John-Paul Himka

Religion and nationality in Western Ukraine : the Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867-1900

Using Soviet archival materials declassified in the 1980s, John-Paul Himka examines a period during which the Greek Catholic church in Galicia was involved in a protracted, and at times bitter, struggle to maintain its distinctive, historically developed rites and customs. He focuses on the way differing concepts of Rutherian nationality affected the perception and course of church affairs while showing the influence of local ecclesiastical matters on the development and acceptance of these divergent concepts of nationality. The implications and complications of the Galician imbroglio are engagingly explained in this latest addition to Himkas work on nationality in late nineteenth-century Galicia. His analysis of the relationship between the church and the national movement is a valuable addition to the study of religion and national movements in East Europe and beyond.

Debates in Ukraine over nationalist involvement in the Holocaust, 2004–2008

The article concerns debate about the memory of the Holocaust in Ukraine. It covers the period 2004–2008.

The History of the "Proletariat": The Emergence of Marxism in the Kingdom of Poland, 1870-1887

The study focuses on the history of the Proletariat (1882-1886), an underground party of Polish intelligentsia and workers known as the Wielki or Great Proletariat to distinguish it from later, less significant groups of the same name. This is done in the context of the national history of Poles in the Kingdom of Poland in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Olesya Khromeychuk. ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians: Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division.

Olesya Khromeychuk. ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians: Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division. Nationalisms across the Globe 11. Eds. Tomasz Kamusella and Krzysztof Jaskulowski. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013. xix, 197 pp. Foreword by David R. Marples. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. SFR 60, paper.

Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past (review)

This is a readable, stimulating collection of articles on issues relating to the intersection of Ukrainian and Russian historiography. Of the 16 chapters, 13 had been previously published, but they have been modified for the present volume, and they fit together well. Themes on which Serhii Plokhy has previously published monographs figure prominently in this collection, especially Cossacks (chapters 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 15), but also the Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky (chapters 5 and 6) and iconography (chapter 4). The chapters are insightful essays based on published sources rather than monographic articles based on archival research. The last essay in the book, written especially for this volume, is entitled “Beyond Nationality.” It analyses the pluses and minuses of writing in the national paradigm, particularly with reference to Ukrainian history. Not only does it sort out what national history captures and misses, but it explains how it positions practitioners in contemporary Ukraine. “Writing traditional national history today means contributing to the isolationism and provincialism of East European historiography,” while “younger historians want to be part of the larger European and world community of historians” (p. 284). Plokhy also feels that the multi-ethnic, territorial approach is little better, since it too “is liable to lapse into primordialism, a teleological approach, and the marginalization of non-ethnic groups and institutions” (p. 293). He himself leans towards “transnational history,” which operates with larger zones and larger polities. Most importantly, he sees Ukraine as a borderland “not only between Eastern and Central Europe but also between Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the Mediterranean world, and the Eurasian steppelands” (p. 301). I understand this last essay to be a reckoning with or conceptualization of directions his work had been taking earlier, but perhaps more intuitively. Indeed, there is much in the previous 15 essays that is transnational. The penultimate chapter is in fact entitled “Crossing National Boundaries.” This essay argues the utility of studying Ukrainian and Russian Cossacks also within the framework of Cossackdom and not just within the frameworks of Russian or Ukrainian history. Chapter 12 on “Remembering Yalta” is also particularly transnational. It concentrates on the commemoration and lack of commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Yalta Conference in 1945, but it examines the Comptes rendus / Book Reviews 509

Two Important Studies of Galicia

YAROSLAV HRYTSAK is the director of the Institute for Historical Research at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and visiting associate professor at the Central European University in Budapest. One of Ukraine’s most prominent liberal intellectuals, Hrytsak writes historical essays that often enliven the pages of Krytyka, Ukraine’s equivalent of The New York Review of Books. The monograph under review is entitled, in translation, “A Prophet in His Own Fatherland: Franko and His Society (1856– 1886).” This is not Hrytsak’s first book about the poet and polymath Ivan Franko, but it is certainly his best, betraying many years of reading and reflecting, thinking, and rethinking. In 2007 Hrytsak’s new biography of Franko won the “Best Ukrainian Book” prize in the nonfiction category in the competition sponsored by the weekly Korespondent. Very readable, this new biography is full of fresh perspectives. Hrytsak states in his introduction that “in the general hierarchy of scholarly values I place the discovery of new methods of conceptualization of already known facts above the collection of new facts” (20). For his new biography on Franko, Hrytsak chose an interesting illustration for every chapter and then interpreted the illustration in the text. This device is but a characteristic creative moment of Hrytsak’s style. Kai Struve, a somewhat younger scholar, was a research fellow at the Herder-Institut in Marburg from 1998 to 2002; and since that time, he has been a research fellow at the SimonDubnow-Institut in Leipzig. Struve has been publishing on Austrian Galicia since the mid1990s, but Bauern und Nation in Galizien is his first monograph. Very substantial to start with, Struve’s monograph is less essayistic than Hrytsak’s and hence does not provide the same amount of pure reading pleasure, but it is more comprehensively researched and has better buttressed arguments. Struve has worked in manuscript and archival collections in Lviv, Warsaw, and Wroclaw, but his most important primary sources are Galician periodicals. In addition to reading especially closely the major Polish and Ruthenian periodicals produced for the peasantry, Struve has also read and engaged hundreds of