Ukrainians in Canada

Ukrainians in Canada
Author: Orest T. Martynowych
Publisher: CIUS Press
Total Pages: 706
Release: 1991-07-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780920862766

The history of Ukrainian immigration, settlement, and community-building in Canada.

Ukrainians in Canada: The Interwar Years

Ukrainians in Canada: The Interwar Years
Author: Orest T. Martynowych
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781894865425

Between 1925 and 1939 a second wave of Ukrainian immigration brought within its ranks many civically active and politicized newcomers to Canada. Their impact on the major Ukrainian religious institutions and secular mass organizations were particularly strong. Many of them followed political developments and religious controversies in their dismembered homeland and hosted emissaries of overseas political movements and regimes. One of the most active groups—the Ukrainian war veterans, who had participated in the struggle for Ukrainian independence (1917–21)—promoted an assertive brand of nationalism and expressed admiration for authoritarian regimes in Europe. The author considers the impact of the second wave of Ukrainian immigrants on the churches, on the emergence of new secular mass organizations, and on the response of pre-war immigrants to the challenge presented by the newcomers.

Re-imagining Ukrainian Canadians

Re-imagining Ukrainian Canadians
Author: Jim Mochoruk
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 144261062X

The Canadian Social History Series is devoted to in-depth studies of major themes in our history, exploring neglected areas in the day-to-day existence of Canadians. The emphasis of this innovative series is on increasing the general appreciation of our past and opening up new areas of study for students and scholars. The editor of the series is Gregory S. Kealey, Provost, Professor of History and Vice-President (Research), University of New Brunswick. A leading historian of the Canadian working class, Dr Kealey was the founding editor of Labour/Le Travail. Ukrainian immigrants to Canada have often been portrayed in history as sturdy pioneer farmers cultivating the virgin land of the Canadian west. The essays in this collection challenge this stereotype by examining the varied experiences of Ukrainian Canadians in their day-to-day roles as writers, intellectuals, national organizers, working-class wage earners, and inhabitants of cities and towns. Throughout, the contributors remain dedicated to promoting the study of ethnic, hyphenated histories as major currents in mainstream Canadian history. Topics explored include Ukrainian-Canadian radicalism, the consequences of the Cold War for Ukrainians both at home and abroad, the creation and maintenance of ethnic memories, and community discord embodied by pro-Nazis, Communists, and criminals. Re-Imagining Ukrainian Canadians uses new sources and non-traditional methods of analysis to answer unstudied and often controversial questions within the field. Collectively, the essays challenge the older, essentialist definition of what it means to be Ukrainian Canadian. Rhonda L. Hinther is the Western Canadian History curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Jim Mochoruk is a professor in the Department of History at the University of North Dakota.

Visible Symbols

Visible Symbols
Author: University of Alberta. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
Publisher: CIUS Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1984
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780920862278

Perogies and Politics

Perogies and Politics
Author: Rhonda L. Hinther
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487511167

In Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it. For twentieth-century leftist Ukrainians, culture and politics were inextricably linked. The interaction of Ukrainian socio-cultural identity with Marxist-Leninism resulted in one of the most dynamic national working-class movements Canada has ever known. The Ukrainian left’s success lay in its ability to meet the needs of and speak in meaningful, respectful, and empowering ways to its supporters’ experiences and interests as individuals and as members of a distinct immigrant working-class community. This offered to Ukrainians a radical social, cultural, and political alternative to the fledgling Ukrainian churches and right-wing Ukrainian nationalist movements. Hinther’s colourful and in-depth work reveals how left-wing Ukrainians were affected by changing social, economic, and political forces and how they in turn responded to and challenged these forces.

Searching for Place

Searching for Place
Author: Lubomyr Y. Luciuk
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802080882

Searching for Place represents a provocative contribution to the study of modern Canada and one of its most important communities."--BOOK JACKET.

In the World of Stalinist Crimes

In the World of Stalinist Crimes
Author: Robert Kuśnierz
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781894865579

This book is a study of the Stalinist terror campaign in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s, in particular for the period of 1934–38. This study is based on Polish diplomatic and military intelligence sources that have not hitherto been researched and analyzed. The author's unique contribution to the study of this period is its detailed analysis of the terror campaign against various national minorities in Ukraine (in particular, Poles); its descriptions of the fates of those Ukrainians who emigrated to Soviet Ukraine from Galicia (which was part of the interwar Polish state); and its analysis of the post-Holodomor period in the Ukrainian countryside where famine conditions lingered into 1934 and even 1935 (Kusnierz provides evidence of famine deaths and even cannibalism in 1934).

The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause

The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause
Author: Orest T. Martynowych
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2014-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0887554725

A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in New York City, he built a network of folk dance schools and produced musical spectacles to help Ukrainian immigrants sustain their identity. His feature-length Ukrainian language films made in the 1930s with Hollywood director Edgar G. Ulmer, the “king of ethnic and B movies,” were shown throughout North America. Orest T. Martynowych’s The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause is a fascinating portrait how culture can become a political tool in a diaspora community.

Scholars in Exile

Scholars in Exile
Author: Nadia Zavorotna
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: Czechoslovakia
ISBN: 9781487530204

"Throughout the 1920's and 30's Prague was the intellectual center of Ukrainian emigres in Europe, not least because of significant financial support from the Czech government and its first president, Tomas Gerrigue Masaryk for emigre students and intellectuals."--

Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes

Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes
Author: Trevor Erlacher
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674250931

The first English-language biography of Dmytro Dontsov, the “spiritual father” of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, this book contextualizes Dontsov’s works, activities, and identity formation diachronically, reconstructing the cultural, political, urban, and intellectual milieus within which he developed and disseminated his worldview.