Program Publications

The initial research commitment of the Stasiuk Program was been the study of Ukrainian-Russian relations. The previous director, Dr. Zenon Kohut, initiated a three-year collaborative project, the "Ukrainian-Russian Encounter," involving the East European Institute of Cologne University in Germany and the Harriman Institute for Advanced Studies at Columbia University in New York. Its objective was to analyze relations between the Ukrainian and Russian nations and identities from a historical perspective.

More than 80 specialists in Ukrainian and Russian studies addressed specific questions in a series of four sessions that alternated between Cologne and New York. The project received financial support and international recognition through a $100,000 (U.S.) grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the U.S. and the Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

The proceedings of the fourth session, which was devoted to contemporary Ukrainian-Russian relations, have been published by the Harriman Institute as a special issue of the Harriman Review.

In 1992-93, the program launched a study of Ukrainians in Russia. Dr. Serge Cipko was hired as a research associate to study the substantial Ukrainian population in Russia, which numbers 17 million according to some estimates, and about which little is known. The results were published by CIUS Press in a research report, Ukrainians in Russia: A Bibliographic and Statistical Guide. A research grant was also awarded to Oleksander Hrushevsky, a Moscow analyst, to study the issue of Russians in Ukraine, a highly visible and vocal minority making up 22 per cent of the population.

The Stasiuk Program has supported the publication of Nuclear Energy and Security in the Former Soviet Union, a collection of papers delivered by international experts at the World Congress of Central and East European Studies at the University of Warsaw in August 1995. Edited by Dr. Marples and Dr. Marilyn J. Young of Florida State University, it appeared in 1997, published by Westview Press of Boulder, Colorado, a major publisher of books on the former Soviet Union.

The Archive on Twentieth-Century Ukraine, located at the Stasiuk Program offices, houses a collection of published and unpublished material from Ukraine, mostly from the late 1980s, documenting the rebirth and organization of the Ukrainian national movement. Most of the material was donated by visitors to and from Ukraine and some items, such as election pamphlets, bulletins of local Rukh affiliates and student club newspapers, are unique in the West. The archive has also obtained a collection of 2,000 photocopies of British Foreign Office documents on Ukraine and Ukrainians from 1917 to 1957. The collection touches on all aspects of the political and economic life of Ukrainians in Eastern Europe in the twentieth century.

A related study is Dr. Marples' new book entitled Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine, forthcoming in the fall of 2007 from the Central European University Press, Budapest and New York.