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David Frick's biography-the first major English-language work on Smotryc'kyj-examines the ways in which established cultures were altered by cross-cultural understandings and misunderstandings, resulting from the confrontation and mutual adaptation of two or more diverse cultures.

Professor Oleh Ilnytzkyj seeks to rectify the misinterpretations surrounding the Futurists and their leader Mykhail Semenko by providing the first major English-language monograph on this vibrant literary movement and its charismatic leader.

Kistiakovsky's life was devoted to the development of a government based on respect for national minorities, human rights and constitutional federalism. This study shows a fresh urgency of Kistiakovsky's ideas as Russia and other former Soviet countries seek to establish values he put forth.

Containing the papers presented at the Fourth Quinquennial Conference on Ukrainian economics at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University in September 1990, this volume focuses on the Ukrainian economy during the past decade. Statistical data and detailed maps support the text.

Mark R. Baker focuses on Ukrainian-speaking peasants during the 1914-1921 revolutionary period. Arguing that the peasants of Kharkiv province thought of themselves primarily as members of their particular village communities, and not as members of any nation or class, he advances the historiography beyond the ideologized categories of the Cold War.

Christian Raffensperger tracks the dynastic marriages of the Volodimerovici, the ruling family of Rus. Using a modern scholarly approach and broad range of primary sources, he delivers a fully realized picture of the Volodimerovici from the tenth through twelfth centuries and the first comprehensive, scholarly treatment of the subject in English.

This book explores the factors that led to the largely peaceful integration of Crimea into Ukraine and places the situation in the larger context of conflict-prevention studies, explaining this critical case in which conflict did not erupt despite a structural predisposition to ethnic, regional, and even international enmity.

In this sweeping and synthesizing work, Professor Omeljan Pritsak charts the influence of Western European, Arabic, Khazaro-Bulgarian, and, later, Byzantine metrological and numismatic systems on the development of these systems in Kyivan Rus'.

Elaborate icons and murals of the Last Judgment adorned many Eastern-rite churches in medieval and early modern Ukraine. The largest compilation of its kind, The World to Come includes more than eighty such images from present-day Ukraine, eastern Slovakia, and southeastern Poland, with most printed in full color.

This controversial and groundbreaking book revisits the origins of one of the most beloved works of East Slavic literature, Slovo o polku Igoreve (The Igor' Tale). Keenan argues that the text is not an authentic 12th-century document but rather was created by the Bohemian scholar Josef Dobrovsky in the late 18th century.

Stefan Pugh analyzes the Ruthenian language use of one of its most outstanding practitioners, Meletij Smotryc'kyj (ca. 1578-1633): polemicist, cleric, and scholar. This study will provide the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship on the Ruthenian language.

This volume contains papers presented at the Third Quinquennial Conference on Ukrainian Economics. It contains 14 essays dealing with the one thousand years of Ukrainian economic history prior to World War I. The contributions are divided into three parts, covering the periods of Kievan Rus', the 16th and 17th centuries, and the 19th century.

As part of his personal archive, Krawciw's maps were bequeathed to Harvard University upon his death in 1975. This book serves as both a catalog of his collection and a description of how the maps he collected serve as an invaluable source for Ukraine's history and a symbol of Ukrainian national identity.

Leonard Friesen presents a study of the transformation of New Russia--the region north of the Black and Azov seas--from its conquest by the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth century to the revolutionary tumult of 1905. Friesen focuses on the multifaceted relations between the region's peasants, European colonists, and Russian estate owners.