MA Reading List: UKRAINIAN TRACK

Required texts:

James H. Bater, Russia and the Post-Soviet Scene: A Geographical Perspective. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Dmytro Chyzhevsky, A History of Ukrainian Literature from the 11th to the End of the 19th Centuries. 2d ed. New York: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1997.

Robert Conquest, Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Paul D'Anieri, Robert Kravchuk, and Taras Kuzio, eds. Politics and Society in Ukraine. Boulder: Westview, 1999.

Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

David D. Laitin, Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,1998.

Zhores Medvedev, The Legacy Of Chernobyl. New York: Norton, 1990.

Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church, 2nd ed. New York: Penguin,1993.

Andrew Wilson, Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Kataryna Wolczuk, The Moulding of Ukraine: The Constitutional Politics of State Formation. Budapest: Central European University, 2001.

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Sherman W. Garnett, Keystone in the Arch: Ukraine in the Emerging Security Environment of Central and Eastern Europe. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1997.

William E. Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Primary Texts: [Return to top]

Ivan Franko, Selections: Poems and Stories.
Lenin, State and Revolution.
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Taras Shevchenko, Kobzar' and Zapovit'.
Lesya Ukrainka, Selections.

Recommended:

History [Return to top]

John Armstrong, Ukrainian Nationalism. 3d ed. Englewood, NJ: Ukrainian Academic Press,1989.

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State, 1917-1930. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1991.

Jan T. Gross, Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Hiroaki Kuromiya. Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian- Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Paul Robert Magosci, A History of Ukraine. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.

Terry Dean Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Includes extensive discussion of Soviet policy toward Ukraine.

Philipp Ther and Ana Siljak, eds. Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing In East-Central Europe, 1944-1948. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2000.

Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. A study of Soviet rule in a town in western Ukraine in the post-war period.

Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Literature, Culture, and the Arts [Return to top]

Ralph Lindheim and George S.N. Luckyj, eds. Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

George S.N. Luckyj, Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934. Durham: Duke University Press, 1990.

__________, ed. Shevchenko and the Critics, 1861-1980. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1980.

Thomas M. Prymak, Mykhailo Hrushevsky: The Politics of National Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.

__________, Mykola Kostomarov: A Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

Politics and Society [Return to top]

Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Premature Partnership Foreign Affairs 73, no. 2 (March 1994): 67-82.

Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Taras Kuzio, Ukraine under Kuchma: Political Reform, Economic Transformation and Security Policy in Independent Ukraine. New York: Penguin, 1997.

Pal Kalsto, Political Construction Sites: Nation-Building in Russia and the Post-Soviet States Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.

Alexander Motyl, Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993.

John Edwin Mroz and Oleksandr Pavliuk, Ukraine: Europe's Linchpin in Foreign Affairs 75, no. 3 (June 1996): 52-62.

Catherine Wanner, Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

Religion and Philosophy [Return to top]

Bohdan R. Bociurkiw, The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State, 1939-1950. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1996.

Metropolitan Ilarion, The Ukrainian Church: Outline of the History of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Winnipeg: Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, 1986.

Neil Harding, Leninism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

Alfred G. Meyer, Leninism. 1957; reprint, Boulder: Westview, 1986.

Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Geography and Economics [Return to top]

Robert W. Campbell, The Failure of Soviet Economic Planning. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Paul D'Anieri, Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.

I.S. Koropeckyj, ed. Ukrainian Economic History: Interpretive Essays. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1991.

I.S. Koropeckyj, ed. The Ukrainian Economy: Achievements, Problems, Challenges. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1992.

Paul Lydolph, Geography of the USSR, 5th ed. Elkhart Lake, Wisc.: Misty Valley Pub., 1978.

Alec Nove, An Economic History of the USSR, 1917-1991. 3rd ed. New York: Penguin, 1992.

David Turnock, ed. East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Environment and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Janine Wedel. Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe, 1989-1998. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.