A Laboratory of Transnational History: Ukraine and Recent Ukrainian Historiography

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Contents Introduction: Georgiy Kasianov and Philipp Ther . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I. National versus Transnational History Georgiy Kasianov “Nationalized” History: Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Future…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Mark von Hagen Revisiting the Histories of Ukraine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Andreas Kappeler From an Ethnonational to a Multiethnic to a Transnational Ukrainian History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Philipp Ther The Transnational Paradigm of Historiography and its Potential for Ukrainian History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 II. Ukrainian History Rewritten Natalia Yakovenko Choice of Name versus Choice of Path: The Names of Ukrainian Territories from the Late Sixteenth to the Late Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Oleksiy Tolochko Fellows and Travelers: Thinking about Ukrainian History in the Early Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Alexei Miller and Oksana Ostapchuk The Latin and Cyrillic Alphabets in Ukrainian National Discourse and in the Language Policy of Empires. . . . . . . . . . . . 167 John-Paul Himka Victim Cinema. Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II—The Untold Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Yaroslav Hrytsak On the Relevance and Irrelevance of Nationalism in Contemporary Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Roman Szporluk The Making of Modern Ukraine: The Western Dimension. . . . . . 249 About the Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Index of Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Index of Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 vi Contents Note on Transliteration In the text of this book, the modified Library of Congress system is used to transliterate Ukrainian and Russian personal names and place-names. This system seeks to ease reading by avoiding non-English vowel combinations , diacritics and word endings. Consequently, initial iotated vowels are rendered with a “y” (e.g., Yaroslav, Yurii, not Iaroslav, Iurii); the soft sign (m) is omitted; and, in masculine personal names, the final ‘b̌’ is not transliterated (thus, for example, Khmelnytsky, not Khmel´nyts´kyi). Bibliographic references, however, are rendered in the full Library of Congress system (ligatures omitted) in order to make possible the accurate reconstruction of the Cyrillic original. The ALA-LC Romanization Tables detailing the Library of Congress transliteration of Ukrainian and Russian are available online at www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html. © 2009, Georgiy Kasianov and Philipp Ther The article by Roman Szporluk is reprinted with permission. © 2004 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Published in 2009 by Central European University Press An imprint of the Central European University Share Company Nádor utca 11, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary Tel: +36-1-327-3138 or 327-3000, Fax: +36-1-327-3183 E-mail: ceupress@ceu.hu, Website: www.ceupress.com 400 West 59th Street, New York NY 10019, USA Tel: +1-212-547-6932 Fax: +1-646-557-2416 E-mail: mgreenwald@sorosny.org Texts translated and edited by Myroslav Yurkevich On the cover: Johann Baptist Homann, Vkrania // quae et // Terra Cosaccorum // cum vicinis // Walachiae, Moldaviae, Minorisq. Tartariae Provinciis // exhibita // à Joh. Baptista Homanno // Norimbergae. Nürnberg, 1730. Source: No. 248, The Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Ucrainica Map Collection, Pusey Library, Harvard University All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the permission of the Publisher. ISBN 978-963-9776-43-2 paperback The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: A laboratory of transnational history : Ukraine and recent Ukrainian historiography / edited by Georgiy Kasianov and Philipp Ther. p. cm. ISBN 978-9639776265 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Ukraine—Historiography. 2. Ukraine—History—Errors, inventions, etc. I. Kasianov, H. V. (Heorhii Volodymyrovych), 1961- II. Ther, Philipp. III. Title: Ukraine and recent Ukrainian historiography. DK508.46.L33 2008 947.60072—dc22 2008030063 Printed in Hungary by Akaprint Nyomda ...