Myroslav Shkandrij
Biographic Data
| ID | 514492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myroslav Shkandrij |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myroslav |
| FAMILY NAME | Shkandrij |
| SIGNATURE | SHKANDRIJ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Challenging the “Nationalist” Moniker: Ukraine’s Narrative, Russia and the West
This Rapid Communication asks why so much attention was paid to Ukrainian state- and nation-building as negative phenomena and so little to the jingoist nationalism in Russia in the lead-up to the invasion of Ukraine. The question has become all the more urgent after 24 February 2022. The war has confirmed the deep commitment of Ukraine’s citizens to their nation and state, and to a history that has been obscured by geopolitical grandstanding in …
Documenting the famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine: Archival collections on the Holodomor outside the former Soviet Union
A conference held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton on 1–2 November 2019 brought together Holodomor researchers from around the world who shared their knowledge of little-examined themes and unexplored archives. Speakers reported on government and community archives and the light these cast on foreign policy decisions, the course of the famine, and the famine’s long-term consequences
Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917–2017: History’s Flashpoints and Today’s Memory Wars
Jews in Ukrainian Literature: Representation and Identity
This pioneering study is the first to show how Jews have been seen through modern Ukrainian literature. Myroslav Shkandrij uses evidence found within that literature to challenge the established view that the Ukrainian and Jewish communities were antagonistic toward one another and interacted only when compelled to do so by economic necessity. Jews in Ukrainian Literature synthesizes recent research in the West and in the Ukraine, where access to…
Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956
Both celebrated and condemned, Ukrainian nationalism is one of the most controversial and vibrant topics in contemporary discussions of Eastern Europe. Perhaps today there is no more divisive and heatedly argued topic in Eastern European studies than the activities in the 1930s and 1940s of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). This book examines the legacy of the OUN and is the first to consider the movement’s literature alongside it…
A roundtable on Myroslav Shkandrij’s Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929–1956
KEYWORDS: Canadian Association of Slavists Taylor and Francis Book PrizeMyroslav ShkandrijUkrainian nationalism
Dokia Humenna’s Depiction of the Second World War and the OUN in Khreshchatyi iar: How Readers Responded
When Dokia Humenna’s novel depicting the Second World War, Khreshchatyi iar (Khreshchatyk Ravine), was published in New York in 1956, it created a controversy. Readers were particularly interested in the way activists of the OUN were portrayed. This article analyzes readers’ comments and Humenna’s responses, which are today stored in the archives of the Ukrainian Academy of Science in New York. The novel is based on a diary Humenna kept during th…
Olesya Khromeychuk, “Undetermined” Ukrainians. Post-war narratives of the Waffen SS “Galicia” Division
A number of framing narratives have played a crucial role in discussions of the Waffen SS “Galicia” Division, which by the end of the Second World War had been renamed the 1st Ukrainian Division of
The Ukrainian reading public in the 1920s: Real, implied, and ideal
The reading public was discussed in the Soviet Ukrainian press during the 1920s, at a time when the drive to eliminate illiteracy and implement Ukrainization was scoring increasing successes. Sociological studies of the “real” reader indicated strong preferences for pre-revolutionary authors and foreign writers in translation. Under pressure from Moscow, in the late 1920s Mykola Skrypnyk, the Commissar for Education, and the literary theorist Kos…
Serhiy Zhadan, Voroshilovgrad
Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956
National democracy, the OUN, and Dontsovism: Three ideological currents in Ukrainian Nationalism of the 1930s–40s and their shared myth-system
The ideology of Ukrainian nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s was a contested arena in which three dominant currents fought for hegemony: the national democrats grouped around the UNDO party, the authoritarian nationalists who supported the OUN movement, and the more extreme brand of authoritarianism espoused by the publicist Dmytro Dontsov. The three currents can be distinguished by analyzing both ideological writings and the myth-system that und…
The Carpatho-Ukrainian Episode of 1938-39: Canadian and International Ramifications
The article examines Canadian Press reports of the Carpatho-Ukrainian autonomous state that existed from November 1938 until March 1939. It describes how Western opinion, including Canadian, reacted to the new state, and how fears that Hitler was about to create a "Greater Ukraine" internationalized the issue of Carpatho-Ukraine, which some feared would be the first step in Germany's destabilization of the Soviet Union. The state's brief existenc…
Breaking Taboos: The Holodomor and the Holocaust in Ukrainian–Jewish Relations
Lidia Stefanowska. Mission Impossible: MUR i odrodzenie ukraińskiego w obozach dla uchodżców na terytorium Niemiec 1945―1948
Lidia Stefanowska. Mission Impossible: MUR i odrodzenie ukraińskiego w obozach dla uchodżców na terytorium Niemiec 1945―1948. [ Mission Impossible: MUR and the Ukrainian Renaissance in Refugee Camps on German Territory 1945―1948.] Warsaw: Uniwersytet Warszawski, Katedra Ukrainistyki, 2013. Paper
The secret police and the campaign against Galicians in Soviet Ukraine, 1929–1934
In 1929–1934 Galician intellectuals who emigrated to Soviet Ukraine from abroad were subject to mass repression. This article demonstrates how the party and the Soviet secret police discredited and eliminated this intelligentsia. Leading party officials perceived Galicians as possessing a strong sense of national identity and internal unity, and therefore an obstacle to plans for homogenizing Soviet Ukraine. The research draws on Ukrainian period…
The Soviet Regime’s National Operations in Ukraine, 1929–1934
This article makes use of documents from secret police archives to show that the Soviet secret police in Ukraine, the GPU (State Political Administration— Gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie), together with the centre in Moscow, played a crucial role in the national operations of 1929–1934. These documents contradict the views of historians who argue that the regime’s key power centres—Moscow and the secret police—were sincere in promoting U…
Ukrainianization, terror and famine: Coverage in Lviv's Dilo and the nationalist press of the 1930s
This article looks at the press coverage of Ukrainianization, the Soviet terror, and the famine (Holodomor), particularly in the years 1932–33, focusing on the largest Ukrainian daily outside Soviet Ukraine, the Lviv Dilo. It compares this coverage to the reporting in the press of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). It argues that these two years were a turning point in political attitudes. Galician Ukrainians turned away from the C…
The Shifting Object of Desire: The Poetry of Oleksandr Irvanets
Oleksandr Irvanets produced some of his best known works shortly after Ukraine's declaration of independence in 1991. The writer's irreverent, ironic, and humorous reworking of the Ukrainian self-image is analyzed. Using the writings of Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Lacan, the author argues that the poems surprise the reader by dislocating the object of desire from its expected, “traditional,” place, and relocating it in another, wholly unexpected, on…
A Change of Heart: Iurii Klen’s “Adventures of the Archangel Raphael”
Iurii Klen, one of the leading Ukrainian writers of the thirties and forties, produced perhaps his best short story “Pryhody Arkhanhela Rafaila” [Adventures of the Archangel Raphael, 1948] in the last year of his life. This article is an analysis in the light of a discourse within modernism concerning tradition, and argues that it is a key to understanding the writer’s evolution. Although Klen rejected the militant Bolshevik avant-garde, during h…
Steppe Son: David Burliuk's Identity
Reinterpreting Malevich: Biography, Autobiography, Art
Russia and Ukraine: Literature and Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times
Concepts of civilizational superiority and redemptive assimilation, widely held among nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals, helped to form stereotypes of Ukraine and Ukrainians in travel writings, textbooks, and historical fiction, stereotypes that have been reactivated in ensuing decades. Both Russian and Ukrainian writers have explored the politics of identity in the post-Soviet period, but while the canon of Russian imperial thought is wel…
Avant-gardist versus Neoclassicist: Viktor Domontovych’s Early Novels
Viktor Petrov graduated from the University of Kyiv in 1918 and became a prominent scholar in the Ukrainian Academy of Arts created by the Ukrainian National Republic and subsequently taken over by the Soviet regime. For the next twenty years he filled many important positions in the Academy, among them secretary of the Historical Dictionary Commission and director of the Ethnographic Commission. Until he stopped publishing in the thirties, he wa…
Modernists, Marxists and the Nation: The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s
The secret police and the campaign against Galicians in Soviet Ukraine, 1929–1934
In 1929–1934 Galician intellectuals who emigrated to Soviet Ukraine from abroad were subject to mass repression. This article demonstrates how the party and the Soviet secret police discredited and eliminated this intelligentsia. Leading party officials perceived Galicians as possessing a strong sense of national identity and internal unity, and therefore an obstacle to plans for homogenizing Soviet Ukraine. The research draws on Ukrainian period…
The Soviet Regime’s National Operations in Ukraine, 1929–1934
This article makes use of documents from secret police archives to show that the Soviet secret police in Ukraine, the GPU (State Political Administration— Gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie), together with the centre in Moscow, played a crucial role in the national operations of 1929–1934. These documents contradict the views of historians who argue that the regime’s key power centres—Moscow and the secret police—were sincere in promoting U…
Ukrainianization, terror and famine: Coverage in Lviv's Dilo and the nationalist press of the 1930s
This article looks at the press coverage of Ukrainianization, the Soviet terror, and the famine (Holodomor), particularly in the years 1932–33, focusing on the largest Ukrainian daily outside Soviet Ukraine, the Lviv Dilo. It compares this coverage to the reporting in the press of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). It argues that these two years were a turning point in political attitudes. Galician Ukrainians turned away from the C…
Modernists, Marxists, and the Nation. The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s
The Ukrainian reading public in the 1920s: Real, implied, and ideal
The reading public was discussed in the Soviet Ukrainian press during the 1920s, at a time when the drive to eliminate illiteracy and implement Ukrainization was scoring increasing successes. Sociological studies of the “real” reader indicated strong preferences for pre-revolutionary authors and foreign writers in translation. Under pressure from Moscow, in the late 1920s Mykola Skrypnyk, the Commissar for Education, and the literary theorist Kos…
National democracy, the OUN, and Dontsovism: Three ideological currents in Ukrainian Nationalism of the 1930s–40s and their shared myth-system
The ideology of Ukrainian nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s was a contested arena in which three dominant currents fought for hegemony: the national democrats grouped around the UNDO party, the authoritarian nationalists who supported the OUN movement, and the more extreme brand of authoritarianism espoused by the publicist Dmytro Dontsov. The three currents can be distinguished by analyzing both ideological writings and the myth-system that und…
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Modernists, Marxists and the Nation: The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s
Modernists, Marxists, and the Nation. The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s
Avant-gardist versus Neoclassicist: Viktor Domontovych’s Early Novels
Viktor Petrov graduated from the University of Kyiv in 1918 and became a prominent scholar in the Ukrainian Academy of Arts created by the Ukrainian National Republic and subsequently taken over by the Soviet regime. For the next twenty years he filled many important positions in the Academy, among them secretary of the Historical Dictionary Commission and director of the Ethnographic Commission. Until he stopped publishing in the thirties, he wa…
Reinterpreting Malevich: Biography, Autobiography, Art
Russia and Ukraine: Literature and Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times
Concepts of civilizational superiority and redemptive assimilation, widely held among nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals, helped to form stereotypes of Ukraine and Ukrainians in travel writings, textbooks, and historical fiction, stereotypes that have been reactivated in ensuing decades. Both Russian and Ukrainian writers have explored the politics of identity in the post-Soviet period, but while the canon of Russian imperial thought is wel…
Steppe Son: David Burliuk's Identity
A Change of Heart: Iurii Klen’s “Adventures of the Archangel Raphael”
Iurii Klen, one of the leading Ukrainian writers of the thirties and forties, produced perhaps his best short story “Pryhody Arkhanhela Rafaila” [Adventures of the Archangel Raphael, 1948] in the last year of his life. This article is an analysis in the light of a discourse within modernism concerning tradition, and argues that it is a key to understanding the writer’s evolution. Although Klen rejected the militant Bolshevik avant-garde, during h…
The Shifting Object of Desire: The Poetry of Oleksandr Irvanets
Oleksandr Irvanets produced some of his best known works shortly after Ukraine's declaration of independence in 1991. The writer's irreverent, ironic, and humorous reworking of the Ukrainian self-image is analyzed. Using the writings of Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Lacan, the author argues that the poems surprise the reader by dislocating the object of desire from its expected, “traditional,” place, and relocating it in another, wholly unexpected, on…
Ukrainianization, terror and famine: Coverage in Lviv's Dilo and the nationalist press of the 1930s
This article looks at the press coverage of Ukrainianization, the Soviet terror, and the famine (Holodomor), particularly in the years 1932–33, focusing on the largest Ukrainian daily outside Soviet Ukraine, the Lviv Dilo. It compares this coverage to the reporting in the press of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). It argues that these two years were a turning point in political attitudes. Galician Ukrainians turned away from the C…
The Soviet Regime’s National Operations in Ukraine, 1929–1934
This article makes use of documents from secret police archives to show that the Soviet secret police in Ukraine, the GPU (State Political Administration— Gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie), together with the centre in Moscow, played a crucial role in the national operations of 1929–1934. These documents contradict the views of historians who argue that the regime’s key power centres—Moscow and the secret police—were sincere in promoting U…
Breaking Taboos: The Holodomor and the Holocaust in Ukrainian–Jewish Relations
Lidia Stefanowska. Mission Impossible: MUR i odrodzenie ukraińskiego w obozach dla uchodżców na terytorium Niemiec 1945―1948
Lidia Stefanowska. Mission Impossible: MUR i odrodzenie ukraińskiego w obozach dla uchodżców na terytorium Niemiec 1945―1948. [ Mission Impossible: MUR and the Ukrainian Renaissance in Refugee Camps on German Territory 1945―1948.] Warsaw: Uniwersytet Warszawski, Katedra Ukrainistyki, 2013. Paper
The secret police and the campaign against Galicians in Soviet Ukraine, 1929–1934
In 1929–1934 Galician intellectuals who emigrated to Soviet Ukraine from abroad were subject to mass repression. This article demonstrates how the party and the Soviet secret police discredited and eliminated this intelligentsia. Leading party officials perceived Galicians as possessing a strong sense of national identity and internal unity, and therefore an obstacle to plans for homogenizing Soviet Ukraine. The research draws on Ukrainian period…
Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956
National democracy, the OUN, and Dontsovism: Three ideological currents in Ukrainian Nationalism of the 1930s–40s and their shared myth-system
The ideology of Ukrainian nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s was a contested arena in which three dominant currents fought for hegemony: the national democrats grouped around the UNDO party, the authoritarian nationalists who supported the OUN movement, and the more extreme brand of authoritarianism espoused by the publicist Dmytro Dontsov. The three currents can be distinguished by analyzing both ideological writings and the myth-system that und…
The Carpatho-Ukrainian Episode of 1938-39: Canadian and International Ramifications
The article examines Canadian Press reports of the Carpatho-Ukrainian autonomous state that existed from November 1938 until March 1939. It describes how Western opinion, including Canadian, reacted to the new state, and how fears that Hitler was about to create a "Greater Ukraine" internationalized the issue of Carpatho-Ukraine, which some feared would be the first step in Germany's destabilization of the Soviet Union. The state's brief existenc…
Dokia Humenna’s Depiction of the Second World War and the OUN in Khreshchatyi iar: How Readers Responded
When Dokia Humenna’s novel depicting the Second World War, Khreshchatyi iar (Khreshchatyk Ravine), was published in New York in 1956, it created a controversy. Readers were particularly interested in the way activists of the OUN were portrayed. This article analyzes readers’ comments and Humenna’s responses, which are today stored in the archives of the Ukrainian Academy of Science in New York. The novel is based on a diary Humenna kept during th…
Olesya Khromeychuk, “Undetermined” Ukrainians. Post-war narratives of the Waffen SS “Galicia” Division
A number of framing narratives have played a crucial role in discussions of the Waffen SS “Galicia” Division, which by the end of the Second World War had been renamed the 1st Ukrainian Division of
The Ukrainian reading public in the 1920s: Real, implied, and ideal
The reading public was discussed in the Soviet Ukrainian press during the 1920s, at a time when the drive to eliminate illiteracy and implement Ukrainization was scoring increasing successes. Sociological studies of the “real” reader indicated strong preferences for pre-revolutionary authors and foreign writers in translation. Under pressure from Moscow, in the late 1920s Mykola Skrypnyk, the Commissar for Education, and the literary theorist Kos…
Serhiy Zhadan, Voroshilovgrad
Jews in Ukrainian Literature: Representation and Identity
This pioneering study is the first to show how Jews have been seen through modern Ukrainian literature. Myroslav Shkandrij uses evidence found within that literature to challenge the established view that the Ukrainian and Jewish communities were antagonistic toward one another and interacted only when compelled to do so by economic necessity. Jews in Ukrainian Literature synthesizes recent research in the West and in the Ukraine, where access to…
Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956
Both celebrated and condemned, Ukrainian nationalism is one of the most controversial and vibrant topics in contemporary discussions of Eastern Europe. Perhaps today there is no more divisive and heatedly argued topic in Eastern European studies than the activities in the 1930s and 1940s of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). This book examines the legacy of the OUN and is the first to consider the movement’s literature alongside it…
A roundtable on Myroslav Shkandrij’s Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929–1956
KEYWORDS: Canadian Association of Slavists Taylor and Francis Book PrizeMyroslav ShkandrijUkrainian nationalism
Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917–2017: History’s Flashpoints and Today’s Memory Wars
Political science (22 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Ukrainian (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · Art (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Literature (10 works)