Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies and
the Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of
Ottawa. His publications on Ukrainian politics include Cleft
Countries: Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-Soviet
Ukraine and Moldova.
Zenon E. Kohut is director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian
Studies at the University of Alberta. His many works on early
modern Ukraine, historiography, and the development of Ukrainian
identity include Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy:
Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760s-1830s and Making
Ukraine: Studies on Political Culture, Historical Narrative, and
Identity.
Bohdan Y. Nebesio associate professor of film studies in the
Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock
University. His publications focus on the films of Alexander
Dovzhenko, East European cinema, and the history of film
theory.
Myroslav Yurkevich is senior editor of the Canadian Institute of
Ukrainian Studies Press and has participated in the CIUS project to
translate Mykhailo Hrushevsky's ten-volume History of Ukraine-Rus'
since its inception.
This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Ukraine has
been eight years in the making. Katchanovski (Univ. of Ottawa)
updates the first edition, published just after the Orange
Revolution, to include events from this period. This new edition
expands articles on people, places, and events of post-1991
Ukraine. Aside from these much-needed updates, the original text by
the highly qualified team of Zenon Kohut (Univ. of Alberta), Bohdan
Nebesio (Brock Univ.), and Myroslav Yurkevich (Canadian Institute
of Ukrainian Studies Press) is mostly intact. The 700-plus entries
are brief, but provide basic definitions and indicate the subjects'
relevance to Ukrainian history. The excellent supplemental material
includes maps, a list of abbreviations, a detailed but succinct
chronology, an extensive bibliography, and a series of appendixes
on post-1991 Ukraine (new to this edition). Boldface type indicates
that a concept is mentioned elsewhere in the text, but sparse
cross-referencing may make finding some topics confusing. For
example, some topics often referred to by their Ukrainian
names—Holodomor, Batkyvshchina, OUN (Organization of Ukrainian
Nationalists)—are listed only under English headings. This
dictionary will prove useful to a wide range of scholars interested
in eastern Europe, European history, and modern European politics.
Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through
researchers/faculty; general readers.
*CHOICE*
This is the 2d edition of this work on Ukrainian history in
English. It has more than 725 entries that cover biographies,
places, historical events, institutions, economics, and social and
cultural aspects of Ukraine. The book has a list of acronyms and
abbreviations, nine maps, a chronology, and an introduction that
summarizes the history of Ukraine. Then it goes into the entries,
which are in the traditional A-to-Z format. The entries vary in
length. Cross-references are indicated by having the topic or term
in bold print. The authors use the modified Library of Congress
system to transliterate Ukrainian and other East Slavic words and
names. The authors are associated with the Canadian Institute of
Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the University of Alberta. The book
ends with an extensive bibliography that has its own introduction.
The bibliography is subdivided into various subjects. Books,
articles, and Internet sites are included. . . .This is a great
one-volume reference on Ukrainian history that belongs in academic
and larger public libraries with a Ukrainian or Eastern European
reference section.
*American Reference Books Annual*
Researchers, PhD students, journalists and other readers interested
in Ukraine’s history will find this comprehensive volume a very
useful resource. Contemporary events in Ukraine highlight the value
of this volume of reference to every academic library.
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Very topical for 2014 are the colorful biographies of Ukrainian
oligarchs, whose stories of gaining incredible wealth often look
like ready-made material for Hollywood thrillers. . . .The special
article about corruption and its methods widens our understanding
of the causes of the recent Ukrainian Revolution. The dictionary is
so well-researched that it is difficult to find anything absolutely
essential missing from it. From the first article. . . .to the last
one about Zviahilsky, Yukhym, we are dealing with the high-quality
product of careful academic research by four distinguished
scholars. . . .Researchers, PhD students, journalists and other
readers interested in Ukraine’s history will find this
comprehensive volume a very useful resource. Contemporary events in
Ukraine highlight the value of this volume of reference to every
academic library.
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