Cultures and Nations of Central and Eastern Europe

Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk

Editor Zvi Gitelman

Editor Lubomyr A. Hajda

Editor John-Paul Himka

Editor Roman Solchanyk

    Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Poland. Supplemented by a bibliography of the work of Roman Szporluk, these fresh, urgent essays mirror Szporluk's broad and comparativist approach. Topics range from the rise of Ukrainian national consciousness in Galicia, to nationalism in contemporary Serbia; from the rise of private property in the Russia of Catherine II, to contemporary Russian attitudes toward Ukrainian nation building. Other essays explore the impact of theories of nationalism on the discipline of history and critique Ernest Gellner's "constructivist" theory of the nation.
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Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judiac Studies, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, and Research Scientist at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dr. Lubomyr A. Hajda is the Associate Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

John-Paul Himka is Professor of History in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta.

Roman Solchanyk is a Consultant at the Rand Corporation.

Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak is senior program officer in the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Audrey Helfant Budding is Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Walter D. Connor is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Departrment of Political Science at Boston University.

Steven D. Corrsin is Acting Head of Acquisitions at Wayne State University Libraries.

John V. A. Fine is Professor of History at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Michael S. Flier is Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

George G. Grabowicz is Dmytro Cyzevs'kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.

Patricia Kennedy Grimsted is a Senior Research Associate at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University.

Fiona Hill is Director of Strategic Planning at the Eurasia Foundation.

Yaroslav Hrytsak is Director of the Institute for Historical Research, Ivan Franko Lviv National University.

Assya Humesky is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Emerita, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Owen V. Johnson is Professor in the School of Journalism and Adjunct Professor in the Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Edward L. Keenan is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History and Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University.

Padraic Kenney is Associate Professor of East European History in the Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Ksenya Kiebuzinski is Petro Jacyk Bibliographer in Ukrainian Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Zenon E. Kohut is Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.

Rita Krueger is Associate Director, Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Hugo Lane is Assistant Professor of History, Polytechnic University.

Michal Lesiow is Professor and Director, Emeritus, Department of Ukrainian Philology, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University.

Irina Livezeanu is a Professor in the Department of History, University of Pittsburgh.

Richard Pipes is Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of History, Emeritus, Harvard University.

Antony Polonsky is Walter Stern Hilborn Professor of Judaic and Social Sduties, Brandeis University.

Omeljan Pritsak is Mykhailo Hryshevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone is Professor of Political Science, Emerita, Carleton University.

Konrad Sadkowski is Assistant Professor of History, University of Northern Iowa.

Ihor Sevcenko is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University.

Keely Stauter-Halsted is Assistant Professor of History, Michigan State University.

Ronald Girgor Suny is Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago.

Frank E. Sysyn is Director at the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Studies at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.

Larissa Szporluk is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bowling Green State University.

Andrzej Walicki is Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Notre Dame.

Larry Wolff is Professor of History at Boston College.

William Zimmerman is Professor of Political Science and Director and Research Scientist at the Center for Political Studies, and Research Scientist at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.