OLEH PAVLYSHYN | The Western Ukrainian National Republic (1918-1923): State Building, Interethnic Relations, and the Struggle for International Recognition

DATE: TUESDAY, 6 NOVEMBER 2018 TIME: 7:00 P.M. VENUE: PEMBINA HALL 3-58, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

29 October 2018

*** Lecture will be given in Ukrainian ***

The Western Ukrainian National Republic (Ukrainian acronym: ZUNR) was formed as a result of the collapse of the Habsburg Empire and became an integral part of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-20. Its state-building process was based on the constitutional traditions of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. In spite of a lack of cadres, the ZUNR managed to ensure effective state functioning in important areas. The culmination of state building of the ZUNR was its union in 1919 with the Ukrainian National Republic in Kyiv. Among other topics, this lecture will address historiography, crisis phenomena, inter-ethnic relations, and civilian internment on both sides of the Ukrainian-Polish front.

Dr. Oleh Pavlyshyn is a specialist in the history of twentieth-century Ukraine. He lectures at the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Department of Modern History, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He is a co-editor of a newly published history of the Western Ukrainian National Republic (ZUNR) (2018), and author of an illustrated biography of ZUNR president Yevhen Petrushevych (2013), as well as a book about Lviv city and the surrounding region in 1918-23, during the ZUNR era (2008).