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The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University has established the Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies as a medium for occasional papers, lectures, reports, reprints, long articles, and recent theses of particular merit. It also is a venue for monograph-length works that utilize new analyses and methodologies that broaden the field of Ukrainian studies. The series is not geographically limited to Ukraine proper--it also will examine questions of importance to surrounding countries, inasmuch as these questions are significant to the history and current development of Ukraine.

This booklet contains the proceedings of the first Annual Conference sponsored by the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, and the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University at Harvard University, May 12-13, 1994. Kostiantyn P. Morozov, first Minister of Defense of independent Ukraine, gave the keynote address. Papers exploring recent Ukrainian military history and the construction and Ukrainianization of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were presented by Professors Zenon Kohut (Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies), Mark von Hagen (Columbia University), and John Jaworsky (University of Waterloo). Responses to these papers were given by senior Ukrainian military personnel who attended the conference. The Military Tradition in Ukrainian History will be useful to specialists in East European affairs, military historians, and Ukrainianists.

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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, published by Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn. on February 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1149 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine. (book review)
Author: Natalia Shostak
Publication: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2002
Publisher: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn.
Volume: 39Issue: 1Page: 121(3)

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This digital document is an article from Church History, published by American Society of Church History on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 627 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine.(Book Review)
Author: Tandy McConnell
Publication: Church History (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: American Society of Church History
Volume: 74Issue: 1Page: 173(2)

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This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1055 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995.(Review)
Author: David Saunders
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 95Issue: 1Page: 293(3)

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Red cloth, index, 12 small maps, 6 appendices, bibliography. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World Watch, published by Worldwatch Institute on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 765 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Between the lines.(demographic history and the impact on the the Ukraine between 1914 - 2001)
Publication: World Watch (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: Worldwatch Institute
Volume: 16Issue: 4Page: 30(2)

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Carpatho-Ukraine in the Twentieth Century offers political memoirs and commentary by Vincent Shandor, an elder statesman who served as head of the Carpatho-Ukrainian Representation to the Prague Federal government during the period preceding and at the beginning of World War II. From his unique first-person perspective, Shandor analyzes the shifting political and legal status of Carpatho-Ukraine from the twilight of the Habsburg Empire through the region's two decades as Czechoslovak "Subcarpathian Ruthenia" and onto the wartime reoccupation by Hungary and the region's ultimate incorporation into the Ukrainian SSR. Significant both as scholarly critique and as autobiography, Shandor's work presents materials never before available in English about events leading up to and during World War II. It will be valuable to all those interested in the twentieth-century development of Central Europe. ... Read more

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A major work on a little-known region of Europe
Shandor tells the modern history of a section of Ukraine now known as the Zakarpatskaya Oblast. This is the fascinating story of a country that has been a part of five different nations in the 20th Century and whose peopletoday live in six different countries. It was a part of the HungarianEmpire until the end of the First World War. After the war it was promisedautonomy as Subcarpathian Ruthenia, the third part of Czechoslovakia, butthis was never realized until the break-up of this country in 1938-39. Thenfor three days in March of 1939 it was the independent country ofCarpatho-Ukraine, until the Hungarian Army crossed the border to reclaimit. In 1945 the Czechs and Russians agreed to make it part of the Ukrainewithout consulting its people. Shandor was the Ruthenian delegate in Praguebetween the two wars and has quite a tale to tell. Occasionally, the readeris swamped with names and details mentioned to prove Shandor's point ofview. The presentation could have been more balanced, but overall it isfascinating reading. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Junior Scholastic, published by Scholastic, Inc. on March 7, 2005. The length of the article is 745 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ukraine: time line of key events.(Skills Master 2)
Publication: Junior Scholastic (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 7, 2005
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 107Issue: 14Page: T-7(1)

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This digital document is an article from For A Change, published by For A Change on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 907 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ukraine--a forerunner for Russia?(Column)
Author: Peter Thwaites
Publication: For A Change (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: For A Change
Volume: 18Issue: 2Page: 24(1)

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Ukraine is the largest new state to appear on the map of Europe this century. With a population of more than 50 million people and a territory larger than France, the new Ukrainian state faces many challenges, not least of which is to forge a national identity after years of Soviet rule. Burden of Dreams examines daily life in Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine, showing why Ukrainian nationalism and its program of "Ukrainianization"have appealed to the largest Russian diaspora and to millions of Russified Ukrainians. Focusing on schools, festivals, commemorative ceremonies, and monuments, Catherine Wanner shows how Soviet-created narratives have been recast to reflect a post-Soviet Ukrainocentric perspective. In the process, we see how new histories are understood and acted upon.This reveals regional cleavages and the resilience of cultural differences produced by the Soviet regime.For some people, the system they criticized yesterday is the one they long for today.The struggle to remember or to forget is particularly intense in post-Soviet societies. Burden of Dreams is especially valuable for showing us the monumental task facing a Ukrainian state that is seeking to craft cultural solidarity after years of Soviet rule. ... Read more

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Burden of Dreams
"Burden of Dreams" brings the human element in the midst of historical events. The author shows how the fundamental changes in Ukraine has and is effecting the lives of its people, something that cannot beforgotten in any study of this kind. Too often an author focuses on oneelement, such as politics or economics, and forgets that these changeseffect far more than national policies. ... Read more