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Ukrainian Studies Resource Guide

Ukrainian Studies

This guide lists resources available in the University of Alberta Libraries in print or other formats, as well as available in electronic format on the World Wide Web. Most print resources listed below are housed at the University of Alberta Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Rutherford Library Complex. Access to some online resources is restricted to the University of Alberta user community.

Getting Started

General Background Information Resources

  • Guide to the Republics of the Former Soviet Union
    DK 293 T973 1993 - Reference (no loan)

  • The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History
    DK 14 M68 1976 - Reference (no loan)

  • Placenames of Russia and the Former Soviet Union: Origins and Meanings...
    DK 15 R66 1996 - Reference (no loan)

  • The World Almanac of the Soviet Union: from 1905 to the Present
    DK 246 S537 1990 - Reference (no loan)

Background Information Resources that Concentrate on Ukraine

  • Encyclopedia of Ukraine
    AE 60 U4 E62 1984 - Reference (no loan)
    See also revised and updated online version 

  • Entsyklopediia nashoho ukrainoznavstva
    DK 508 A4 K79 2003 - copy 1: Reference (no loan); copy 2: On shelf (circulating)

  • Entsyklopediia suchasnoiï Ukrainy
    AE 60 U4 E54 2001 - Reference (no loan)

  • Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva
    AE 60 U4 E6 1993 - Reference (no loan)

  • Heohrafichna entsyklopediia Ukrainy
    DK 508.2 H528 1989 - Reference (no loan)

  •  Historical dictionary of Ukraine
    DK 508.444 K64 2005 - Reference (no loan); copy 2: On shelf (circulating)

  • Internet encyclopedia of Ukraine
    http://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/default.asp

  • Istoriia Ukrainy v datakh
    DK 508.444 L37 1995 - Reference (no loan)

  • Radians'ka Entsyklopediia Istorii Ukrainy
    DK 508.5 R13 1969 - Reference (no loan)

  • Ukrains'kyi radians'kyi entsyklopedychnyi slovnyk
    AE 60 U4 U355 1986 - Reference (no loan)

  • Ukraïntsi: istoryko-etnohrafichna monohrafiia u dvokh knyhakh
    DK 508.42 U376 1999 - Reference (no loan)
    (Table of contents in English and Ukrainian)

Biographical Sources

General Biographical Sources

  • Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents in the Soviet Union, 1956-1975
    DK 275 A1 B615 1982 - Reference (no loan)

  • The Biographical Dictionary of the Former Soviet Union
    DK 37 V984 1992 - Reference (no loan)

  • The International Who's Who of Women 1997
    CT 3202 I625 1997 - Reference (no loan)

  • The Soviet Union: A Biographical Dictionary
    DK 37 S729 1990 - Reference (no loan)

  • Who's Who in Russia and the New States
    CT 1203 W628 1993 - Reference (no loan)

  • Who's Who in the Soviet Union
    DK 37 W62 1984 - Reference (no loan)

  • Who Was Who in the USSR
    DK 253 I54 [1972] - Reference (no loan)

Biographical Sources that Concentrate on Ukraine

  • Dictionary of Ukrainian Canadian Biography of Pioneer Settlers of Alberta 1891-1900
    FC 3700 U5 K23 1984 - Reference (no loan)

  • Khto ie khto v Ukraini 1997
    DK 508.45 K484 1997 - Reference (no loan)

Bibliographies and Guides

Dictionaries and Lexicons

  • Istoriohrafichnyi slovnyk
    DK 508.46 I883 2004 - Reference (no loan)
  • Leksykon kultury ukrainskiej
    DK 508.4 W55 2004 - Reference (no loan)
  • USE : universal’nyi slovnyk-entsyklopediia
    AE 60 U4 U84 2001 - copy 1: Reference (no loan); copy 2: UA Rutherford South Flr 1 (circulating)

Directories

  • Handbuch Russland, Ukraine, Belarus, GUS-Kontakte : Institutionen, Projekte, Initiativen
    DK 510.2 H36 1998 - Reference (no loan)

  • The Post-Soviet Handbook: A Guide to Grassroots Organizations and Internet Resources in the Newly Independent States
    HS 71 F6 R84 1996 - Reference (no loan)

  • The Tauris Soviet Directory: The Elite of the USSR Today
    DK 37.4 T227 1989 - Reference (no loan)

  • Zolota knyha ukrainskoi elity
    DK 508 A46 Z65 2001 - Reference (no loan)

History

General Histories

  • Encyclopedia of Russian history
    DK 14 E53 2004 - Reference (no loan)
    Online version: http://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/eBooks?ste=22&docNum=CX3404199999&q=edmo69826

  • Encyclopedia of Russian history : from the Christianization of Kiev to the break-up of the U.S.S.R
    DK 36 P342 1993 - Reference (no loan)

  • Entsyklopediia istorii Ukrainy
    DK 508.444 E587 2003 - Reference (no loan)

  • Entsiklopediia russkoi istorii
    DK 36 B46 2000 - Reference (no loan)

  • Historical dictionary of Ukraine
    DK 508.444 K64 2005 - copy 1: Reference (no loan); copy 2: UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • A History of Ukraine
    DK 508.51 M34 1996 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • Istoriia otechestva : s drevneishikh vremen do nashikh dnei : entsiklopedicheskii slovar
    DK 36 I84 1999 - Reference (no loan)
    Online version: http://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=http://www.rubricon.com/io_1.asp

  • Narys istorii Ukrainy
    DK 508.51 Z48 1992 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • Rethinking Ukrainian History
    DK 508.52 R43 1981 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating) 

  • Ukraine: A Brief History
    DK 508.5 S99 1982 HSS - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • Ukraine: A History
    DK 508.51 S94 1994 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

Histories of Kyivan-Rus'

  • The Emergence of Rus 750-1200
    DK 73 F73 1996 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)  

  • Historical dictionary of medieval Russia
    DK 71 L32 2002 - Reference (no loan)

  • History of Ukraine-Rus' 
    DK 508.5 H6813 1997 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • The Mystery of Kyiv's Original Rus'
    DK 72 K74 1991 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • Rus and Ukraine in Medieval Times
    DK 508.66 K74 1991 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)
  • Slavianskaia ·entsiklopediia : Kievskaia Rus-Moskoviia
    DK 71 B65 2001 - Reference (no loan)

16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Century Histories

  • Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth-Century Ukraine
    DK 35 G67 1983 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)
  • Imperial Russia : a reference handbook
    DK 14 P39 2001 - Reference (no loan)
  • The Longman companion to Imperial Russia, 1689-1917
    DK 113 L66 2000 - Reference (no loan)

  • The Mazepists: Ukrainian Separatism in the Early Eighteenth Century
    DK 508.76 S94 1981 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • Pro kozats'ki chasy na Ukraini
    DK 508.55 A635 1991 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy: Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760's-1830's
    DK 508.759 K79 1988 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • Ukrainian Past, Ukrainian Present
    DK 508.772 W972 1990 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)
  • "Ukrainian Social Tensions Before the Khmel'nyts'kyi Uprising" in Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine
    BL 65 C8 R442 1997 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)
  • Ukrainske kozatstvo : mala entsyklopediia
    DK 508.55 U38 2002 - Reference (no loan)

Twentieth Century Histories

  • The Great Soviet Peasant War: Bolsheviks and Peasants
    DK 265 G752 1996 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
    HD 1492 R9 C753 1987 - UA Rutherford North Flr 4 (circulating)

  • Khronika Rossii : XX vek
    DK 246 K48 2002 - Reference (no loan)
  • Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-century Ukraine
    HN 530 U5 K89 1987 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • Ukraine During World War II: History and Its Aftermath: A Symposium
    D 802 U3 U35 1986 HSS - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence
    DK 508.84 K97 1994 HSS - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • Ukraine: Stability and Instability
    (Includes Economic and Social Conditions)
    DK 508.51 J39 1995 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

Search for Journal Articles on History in the Slavic and East European Studies databases:

  • Ethnology and Folklore

    • Entsiklopediia kultur narodov IUga Rossii v 9 tomakh
      DK 509 E58 2005 - Reference (no loan)

    • An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires
      DK 33 E84 1994  - Reference (no loan)
    • The former Soviet Union's diverse peoples : a reference sourcebook
      DK 33 M54 2004 - Reference (no loan)

    • Mala entsyklopediia etnoderzhavoznavstva
      DK 508.848 R96 1996  - Reference (no loan)

    • Narodoznavchi zoshyty
      DK 508.42 N36 [1995-1996] - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    • The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook
      DK 33 W83 1984  - Reference (no loan)

    • Ukrains'ke narodoznavstvo
      DK 508.42 U35 1994 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)
    • Ukraintsi : istoryko-etnohrafichna monohrafiia u dvokh knyhakh
      DK 508.42 U376 1999 - Reference (no loan)

    Area Studies and National Movements

    Area Studies

    • Encyclopedia of Rusyn history and culture
      DJK 28 R87 E53 2005 - Reference (no loan)
    • Ethnic groups of the South-Western Ukraine (Halycyna-Galicia)
      DK 508.9 U37 K95 1983 folio - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    • Galicia and Bukovina: A Research Handbook About Western Ukraine, Late 19th and 20th Centuries
      DK 4600 G34 H658 1990 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    National Movements

    • Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940's
      (Includes chapters specifically about Western Ukraine)
      DK 508.84 M357 1992 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    • Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Period
      FC 106 U5 M319 1991 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)
    • Zakhidna Ukraïna--borot’ba za sobornist’
      DK 508.9 U37 Z9 L47 2004 - Reference (no loan)

    Use keywords such as: Western Ukraine, Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Relations, Bukovina, Galicia, Nationalism, Nationalities, Ukrainian National Movement to find Journal Articles in the Slavic and East European Studies databases.

    Women's Issues

    • Feminists Despite Themselves: Women in Ukrainian Community Life 1884-1939
      HQ 1664 U3 B676 1988 - UA Rutherford North Flr 4 (circulating)

    • "The Limits of Research: Women's Studies in Ukraine" in Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms in International Politics
      HQ 1106 T73 1997 - UA Rutherford North Flr 4 (circulating)

    • Women in Russia and Ukraine
      HQ 1665.15 W663 1996 - UA Rutherford North Flr 4 (circulating)

    • Zhinka i demokratiia: materialy mizhnarodnoi naukovo-praktychnoi, konferentsii, Ukraina Kyiv, 1995
      HQ 1236.5 U38 Z48 1995 - UA Rutherford North Flr 4 (circulating)
    • ZHinky Ukraïny : biohrafichnyi entsyklopedychnyi slovnyk
      DK 508.459 Z59 2001 - Reference (no loan)

    Search For Journal Articles on Women's Issues in the Slavic and East European Studies databases or in the Women's Studies databases. 

    Religion

    • The Blackwell dictionary of Eastern Christianity
      BX 100.7 B53 1999 - Reference (no loan)
    • Christian Social Ethics in Ukraine: The Legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky
      BX 4711.695 S53 K73 1997 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    • The Gun and Faith: Religion and Church in the Ukraine under Communist Rule: A Brief
      (Covers Christian, Jewish and Moslem faiths)
      BR 937 U3 M99 1969 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)
    • Historical dictionary of the Orthodox Church
      BX 230 P76 1996 - Reference (no loan)

    • Istoriia tserkvy ta relihiinoi dumky v Ukraini u tr'okh knihakh
      BR 937 U4 U55 1994 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    • The liturgical dictionary of eastern Christianity
      BX 100.7 D39 1993 - Reference (no loan)
    • Millenium of Christianity in Ukraine
      BR 937 U3 M655 1988 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    • Pravoslavnaia entsiklopediia
      BX 470 P73 2000 - Reference (no loan)
    • Pravoslavnyi slovar
      BX 230 S55 2000 - Reference (no loan)
    • Seeking God: The Recovery of Religious Identity in Orthodox Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia
      BX 310 S4515 1993 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

  • Ethnic Relations

    Jewish-Ukrainian Relations

    • Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective
      DS 135 R93 U32 U348 1990 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    • Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-46
      DS 135 R93 G3436 1991 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    Ukrainian-German Relations

    • German-Ukrainian Relations in Historical Perspective
      DK 508.57 G3 G37 1994 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    Ukrainian-Polish Relations

    • Polish-Ukrainian Relations During World War II: Ethnic Cleansing in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
      D 804 U35 P56 1995 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    Ukrainian-Russian Relations

    • Ukraine and Russia in Their Historical Encounter
      DK 508.57 R9 U35 1992 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)

    Geography

    • Heohrafichna entsyklopediia Ukrainy
      DK 508.2 H528 1989 - Reference (no loan)
    • Historical atlas of East Central Europe
      G 2081 S1 M129 1993 folio - Reference (no loan)
    • Istoriko-toponimicheskii slovar’ Rossii : dosovetskii period
      DK 15 P67 2000 - Reference (no loan)
    • Land of the Cossacks: Antiquarian Maps of Ukraine = Zemlia kozakiv: starovynni karty Ukrainy
      GA 935 U5 L253 1987 - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)
    • Slovnyk heohrafichnykh nazv Ukraïny
      DK 508 A45 H66 2001 - Reference (no loan)
    • Slovnyk vidtoponimnykh prykmetnykiv i nazv zhyteliv Ukrainy
      DK 508 A45 H67 2000 - Reference (no loan)
    • Toponimichnyi slovnyk Ukrainy
      DK 508 A45 I16 1998 - Reference (no loan)
    • Ukraine: A Historical Atlas
      G 2151 S1 M22 1985 folio - copy 1: Reference (no loan); copy 2: - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)
    • Wörterbuch geographischer Namen des Baltikums und der Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten (GUS)
      DK 15 W67 2000 - Reference (no loan)

    Economics

    • East Europe & the republics
      DJK 1 E12 - Latest edition in Reference (no loan); others - UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating)
    • Ukrainian Economic History: Interpretive Essays
      HC 337 U5 U35 1991 - UA Rutherford North Flr 4 (circulating)

    • The Ukrainian Economy: Achievements, Problems, Challenges
      HC 340.19 U38 1992 - UA Rutherford North Flr 4 (circulating)

    • Ukraine's Economic Reform: Obstacles, Errors, Lessons
      HC 340.19 S54 1996 - UA Rutherford North Flr 4 (circulating)

    Journal Articles

    To find journal articles you need to search in a periodical index. Many indexes are available online and some are in print. The online indexes are also called databases. Most databases listed on the Slavic and East European Studies page are relevant for Ukrainian studies. Some of the databases are open access, others are restricted to the University of Alberta user community (access restriction in the databases list is indicated by the UofA crest: Restricted to University of Alberta Users 

  • Types of databases and FAQs.

     

    Key Journals and Newspapers

    General Journals that Include Articles about Ukraine

    • Canadian Slavonic Papers
      PG 1 C21 [1956-present]
      UA Rutherford North Flr 5 (circulating) and HSS Current Periodicals Rutherford South Flr 2 (circulating)
      - Articles from 1996 to the present indexed in Academic Search Elite

    • Slavonica
      DJK 24 S44 [1994-present]
      Formerly: Scottish Slavonic Review DJK 24 S43 [1983-1993]
      UA Rutherford North Flr 3 (circulating) and HSS Current Periodicals Rutherford South Flr 2 (circulating)
      - Articles indexed in MLA International Bibliography

    • Slavic Review
      D 377 A1 S6 [1992-present]
      UA Rutherford North Flr 4 (circulating) and HSS Current Periodicals Rutherford South Flr 2 (circulating)
      - Articles from 1990 to the present indexed in ABSEES
      - Slavic Review Online - inludes abstracts of the articles in the current issue, and tables of contents of previous issues and of the forthcoming issue


    Journals that Concentrate on Ukraine

    • Dzvin'
      AP 58 U5 Z632 [1990-present] HSS Rutherford South 1st Floor

    • Ekonomika radians'koi Ukrainy
      HC 337 U3 E36 [1961-1991] HSS 4th Floor

    • Harvard Ukrainian Studies
      DK 508 A2 H325 [1977-1992] HSS 3rd Floor

    • Journal of Ukrainian Studies
      (Formerly: Journal of Ukrainian Graduate Studies 1976-1979)
      DK 508 A2 J862 [1980-present]
      HSS 3rd Floor and HSS Current Periodicals Rutherford South 2nd Floor

    • Krytyka (Kiev, Ukraine)
      Internet Access: v.5 (2001)- http://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=http://www.krytyka.kiev.ua/
      Z 1035 A1 K96 [1998-present] HSS 5th Floor

    • The Ukrainian Quarterly
      DK 508 A2 U35 [1955-present]
      HSS 3rd Floor and HSS Current Periodicals Rutherford South 2nd Floor

    • The Ukrainian Review
      DK 508 A2 U352 [1954-1996] HSS 3rd Floor

    • Ukrainskyi istorichnyi zhurnal
      DK 508 A2 U37 [1957-present] 
      UA Rutherford 3rd Floor and HSS Current Periodicals Rutherford South 2nd Floor

    • Vidomosti Verkhovnoi rady Ukrainy
      GOV DOC UR2 UK VS V382 - Rutherford South 1st Floor

    Newspapers

    A number of newspapers are available online full-text through subscription based databases. Please check out the following:  

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    Recommended Online Resources for Ukrainian Studies

    Slavic Studies Main Page

    This guide provides selective resources available through the Internet or at the University of Alberta for Ukrainian Studies.

    Any questions, comments or suggestions about Ukrainian Studies should be directed to:
    Erika Banski - email: erika.banski@ualberta.ca or phone: (780) 492-1404.

    Last updated:  February 2006

    Guide compiled by Lindsay Johnston; updated and maintained by Erika Banski

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