BOOK LAUNCH | RHONDA L. HINTHER | "PEROGIES AND POLITICS: CANADA’S UKRAINIAN LEFT, 1891–1991"

DATE: THURSDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2018<br>TIME: 7:00 P.M.<br>VENUE: UKRAINIAN CENTRE, 11018 97 STREET, EDMONTON<br>

13 November 2018

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 Canadian 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.

 

Rhonda L. Hinther is an associate professor of history at Brandon University. Her book Perogies and Politics: Canada’s Ukrainian Left, 1891–1991 was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2018. She is also a co-editor, with Jim Mochoruk, of Re-imagining Ukrainian-Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity (University of Toronto Press, 2011). Dr. Hinther is presently co-editing, also with Mochoruk, a collection on the history of internment in Canada.