Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky Essays Now in Polish

(CIUS) - A collection of essays by Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky Between History and Politics (Iwan Lysiak-Rudnycki. Między historią a polityką) has been published in Polish translation by the Jan Nowak-Jezioranski Eastern Europe Collegium Press in Wroclaw at the beginning of 2012, with the cooperation of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Modern Ukrainian History and Politics at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) and media support of the most popular Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.

Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky (1919-1984) was a professor of history at the University of Alberta and one of the founders of CIUS. The institute published an English edition of his Essays in Modern Ukrainian History (Edmonton, 1987) and his complete works in Ukrainian (Kyiv, 1994).

The Polish edition has been compiled based on these two editions. The editor and author of the preface is Professor Yaroslav Hrytsak, director of the Lviv-based Jacyk Program; the renowned Polish political activist Adam Michnik wrote an introduction. He considers this book a must for everyone who is interested in the history of Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Book launches were held this spring in Warsaw, Wroclaw, and Cracow, and were well attended.

The collection appeared as the first issue of the Polish-language ten-volume series “Library of the Ukrainian Thought in the Twentieth Century.” A similar Russian-language series produced its first volume in 2007 - essays of Lysiak-Rudnytsky, but ceased to exist after the death of Dmitrii Furman, a well-known Russian historian, political analyst and co-editor of the series. The second volume of the Polish-language series is to come out by the end of 2012 and will contain works by Symon Petliura. Another volume will be The Ukrainian Thought on the Eve and after the Collapse of Communism, 1986-2011.

More information about the book can be found at the publisher’s website at

www.kew.org.pl/index.php?page=224