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CIUS Press is pleased to announce the book of the month for November 2003:
Night and Day
by Volodymyr Gzhytsky
xiv, 242 pp.
Translated and edited by Ian Press
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About this Title
A memoir in novel form Night and Day is the third novel in a trilogy tracing the life of Mykola Stepanovych Haievsky, both a self-portrait of Gzhytsky and a depiction of a Galician intellectual of the first half of the twentieth century.
The title of the first part Into the Wide World conveys Haievsky's decision to entrust his fate to the nascent Soviet Union, while that of the second part, Great Hopes, reaffirms (with accompanying evil omens) his faith in the future of the Soviet Union. The title of the third part Night and Day conveys several ideas: the disillusionment of imprisonment and exile, followed by renewed hopes (explicit in the final words); constant unremitting and repetitive sequence of night and day in the North, with overtones of Gzhytsky's love of nature; the white nights and "black days", the more general implications of the inseparability of good and evil and the great power of fate; and, though this is most certainly an exaggeration, relations between man and woman, a theme given prominence throughout the trilogy, particularly in this third part , with its setting in the camps.
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About the Author
Volodymyr Gzhytsky (1895-1973) was born in Ostrivets in western Ukraine. He was a member of the writers' troups Pluh and Zakhidnia Ukraina. His novels include
Chorne ozero
(The Black Lake),
Povernennia
(The Return),
U shyrokyi svit
(Into the Wide World),
Opryshky
(Opryshoks), Slovo chesty (Word of Honour), and Karmeliuk.
*** New Title from CIUS Press ***
The Pereiaslav Treaty of 1654 [Historiography and Research])
by Serhii Plokhy, et. al.
889 pp. (in Ukrainian)
ISBN 1889240184
$64.95 (cloth)
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http://www.utoronto.ca/cius/publications/books/pereiaslavskarada.htm
About the Book
The collection of essays in The Pereiaslav Treaty of 1654 illuminates and clarifies the agreement between Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Muscovite Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovych. Part 1 is divided into two sections: the first contains five republished scholarly essays that appeared between 1910-1950s, while the second part contains five articles of political commentary and interpretation that appeared from the last quarter of the 19th century to the 1970s. Among these is Mykhailo Braichevsky's "Annexation or Reunion?" that circulated in Ukraine in manuscript form and was published only outside of the Soviet Union in the 1970s. This edition also contains the record of the Insititute of History's meetings that condemned Braichevsky as well as Braichevsky's answers to his critics.
Part 2 contains six essays of contemporary historians on Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and English-language historiography examining the Pereiaslav Treaty, its causes and consequences.
Part 3 contains five new scholarly studies exploring the origins, events, and significance of the Pereiaslav Treaty.
A twenty-two page name index completes this impressive and handsome volume.
Authors include Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Viacheslav Lypynsky, Rostyslav Lashchenko, Andrij Iakovliv, Oleksandr Ohloblyn, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Dmytro Dontsov, Roman Bzhesky, Zynovyi Knysh, Mykhailo Braichevsky, Frank Sysyn, Volodymyr Kravchenko, Oleksi Yas, Viktor Brekhunenko, Miroslav Nagielsky, Viktor Horobets, Taras Chukhlib, Serhii Plokhy and Iaroslav Fedoruk.
This publication was made possible by the generous support of the Ivan and Elizabeth Khlopetsky Fund of the Shechenko Scientific Society (America) and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
Copublished in 2003 by the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Sources (NAN Ukraine) the Shevchenko Scientific Society (USA), Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, and Smoloskyp Publishing (Kyiv).
*** New on the CIUS Press Web Site ***
Book Review article of
Pereiaslav 1954: A Historiographical Study
by Frank E. Sysyn
http://www.utoronto.ca/cius/publications/books/pereiaslav.htm
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