The First Canadian-Born Slavist
Victor O. Buyniak
Continuity and Change: The Cultural Life of Alberta's First Ukrainians
Alberta
Canadian Ukrainians
Diaspora
Culture
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the life of the first Ukrainian immigrants. The volume consists of eight parts. It begins with a prologue by Roman Onufrijchuk that sets the stage for understanding the difficult process of cultural transmission and accomodation, made even more difficult for the first Ukrainian settlers, who were from the peasant stratum as well as pioneers. It ends with a more theoretical epilogue by Ian H. Angus that points up the unique significance of ethnocultural communities in rescuing Canadian identity from the universalizing grip of homogenizing cultures like that of the United States. In between, the volume explores (in the second part) the historical conditions in western Ukraine and western Canada at the turn of the century, the overall nature of the rural Ukrainian bloc settlement in east central Alberta (the largest in Canada), and the contrast between the cluster village in Ukraine and the railroad village in the West. In this part, John-Paul Himka presents the hypothesis tested indirectly by subsequent presentations: "Ukrainian immigrants in Canada were at first not only culturally more traditional/backward than most Canadians but also more traditional/backward than their contemporaries in western Ukraine." The next four parts on material culture, the life of women, customs and beliefs, and cultural institutions and organizations in the new world could be said to constitute the heart of the volume. The life of the first immigrants is analyzed in detail in terms of the problems of shelter, agricultural technology, the status and responsibilities of women, the endurance of customs and beliefs, and the evolution of institutions and organizations that were similar to, yet distinct from, those in the Old Country. The analysis is as strong as the field work on which it depends, and there is no doubt a lesson here for all ethnocultural groups: research in the field should begin early, while most of the immigrant generation is still alive. The seventh part on the "open-air" museum may be seen as the applied part of the conference and is, of course, most directly relevant to the needs and concerns of the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village. As a type, the village has numerous models in other countries, and its problems, like its accomplishments, are in some respects unique. Contributors include Orest T. Martynowych, Frances Swyripa, Peter Melnycky, Marie Lesoway, Andrij Makuch, Kathleen Conzen, James Fitch, Vivian Olender, Sandra Thompson, Bohdan Medwidsky, Robert Klymasz, Roman Onufrijchuk, T.D. Regehr, Matti Kaups, and others. Published in association with Historic Sites Services, Alberta Culture. See Ukrainians and Alberta in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
Manoly R. Lupul
Continuity and Innovation in the Poetry of the New York Group
New York Group
Melanie Pytlowany
Controversies over the Cultural Development of Pre-Ninth-Century Slavs
Ukraine's Historiography
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. In his presentation entitled, "Controversies over the Cultural Development of Pre-Ninth-Century Slavs," Roman Zurba, an M.A. student in archeology, discussed the Middle Dnieper region as the cradle of Kievan Rus ' . Research on the first millenium A.D. is an important period not only for the study of the origins of Rus', but also for the study of the cultural development of all East Slavic peoples. / Modern archeological controversy on this subject began near the end of the nineteenth century when the archeologist V. V. Khvoika uncovered two hitherto unknown cultures in Kiev Province—the Zarubynetsk (c. 200 B.C.-200 A.D.) and Cherniakhivsk (c. 200 A.D. -500 A.D.). He placed them in a direct cultural link to Kievan Rus’, and thereby formulated the autochthonous theory. This ran counter to the Gothic theory proposed by German and Polish scholars. In 1954, the Cherniakhivsk culture was characterized as multi-ethnic. In formulating these interpretations, researchers all saw the same physical and cultural manifestations. However, their analyses were based on scholarly upbringing, which affected their conceptions. The speaker then outlined the development and vicissitudes of Ukrainian archeology in postrevolution times. Political sanctions against the Kievan school have considerably altered archeological research. However, in spite of purges and the rise of new scholars, Khvoika's theory remains the most vital and workable. / The speaker outlined his view of archeological development in the Middle Dnieper region by interpreting the proto-historic period in terms of North American theory. Here the dominant concept is that of "tradition": a cultural continuum in a geographical area which is characterized by a definite patterning of subsistence practices, technology, and ecological adaptations. In this manner, attention was devoted to the stones-and-bones aspect of the three major cultures—Zarubynetsk, Cherniakhivsk, and early Slav (Penkivsk type) . The example of the archeological site at Horodok was used as a paleo-economic model to polemicize with historians who saw the early Slavs as cattle breeders migrating through eastern Europe. / The concept of autochthonous cultural development in the Middle Dnieper region in the first millenium A.D. was used to outline three major phases: the florescent period, the developed period, and the period of decline. The Zarubynetsk and Cherniakhivsk cultures were tied to the spread of the Celtic renascence and the outward expansion of the Roman empire into Dacia (Romania and Moldavia). The last period corresponded to the decline of the Roman empire and a period of attacks by various steppe peoples, i.e., the Avars. This period strongly resembled the post-Mongol culture in Ukraine with its return to more simple and primitive forms. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Roman Zurba
Courses on the History of Medieval and Early Modern Ukraine and Eastern Europe by Omeljan Pritsak: Syllabi and Selected Lectures
Ukrainian Studies
Historiography
In 1996 the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Studies of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies initiated its monograph series with the publication of Ukraine between East and West: Essays on Cultural History to the Early Eighteenth Century by Ihor Ševčenko. The basis for this book were lectures delivered by him in History 154a “History of the Ukraine to the 17th Century,” a course that he taught jointly with Omeljan Pritsak at Harvard University between 1970 and 1976. A companion volume with Professor Pritsak’s lectures was never published. Audio tapes of the course from Fall 1970 were preserved in the Harvard Language Laboratory for many years but were eventually transferred to the Harvard University Archives. Because their retention policy did not include departmental lectures they were unfortunately discarded. Fortunately a mimeographed prospectus of the course and full texts of seven lectures that were most probably read in class were found among Professor Pritsak’s papers preserved in the Omeljan Pritsak Research Center for Oriental Studies at the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (though in the above title they are referred to as selected, in fact they are the extant rather than selected lectures, though further research may uncover additional lectures). In addition Professor Victor Ostapchuk of the University of Toronto has provided a composite set of syllabus sheets from Fall 1970 and Fall 1972. These were obtained by him while he attended Harvard Summer School in 1973. In addition while a graduate student at Harvard he attended Pritsak’s History 1231 “Eastern Europe in its Eurasian Context, 600–1200 A.D.” in Spring 1978 and has also provided its syllabus. There is much overlap with History 154a but the coverage is of course broader. The materials posted here provide a view of Omeljan Pritsak’s style as teacher and scholar, which was marked by a stunning mix of erudition in multiple fields and a plethora of original ideas. Being lecture materials, they are not scholarly publications with references and should only be referred to as lectures rather than as articles. Despite the fact that their author did not have a chance to prepare them for publication and though most of the ideas in these lectures appear in some form in his various publications, the syllabus sheets and extant lectures provide examples in an accessible form of his fascinating contributions to Ukrainian and Eastern European history from a very broad Eurasian perspective. “Eurasian” here is meant not in the sense that the word is usually used today denoting the region between Europe and the Far East and South Asia, i.e., mostly the European and Asian parts of the former USSR, but rather in the broadest sense of both Europe and Asia. The syllabus sheets were photocopied in 1973 from mimeographs and because of the state of the technology at the time a few of the sheets are of poor quality and difficult to read. In particular the sheet entitled “The German (Magdeburg) Law, Humanism, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation in Ukraine” is difficult to read. There letters that were barely legible have been written over by hand. With careful inspection almost everything can be read. The prospectus to the 1972 course is also difficult to read, but the list of lectures is nearly identical with that in the prospectus from 1970 and that is why both are given in the pdf with the syllabus sheets to History 154a. The prospectus for History 154a 1970 is held in NaUKMA Archive, fond 10, 1137; the texts of lectures 8, 10-12, 14, 17, 18 are in NaUKMA Archive, fond 10, 1141. The rest of the material is from the papers of Victor Ostapchuk. The originals of his copies of History 154a materials are in NaUKMA Archive, fond 10, 1137 and of History 123 in NaUKMA Archive, fond 10, 1153. All materials held in the NaUKMA Archive are posted with its permission. NaUKMA Archive = Національний Університет “Києво-Могилянська ададемія,” Наукова Бібліотека, Науковий Архів (National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Academic Library, Academic Archive)
Omeljan Pritsak
CIUS, NaUKMA, Victor Ostapchuk, Frank Sysyn
Creating a Sacred Place: The Ukrainophiles and Shevchenko’s Tomb in Kaniv (1861 - ca. 1900)
Serhy Yekelchyk
Members of the UCBPF Executive that initiated the creating of CIUS. Sitting (l-r): Dr. Orest Talpash, Dr. Manoly R. Lupul, Peter Oluk. Standing (l-r): Bill Wasyl Diachuk, Orest Eveneshen, Peter Savaryn, Laurence Decore, and Edward Kay (ca. 1973-75)
Culture as a Nation-Building Tool in Contemporary Ukraine
Oleksandr Hrytsenko
D. D. Bilyi, Ukraintsi Kubani v 1792-1921 Rokakh: Evoliutsiia Sotsialnykh Identychnostei
Olga Andriewsky
D. P. Krvavych and H. H. Stelmaschuk. Ukrainskyi Narodnyi Odiah XVII — pochatky XIX st. v Akvareliakh Iu. Hlohovskoho
Andriy Nahachewsky
Daniel Beauvois. La bataille de la terre en Ukraine, 1863-1914: Les Polonais et les conflits socio-ethniques
Stephen Velychenko
Danylo Husar Struk, editor in chief. Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Volumes 3-5
Myroslav Shkandrij
Danylo Husar Struk: A Select Bibliography
David A. Frick. Meletij Smotryts'kyj
Dushan Bednarsky
David G. Rempel with Cornelia Rempel Carlson. A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923
Paul Werth
David J. Carter. Behind Canadian Barbed Wire: Alien, Refugee and Prisoner of War Camps in Canada 1911-1916
Lubomyr Y. Luciuk
David J. Goa, Seasons of Celebration: Ritual in Eastern Christian Culture/Temps de Celebration: Les Rites dans la Culture Chretienne de I’Orient
Daniel Sahas
David Lane. The End of Social Inequality? Class, Status and Power under State Socialism
Boris Balan
David R. Marples. Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine
David R. Marples. Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940s
Yaroslav Bilinsky
December 1976—Undergraduate Scholarships
Archive
CIUS Press
December 1988—Study of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi Published
CIUS Publications
December 1991—New Study of Ukrainians in South Eastern Galicia
December 1991—New Work on Ukrainian Economics
December 1991—Ukrainian Economic History: Interpretive Essays
December 1992—The Proposed New Constitution of Ukraine Discussed
History of Ukraine
December 1994—Second Session of "The Russian-Ukrainian Encounter" 14–15 November 1994, New York
Ukrainian–Russian Relations
December 1995—Professor Iaroslav Isaievych Lectures in Toronto
Press
Deconstructing Gogol's / Hohol's Two 'Souls'
Theater
Ukrainian Literature
On May 26, 2002 Prof. Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj (University of Alberta) gave the third Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Deconstructing Gogol's / Hohol's Two 'Souls'"
Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj
Democracy Unfulfilled: The Establishment of Electoral Authoritarianism in Ukraine
Paul D’ Anieri
From left - B. Myhal, Dr. J. Woydishyn, Dr Pyuzyk, Dr. W. Darhovich, Dr. J. Teslia
Demythifying a Universal Hero: Spyrydon Cherkasenko’ s Vision of Don Juan
Robert Karpiak
Depictions of WWII in Ukrainian Socialist Realist Literature (1941–1943)
On May 18, 2012 Prof. Valentyna Kharkhun (Mykola Hohol State University of Nizhyn) gave the 13th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Depictions of WWII in Ukrainian Socialist Realist Literature (1941-1943)"
Valentyna Kharkhun
Deshcho u Spravi Natsional'nykh Menshostej v Polshchi
Vasyl' Poltavets'
Detente, the Helsinki Accords and the Soviet Opposition: A Discussion with Dissident Leonid Plyushch
Dissident
Soviet Ukraine
Democracy
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On September 2, 1977, Mr. Leonid Plyushch, a well-known Soviet Ukrainian dissident and former political prisoner presented an Institute seminar entitled "Detente, the Helsinki Accords and the Soviet Opposition: A Discussion with Dissident Leonid Plyushch." Before his dismissal and imprisonment in 1968 Mr. Plyushch worked in the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in Kiev. He was allowed to leave the Soviet Union on January 8, 1976 following an international campaign on his behalf. The chairmen of a number of University departments, as well as several invited guests, attended the seminar. / Mr. Plyushch began by discussing the economic and moral crises facing Soviet society. The present leadership does not allow for an open discussion of the poor state of the Soviet economy and the rising crime rate, and relies on an elaborate system of "disinformation" to conceal these problems. There is a serious lack of information about crime and various forms of deviance in the Soviet Union, and even scientific-technological research is hampered by the prevailing secrecy and by strange (even irrational) demands from above. To continue stifling discussion of the problems, however, will prove fruitless. The contradictions in Soviet society, Plyushch declared, will lead to a political crisis, unless there is greater democratization in all sectors of public life. / The dissidents, those who refuse to go along with the system of the "big lie," demand that the Soviet Union respect its own constitution and the international human rights agreements which it has signed. All sectors of public opinion in the West must ensure that Soviet and western governments do not find some accommodation which would allow for the continuing repression of free thought in the Soviet Union. / The most valuable aspect of the seminar was its interdisciplinary character. During the stimulating question period, Mr. Plyushch, dealt with a wide range of questions on topics such as Soviet scientific policy, child psychology, the theory of games, and structuralism. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977)
Leonid Plyushch
Development in the Shadow: Studies in Ukrainian Economics
Modern Ukraine
Economy
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Political Economy
The Russian occupation of Ukraine under the tsarist and communist regimes exerted a decisive influence on the development of Ukrainian economics. The present collection of essays, written over a ten-year period, explores some of the pertinent issues. The 1917 Revolution can be taken as a logical dividing point for comparing the impact of the two different political and economic systems on the performance of Ukraine's economy and the welfare of its population. It appears that the effect of the Soviet regime was in general harmful to Ukraine. Relative to other Soviet republics, its economic growth was one of the lowest, and income per capita deteriorated. Despite the inferior performance of the Ukrainian economy, the Soviet regime continued year in and year out the unrequited transfer of part of Ukraine's national income to other regions of the USSR in greater amounts that its tsarist predecessor. Geopolitical considerations were the primary motivation. Analysis of most of the period since World War II suggests that, in order to achieve Soviet political and military goals, Ukrainian authorities had to be left without any real decision-making power, despite official propaganda to the contrary. In order to integrate Ukraine into the Russian Empire / USSR, it was not enough to control its economy completely: its intellectual base had to be destroyed as well. Before 1917, the imperial establishment tended to appropriate the contributions of Ukrainian scholars to economics — a practice that continued under the Soviets. The overall conclusion of this study is that Moscow's administration of the Ukrainian economy, regardless of the system in place, was detrimental to its performance and to the population's welfare, and dangerous to the survival of the Ukrainian nation itself. See Industry, Dolyna oil field, and Dnieper Hydroelectric Station in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
Iwan S. Koropeckyj
Dieter Pohl. Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien, 1941-1944: Organisation und Durchfuhrung eines Staatlichen Massenverbrechens
John-Paul Himka
Dietrich Neufeld. A Russian Dance of Death: Revolution and Civil War in the Ukraine and Michael Palij. The Anarchism of Nestor Makhno, 1918–1921: An Aspect of the Ukrainian Revolution
Michael Malet
Dimitry Pospielovsky, The Russian Church Under the Soviet Regime, 1917-1982
Andrew Sorokowski
Myroslav Prokop and Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky
Ostap Tarnawsky
Dissidents in Ukraine before 1972: A Summary Statistical Profil
Bohdan Krawchenko and Jim A. Carter
Dmytro Chyzhevsky and Petr Bitsilli on the "Problem of the Double"
Maria Vasilieva
Dmytro Chyzhevsky and the Tradition of Ukrainian “Cordology”
Maryna Tkachuk
Werner Korthaase
Dmytro Čyževs'kyj. A History of Ukrainian Literature (From the 11th to the End of the 19th Century)
Marko Pavlyshyn
Dmytro Dontsov and Interwar Ukrainian Nationalism
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
Dmytro Doroschenko. Die Ukraine und Deutschland: Neun Jahrhunderte Deutsch-Ukrainischer Beziehungen
Karel C. Berkhoff
Thomas M. Prymak
Dmytro Tabachnyk et al, eds. Nahorody Ukrainy: Istoriia, fakty, dokumenty, 3 vols.; Vasyl Kremen, Dmytro Tabachnyk, and Vasyl Tkachenko, eds. Ukraina: Altematyvy Postupu. Krytyka Istorychnoho Dosvidu
Taras Kuzio
Do Pytannia pro Sotsialno-Ekonomichne Stanovyshche Selianstva Volyni v Pershyi Polovyni XVII st
Iryna Voronchyk
Documentation for Ukrainian Studies: Reflections on the Background, Problems, and Perspectives of the Harvard Experience
Edward Kasinec
Dokiia Humenna. Mynule Plyve v Pryideshnie: Rozpovid pro Trypillia
Doktor Faust. Motyvy Istoriosofii Osval'da Shpenglera v Literaturnij Publitsystytsi Dmytra Dontsova
Olia Hnatiuk
Dominic Lieven. The Aristocracy in Europe, 1815-1914
Orest Subtelny
Donald Avery. “Dangerous Foreigners”: European Immigrant Workers and Labour Radicalism in Canada, 1896-1932
Orest Matynowych
Doslidnyky arkheolohiï Ukraïny : ent͡syklopedychnyĭ slovnyk-dovidnyk
Archeology
Bibliography
Biography
This encyclopedic handbook, prepared by the well-known Kyiv archeologist Halyna Mezentseva, is the first work containing brief biographical and bibliographic information on close to 600 archeologists whose work focuses on ancient Ukraine and Ukrainian antiquities. The handbook was published by Siverians’ka Dumka in Chernihiv with the financial assistance of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
Halyna Mezentseva
Doslidzhennia ta Statti. Rozstriliana Muza – Mech i Pero – Ukrajins'ka Literatura na Zakhodi
P.M. Kraliuk
Dovzhenko and Montage: Issues of Style and Narration in the Silent Films
Vance Kepley, Jr.
Dr. Manoly Lupul, the first CIUS Director
Dr. Manoly Lupul, the first CIUS Director (1976-1986)
Dryzhypil's'ka Bytva 1655 r. na Storinkakh Virshovanoji Khroniky
o. Iurii Mytsyk
Dual Forms in Literary Ukrainian and Dialects
Nicolae Pavliuc
Dukhova Heneza Ukraiinskoho Vidrodzhennia
Orest Zilynsky
Dziuba's Internationalism or Russification? Revisited: A Reappraisal of Dziuba's Treatment of Leninist Nationalities Policy
Bohdan P. Nahaylo
Early Modern Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine: Culture and Cultural Relations
Iaroslav Isaievych
Early Ukrainian Immigration to the United States and the Conversion of the Ukrainian Catholic Parish in Minneapolis to Russian Orthodoxy
Michael Palij
Edmonton Newspaper Reports about the 1932–1933 Famine in Ukraine
Serge Cipko
Edward Allworth, ed. Ethnic Russia in the USSR: The Dilemma of Dominance
Peter J. Potichnyj
Edyta Bojanowska. Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism
Vitaly Chernetsky
Elizabeth Pond. The Rebirth of Europe
Marta Dyczok
Emma Andijewska's Roman pro dobru liudynu : The Displaced Persons Camp as Purgatory
Displaced Persons
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
Empire Loyalism and Minority Nationalism in Great Britainand Imperial Russia, 1707 to 1914: Institutions, Law, and Nationality in Scotland and Ukraine
On December 4 1976 in Edmonton, CIUS and the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Europe (Sarcelles, France) signed an agreement to jointly publish what becomes the five-volume Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Sitting (l-r): Dr. George Luckyj, Dr. Volodymyr Kubijovyč, Dr. Manoly R. Lupul. Standing (l-r): Peter Savaryn, Dr. Atanas Figol, Dr. Ivan L. Rudnytsky
Encyclopedia of Ukraine launch in Philadelphia—1996
From left - V. Baranetsky, S. Trofimenko, D. Struk, J. Zapilsky
Encyclopedia of Ukraine—Banquet, Château Louis Edmonton—1993
Ernst Cassirer and Dmytro Chyzhevsky: An Instance of Cassirer’ s Reception among the Slavs
Roman Mnich