Political Communities and Gendered Ideologies in Contemporary Ukraine (The Petryshyn Memorial Lecture, Harvard University, 26 April 1994).
In this inaugural Vasyl and Maria Petryshyn Memorial Lecture, esteemed author Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak (Feminists Despite Themselves) views the contemporary political landscape in post-independence Ukraine from the point of view of Ukraine's history of self-help organizations, their programs, the question of gendered roles and views there, and finally the problem that Ukraine has had in gauging social reality when programmatic utopianism confronts economic and political forces outside organizational programs. Many of her observations are clearly prescient and retain their clarity and importance for contemporary thinkers on Ukraine. 25 pp. ISBN 0-916458-72-5 (booklet) (HUP/BOHPOX) $5.50. |
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Bohachevsky-ChomiakThe Great Soviet Peasant War. Bolsheviks and Peasants, 1917-33
Andrea Graziosi
In this challenging reinterpretation of the Soviet Bolsheviks' policies tow ard the peasantry in the pre-WWII period, Professor Graziosi posits the struggle between the peasantry and the Soviet authorities as the single most important factor in the Soviet Union during this period. He further analyzes the conflict using the metaphors of a military campaign (based on the actual thinking and pronouncements of Bolshevik leaders of the time) to show that the Soviet confrontation with the peasantry was perhaps the greatest peasant conflict in European history. This study will prove of interest to all students of European history and specifically those interested in Eastern Europe, Soviet history, and the East European peasantry.
87 pp. softcover, ISBN 0-916458-83-0. LC98-147548 (HUP/GRAGRE) $5.50.
Trophies of War and Empire: The Archival Heritage of Ukraine; World
War II; and the International Politics of Restitution
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, foreword by Charles Kecskémeti
The collapse of the S
oviet
Union and the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II have brought
attention to the displaced cultural and archival heritage of many nations.
The situation of Ukraine provides a striking example of the many international
problems involved in questions of restitution. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
considers (among many topics) the problems of defining the archival heritage
of Ukraine vis-a-vis Russia; international precedents for post-imperial
archival devolutions and postwar restitution; intentional Soviet archival
destruction in 1941; the Ukrainian component of Soviet library and archival
trophies in Moscow and Kyiv; Russia's bitterly disputed 1998 law nationalizing
cultural trophies; pending issues regarding cultural treasures (especially
libraries and archives) between Poland and Ukraine; recent international
negotiations regarding displaced cultural treasures; and post-1991 Ukrainian
restitution policies. Containing significant new revelations about cultural
treasures previously thought lost, Trophies of War and Empire will be
of interest to all those studying the contemporary rebuilding of cultural
and intellectual institutions in Eastern Europe, historians of Ukraine
and Eastern Europe, and specialists on the retrieval of assets lost to
the Nazis or Communist regimes.
"Patricia Grimsted's Trophies of War and Empire is a tour-de-force of scholarship…Her narrative is full of revelations about the unsolved mysteries of wartime looting and her exhaustive documentation, footnotes, and bibliography are an essential resource for all those with an interest in provenance research and restitution."--Lynn H. Nicholas, author of The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War.
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted is a Senior Research Associate at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University and coordinator of ArcheoBiblioBase, an archival directory database in Ukraine and Russia.
Charles Kecskémeti is Secretary-General Emeritus of the International Council on Archives.
798 pp. softcover, ISBN 0-916458-76-8 (HUP/GRITRO) $19.95.
The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha
Oleh Lysheha and James Brasfield, trans.
"Out of a silence imposed by history and ignorance comes the shattering
voice of Oleh Lysheha. Ukraine has its overdue political autonomy, and
now, with these poems and play, an equally overdue rendition of Ukrainian
life, love, and stalwart hope. Lysheha's 'Swan' -- 'My God, I'm vanishing...'
-- alone makes the book a treasure. This work offers American readers
in particular not just a new voice, but, even in translation, a new language,
a new way of seeing. Lysheha speaks through indirection, and observes
through the sides of his eyes, but the effect is a set of blows to the
heart, which leave one more alive, not less." --James Carroll (author
of An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between
Us)
"Psychologically inward, phantasmagoric, Oleh Lysheha's poems are darkly comic fables about the risks, pleasures, and limitations of trying to perceive the Sublime in Nature. What is original in his poems is his ironic understanding of how absurd gestures like sitting on an ant hole are as likely to provoke 'visionary hours' as the contemplation of 'one of those heavenly days which cannot die.' His interest in Nature is decidedly lowercase -- nature in its specific operations, and not as a springboard for metaphysics. An alder by a stream may become suggestive of symbolic meaning, but the poet never insists. This modesty of scope shouldn't be mistaken for modesty of ambition: his poems are quirky, uncompromising, full of unexpected dips and veers of sensibility." --Tom Sleigh (author of The Dreamhouse)
121 pp. softcover, ISBN 0-916458-90-3 (HUP/LYSCOL) $13.50.
Above and Beyond: From Soviet General to Ukrainian State Builder
Kostiantyn P. Morozov, intro. by Sherman W. Garnett
Above and Beyond is the first book by a major Ukrainian independence figure to appear in the West and is the first by a former Soviet general to discuss the inner workings of the USSR's military. Morozov provides behind-the-scenes insights on Kravchuk, Yeltsin, and other important players still active today. His book will firmly alter our perception of the USSR and its demise, the Soviet military machine, and the rise of modern, independent Ukraine.
In September 1991 Major General Kostiantyn Morozov informed the Soviet
Armed Forces Command that he was the new Ukrainian Minister of Defense.
He then set out to create the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF), mounting a
brilliant campaign to remove from Ukraine military personnel who were
not Ukrainian citizens and not loyal to the new Ukrainian state; taking
over the Ukrainian-based assets, nuclear and otherwise, of the Soviet
Army; and firmly grounding the idea of an independent UAF in the public
mind. Within a year of assuming his post, he oversaw the second-largest
army in Europe and the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world. The
shock waves of his efforts were felt throughout the former Soviet Union,
since his efforts ensured the realization of Ukrainian independence.
Morozov guided his forces through a minefield of intrigues as various
figures sought to undermine the UAF and subordinate it to the armed forces
of the CIS (and, thereby, to Russia). He stood as an important figure
in the political landscape for his blunt candor and total devotion to
Ukrainian independence.
Above and Beyond will appeal to all those who are interested in the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of the newly independent states. It also is a valuable resource for those interested in Soviet military history and the creation of the new armed forces in Ukraine.
Kostiantyn Petrovych Morozov was the first Minister of Defense of independent Ukraine (September 1991 to October 1993). After his retirement from that post, he was a senior research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Ukrainian Research Institute, a Minister-Counselor for relations with NATO in the Embassy of Ukraine in Brussels, and Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Mission to NATO. He currently is Ukraine's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Iran. Sherman W. Garnett is the Dean of the James Madison College at Michigan State University. He has served in the U.S. Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency, and was a Senior Associate for Russia, Ukraine, and Poland at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of Keystone in the Arch: Ukraine and the Emerging Security Environment of Eastern and Central Europe (1997).
320 pp., 39 photographs., maps. ISBN 0-916458-77-6 (clothbound)
(HUP/MORABO)
$31.50.
The Military Tradition in Ukrainian History: Its Role in the Construction
of Ukraine's Armed Forces.
Kostiantyn P. Morozov et al.
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.
93 pp. ISBN 0-916458-73-3 (booklet) (HUP/MORMIL) $5.50.
Making Ukraine, and Remaking It (The Petryshyn Memorial Lecture, Harvard
University, 14 April 2003
Alexander J. Motyl
Independent
Ukraine is, in part, the making of those who oppressed, dominated, and
brutalized it for centuries. The challenge now is to "remake" it into
a dynamic, modern, and prosperous nation in its own right and beyond the
East-West divide. This is the central idea of Motyl's lecture, presented
at Harvard University. Motyl is associate professor of political science
and deputy director of the Center for Global Change and Governance at
Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. He is a recognized authority on
the Soviet Union, post-Soviet Ukraine, Russia, and the other newly independent
states of Eurasia.
12 pp. ISBN 0-916458-99-7 (booklet) (HURI) $5.00.
Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography
Serhii Plokhy
Tsars
and Cossacks explores the ways in which Ukrainian Cossacks used icon
painting to navigate not only their relationship vis-à-vis God,
but also vis-à-vis the Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and
his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709) — the Cossack Hetman
Ivan Mazepa — be depicted in the same icon? Why did the Cossack colonels
commission icons with the portraits of their tsars, but not of the own
Cossack leaders, the hetmans? Could a Catholic king be portrayed in an
Orthodox icon? Why are the Prussian tsars and Orthodox hierarchs missing
on some of the Zaporozhian Cossack icons? In this groundbreaking study,
Dr. Plokhy provides answers to these and many other questions pertaining
to the political and religious culture of Ukrainian Cossackdom, as reflected
in the Cossack era paintings, icons and woodcuts. By encouraging the iconography
to "speak", Tsars and Cossacks helps to broaden and deepen
our understanding of Ukrainian iconography, as well as Russian imperial
political culture.
Serhii Plokhy received his doctorate in history from Kyiv University
in 1990. 
He
was the chair of the Department of World History at Dnipropetrovsk University
and conducted research at the Institute of Archeography and Source Studies
of the National Academy Sciences of Ukraine, where he headed the Department
of the History of Culture. He currently serves as the Associate Director
of the Peter Jacyk Centre and the Director of the Church Studies Program
at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (University of Alberta).
In 2002 he was the Petro Jacyk Distinquished Fellow at the Ukrainian Research
Institute of Harvard University. He is the author of The Cossacks and
Religion in Early Modern Ukraine (Oxford University Press, 2001).
101 pp., illus.; ISBN 0-916458-95-4 (paperback) (HUP/PLOTSA) $18.95.
The Strategic Role of Ukraine: Diplomatic Addresses and Lectures (1994-1997).
Yuri Shcherbak
Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States (1994 to the present) provides a unique insight into the strategic relationship that has grown between the two countries from 1989 to the present. The volume includes an in-depth introduction that analyzes the nature of that relationship, a detailed chronology of U.S.-Ukrainian relations, and selected addresses and lectures on subjects ranging from geopolitical stability to ecology and the nuclear threat to the growth of international trade. As a trained epidemiologist, writer or note, a founder and leader of Ukraine's Green Movement, and Ukraine's first ambassador to Israel, Shcherbak has a fascinating wealth of experience to bring to bear on the problems he analyzes. This volume will be of great interest to all those interested in U.S.-Ukrainian relations and Central and Eastern European security and development.
"...an important contribution to a better understanding
of Ukraine's position in the world and Ukraine's foreign policy...I both
welcome and applaud its appearance..."
-Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
"The Strategic Role of Ukraine is a collection of unique
and penetrating insights that goes beyond observations about the ebb and
flow of diplomacy and that, instead, focuses on broad strategic trends."
-The Hon. Paula J. Dobriansky
"As
NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe I was fully aware of Ukraine's
unique strategic position in Europe...I completely agree with the author's
conclusion as to the necessity of Ukraine's integration into Euro-Atlantic
institutions...Ambassador Shcherbak's book is full of facts and useful
data in understanding Ukraine's strategic importance in the past, for
the present, and into the future. I highly recommend this book to serious
scholars of Ukraine and Europe.
-Gen. George Joulwan (U.S. Armed Forces)
"Essential reading for anyone interested in Ukraine's
emergence as a major player in international politics by a man who helped
make it so."
-Dr. Paul Goble
160 pp. 3 b&w photographs, 1 map; softcover, ISBN 0-916458-85-7 (HUP/SHCSTR) $13.00.
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe. A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872-1905).
Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism
and
twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of
Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of
this century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz
influenced or infuriated most of the leaders of the various socialist
movements of Central Europe and France. His central ideas ultimately were
not accepted by the socialist mainstream at the time of his death. However,
ninety years later, we see that they anticipated late twentieth-century
understanding on the importance of nationalism as a social force and the
parameters of socialism in political theory and praxis. Kelles-Krauz was
one of the only theoreticians of his age to advocate Jewish national rights
as being equivalent to , for example, Polish national rights and he correctly
saw the struggle for national sovereignty as being central to future events
in Europe. Specialists will welcome this first major monograph in English
devoted to Kelles-Krauz. Students will also find helpful biographical
guides, maps, and personal photographs of Kelles-Krauz, his colleagues,
and his family.
Winner of the Oskar Halecki Book Prize for Polish and East European History
351 pp., b&w photographs, maps. softcover, ISBN 0-916458-84-9. LC98-112178 (HUP/SNYNAT) $18.95.
Poland Between East and West. The Controversies over Self-Definition
and Modernization in Partitioned Poland (The August Zaleski Lectures,
Harvard University, 18-22 April 1994).
Andrzej Walicki
The three sections in this booklet represent revised and edited versions of the three August Zaleski Lectures given by world renowned thinker Andrzej Walicki. In them Walicki charts a new understanding of Poland's entry into the modern age as it sought to reinvent its concept of nationhood after having been partitioned among three of its longtime rivals. Walicki presents new paradigms for understanding the rise and nature of Polish nationalism, the impact of Positivism and Socialism, and the question of integral nationalism. These texts will be stimulating reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century East Central European history.
50 pp. ISBN 0-916458-71-7 booklet (HUP/WALPOZ) $5.50.
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