This festschrift for an esteemed professor of Central and Eastern European history at Harvard University contains 35 articles, primarily written by North American scholars of history, international studies, Slavic languages and literatures, and other fields. The collection includes such widely ranging topics as the political potential of women's community organizations; text and subtext in Roman Ivanychuk's Mal'vy ; and nationalism and communist multiethnic polities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Poland. Supplemented by a bibliography of the work of Roman Szporluk, these fresh, urgent essays mirror Szporluk's broad and comparativist approach. Topics range from the rise of Ukrainian national consciousness in Galicia, to nationalism in contemporary Serbia; from the rise of private property in the Russia of Catherine II, to contemporary Russian attitudes toward Ukrainian nation building. Other essays explore the impact of theories of nationalism on the discipline of history and critique Ernest Gellner's "constructivist" theory of the nation.
Tabula Gratulatoria v ``Behold vi Larissa Szporluk Contributors xii Preface xv Introduction xvii The Bibliography of Roman Szporluk 1(28) Ksenya Kiebuzinski Articles Women in Ukraine: The Political Potential of Community Organizations 29(20) Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak Systemic Crisis and National Mobilization: The Case of the ``Memorandum of the Serbian Academy 49(22) Audrey Helfant Budding Europe West and East: Thoughts on History, Culture, and Kosovo 71(18) Walter D. Connor Progressive Judaism in Poland: Dilemmas of Modernity and Identity 89(12) Steven D. Corrsin The Slavic Saint Jerome: An Entertainment 101(12) John V. A. Fine Surzhyk: The Rules of Engagement 113(24) Michael S. Flier Native Land, Promised Land, Golden Land: Jewish Emigration from Russia and Ukraine 137(28) Zvi Gitelman Symbolic Autobiography in the Prose of Mykola Khvylovyi (Some Preliminary Observations) 165(16) George G. Grabowicz The Odyssey of the Petliura Library and the Records of the Ukrainian National Republic during World War II 181(28) Patricia Kennedy Grimsted Taras Bulba on the Pampas and the Fjords: A Ukrainian Cossack Theme in Western Opera 209(16) Lubomyr A. Hajda The Borderlands of Power: Territory and Great Power Status in Russia at the Beginning and at the End of the Twentieth Century 225(26) Fiona Hill Krakivski visti: An Overview 251(12) John-Paul Himka National Identities in Post-Soviet Ukraine: The Case of Lviv and Donetsk 263(20) Yaroslav Hrytsak Text and Subtext in Roman Ivaychuks Malvy 283(10) Assya Humesky Losing Faith: The Slovak-Hungarian Constitutional Struggle, 1906-1914 293(20) Owen V. Johnson Was Iaroslav of Halych Really Shooting Sultans in 1185? 313(16) Edward L. Keenan The Habsburg Empire (Re)Disintegrates: The Roots of Opposition in Lviv and Ljubljana, 1988 329(14) Padric Kenney The Image of Jews in Ukraines Intellectual Tradition: The Role of Istoriia Rusov 343(16) Zenon E. Kohut Nationalizing the Public 359(14) Rita Krueger Class Interest and the Shaping of a ``Non-Historical Nation: Reassessing the Galician Ruthenian Path to Ukrainian Identity 373(20) Hugo Lane The Polish and Ukrainian Languages: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship 393(14) Michal Lesiow Interwar Poland and Romania: The Nationalization of Elites, the Vanishing Middle, and the Problem of Intellectuals 407(24) Irina Livezeanu Private Property Comes to Russia: The Reign of Catherine II 431(12) Richard Pipes The Revolutionary Crisis of 1846-1849 and Its Place in the Development of Nineteenth-Century Galicia 443(28) Antony Polonsky The First Constitution of Ukraine (5 April 1710) 471(26) Omeljan Pritsak Nationalism and Communist Multiethnic Polities: The Legacies of Ethnicization 497(12) Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone Religious Exclusion and State Building: The Roman Catholic Church and the Attempted Revival of Greek Catholicism in the Chelm Region, 1918-1924 509(18) Konrad Sadkowski Inscriptions East and West in the First Millennium: The Common Heritage and the Parting of the Ways 527(12) Ihor Sevcenko Russians in Ukraine: Problems and Prospects 539(16) Roman Solchanyk Nationalism and the Public Sphere: The Limits of Rational Association in the Nineteenth-Century Polish Countryside 555(14) Keely Stauter-Halsted History and the Making of Nations 569(20) Ronald Grigor Suny Grappling with the Hero: Hrushevskyi Confronts Khmelnytskyi 589(22) Frank E. Sysyn Ernest Gellner and the ``Constructivist Theory of Nation 611(10) Andrzej Walicki Old-Fashioned Slavs at Carnival in Venice: The Dramatic Dilemma of Eastern Europe 621(12) Larry Wolff The Diminishing Burden of the Soviet Past: Russian Assessments of Russian-Ukrainian Linkages 633 William Zimmerman
Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judiac Studies, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, and Research Scientist at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan. Lubomyr A. Hajda is Senior Advisor to the Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. John-Paul Himka is Professor of History in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta. Roman Solchanyk is a Consultant at the Rand Corporation. Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak is senior program officer in the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Audrey Helfant Budding is Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Walter D. Connor is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Departrment of Political Science at Boston University. Steven D. Corrsin is Acting Head of Acquisitions at Wayne State University Libraries. Michael S. Flier is Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. George G. Grabowicz is Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted is a Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Fiona Hill is Director of Strategic Planning at the Eurasia Foundation. Yaroslav Hrytsak is Director of the Institute for Historical Research, Ivan Franko Lviv National University. Assya Humesky is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Emerita, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Owen V. Johnson is Professor in the School of Journalism and Adjunct Professor in the Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington. Edward L. Keenan was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History at Harvard University and Director (19982007) of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Padraic Kenney is Associate Professor of East European History in the Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder. Ksenya Kiebuzinski is Petro Jacyk Bibliographer in Ukrainian Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Zenon E. Kohut is Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. Rita Krueger is Associate Director, Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Hugo Lane is Assistant Professor of History, Polytechnic University. Michal Lesiow is Professor and Director, Emeritus, Department of Ukrainian Philology, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University. Irina Livezeanu is a Professor in the Department of History, University of Pittsburgh. Richard Pipes is Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Antony Polonsky is Walter Stern Hilborn Professor of Judaic and Social Sduties, Brandeis University. Omeljan Pritsak is Mykhailo Hryshevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone is Professor of Political Science, Emerita, Carleton University. Konrad Sadkowski is Assistant Professor of History, University of Northern Iowa. Ihor Sevcenko is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University. Keely Stauter-Halsted is Assistant Professor of History, Michigan State University. Ronald Girgor Suny is Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago. Frank E. Sysyn is Director at the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Studies at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. Larissa Szporluk is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bowling Green State University. Andrzej Walicki is Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Notre Dame. Larry Wolff is Silver Professor of European History at New York University, Executive Director of the NYU Remarque Institute, and Co-Director of NYU Florence. William Zimmerman is Professor of Political Science and Director and Research Scientist at the Center for Political Studies, and Research Scientist at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.