East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies
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From the Editor-in-Chief
Full text linkWelcome to the first issue of the new online academic journal, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (EWJUS). I am proud to be associated with this historic moment and I hope to win the trust and following of my colleagues, whom I invite to contribute to future issues.
Lviv and Chernivtsi: Two Memory Cultures at the Western Ukrainian Borderland
Full text linkDespite geographical proximity and comparable historical development since the fall of the Soviet Union, Lviv and Chernivtsi betray different approaches to commemorating the past. This might point to the existence of different cultures of memory that sustain a narrative about acceptance or rejection of ethnic diversity. But the cultures of memory in the cities also have common characteristic, namely, contemporary urbanites form their attitudes towards the past not through personal experience and family transmission of past memories but through prosthetic memory, which relies on hearsay, media, literature, popular culture and the arts. When deliberate choice comes to the fore in building various identity projects, the work of stitching together contradictory historical representations is guided not so much by path-dependent logic of collective memory as by present-day expediency and power games of different mnemonic actors. Therefore, this paper argues that the most observable trend in the cultures of memory in Lviv and Chernivtsi is pillarization, i.e., an agreement among external and internal memory entrepreneurs and marketeers that each population group is the custodian of its “own” heritage. Nevertheless, ultimately the condition of heritage envisioned in the two cities seems to be an assimilationist “incorporation-to-the-core” model, where the core consists of various versions of the Ukrainian national heritage
John Lawrence Reynolds. Leaving Home: The Remarkable Life of Peter Jacyk.
Full text linkJohn Lawrence Reynolds. Leaving Home: The Remarkable Life of Peter Jacyk. Vancouver: Figure 1 Publishing Inc., 2013. 287 pp. Appendix. Index. $29.95, cloth.
Serhii Plokhy, ed. Poltava 1709: The Battle and the Myth.
Full text linkSerhii Plokhy, ed. Poltava 1709: The Battle and the Myth. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. xxv, 703 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Index. $29.95, paper.
The Current Situation and Potential Responses to Movements against Gender Equality in Ukraine
Full text linkoai:jrnl_ewjus:article/3Gender equality in Ukraine is facing resistance. Although this backlash is not uniquely Ukrainian, it can have profound consequences for Ukraine’s efforts to integrate into the European Union. This paper reveals various aspects of a movement called “Stop Gender,” examining letter writing campaigns, political lobbying and an anti-gender equality blog. It assesses the key arguments of the movement, considers their impact on gender mainstreaming efforts, and investigates what action might be taken in the face of growing anti-gender equality sentiments across all levels of Ukrainian society
Maria Popova. Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine.
Full text linkMaria Popova. Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 197 pp. Cloth.
Missed Opportunities: Early Attempts to Obtain Bukovynian Orthodox Clergy for the Ukrainian Pioneers of Alberta
Full text linkImmigration from the Austro-Hungarian crown land of Bukovyna to the Canadian West was initiated in 1897-98, continuing thereafter until the outbreak of the First World War. Comprised mostly of ethnic Ukrainians, but including a small number of Romanians and families of mixed marriages, the peasant farmers from Bukovyna took out homesteads alongside the fledgling colony established northeast of Edmonton a few years earlier by Ukrainians from Galicia. An immediate concern of the settlers was the lack of any priests to serve their pastoral needs and to provide leadership for the communities that they were struggling to establish in challenging circumstances in the New World. Although itinerant priests dispatched by the Russian Orthodox mission based in San Francisco began visiting the Ukrainian settlers in Alberta beginning in July 1897 at the request of Russophiles among the first Galician homesteaders, the new arrivals from Bukovyna found them to be less than satisfactory because of linguistic and cultural differences. Almost immediately, the Bukovynians began appealing to the Orthodox Church in Bukovyna for clergy who could speak the Bukovynian Ukrainian dialect and “Wallachian,” so that they would not be dependent on priests from the Russian Mission. Despite numerous requests sent to the Metropolitanate of Bukovyna over the course of the next decade and a half—not only from Alberta, but also from other Bukovynian colonies in Canada—no Ukrainian clergy were ever assigned by church officials in Chernivtsi to serve the Orthodox faithful overseas. Drawing on archival sources, press reports and secondary sources, this article reconstructs these efforts by the pioneer era Ukrainian settlers from Bukovyna to obtain Orthodox clergy from their native land, at the same time suggesting reasons for their failure