Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity

Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity

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Edited by Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk

Canadian Social History Series
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division © 2010
World Rights
448 Pages
Paper
ISBN 9781442610620
Published Feb 2011
$35.00
Cloth
ISBN 9781442641341
Published Feb 2011
$80.00
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Ukrainian immigrants to Canada have often been portrayed in history as sturdy pioneer farmers cultivating the virgin land of the Canadian west. The essays in this collection challenge this stereotype by examining the varied experiences of Ukrainian-Canadians in their day-to-day roles as writers, intellectuals, national organizers, working-class wage earners, and inhabitants of cities and towns. Throughout, the contributors remain dedicated to promoting the study of ethnic, hyphenated histories as major currents in mainstream Canadian history.

Topics explored include Ukrainian-Canadian radicalism, the consequences of the Cold War for Ukrainians both at home and abroad, the creation and maintenance of ethnic memories, and community discord embodied by pro-Nazis, Communists, and criminals. Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians uses new sources and non-traditional methods of analysis to answer unstudied and often controversial questions within the field. Collectively, the essays challenge the older, essentialist definition of what it means to be Ukrainian-Canadian.

Rhonda L. Hinther is the Western Canadian History curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Jim Mochoruk is a professor in the Department of History at the University of North Dakota.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Jim Mochoruk and Rhonda L. Hinther

Section I: New Approaches to Old Question


GENERATION GAP: CANADA'S POSTWAR UKRAINIAN LEFT
Rhonda L. Hinther

LOCATING IDENTITY: THE UKRAINIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE VILLAGE AS A PUBLIC HISTORY TEXT
Karen Gabert

"A VAGUELY DIVIDED GUILT": THE ABORIGINAL UKRAINIAN
Lindy A. Ledohowski


Section II: Leaders and Intellectuals


"GREAT TASKS AND A GREAT FUTURE": PAUL RUDYK, PIONEER UKRAINIAN CANADIAN ENTREPRENEUR AND PHILANTHROPIST
Peter Melnycky

THE POPULIST PATRIOT: THE LIFE AND LITERARY LEGACY OF ILLIA KIRIAK
Jars Balan

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: THE ATTITUDE OF UKRAINIAN WAR VETERANS IN CANADA TO NAZI GERMANY AND THE JEWS, 1933-1939
Orest T. Martynowych


Section III: Diplomacy and International Concerns

THE "ETHNIC QUESTION" PERSONIFIED: UKRAINIAN CANADIANS AND CANADIAN - SOVIET RELATIONS 1917 - 1991
Jaroslav Petryshyn

MONITORING THE "RETURN TO THE HOMELAND" CAMPAIGN: CANADIAN REPORTS ON RESETTLEMENT IN THE USSR FROM SOUTH AMERICA, 1955-57
Serge Cipko

POLISHING THE SOVIET IMAGE: THE CANADIAN-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY AND THE 'PROGRESSIVE ETHNIC GROUPS,' 1949-1957
Jennifer Anderson

 

Section IV: Internal Strife on the Left

'POP & CO' VS BUCK AND THE 'LENIN SCHOOL BOYS': UKRAINIAN CANADIANS AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA, 1921-31
Jim Mochoruk

FIGHTING FOR THE SOUL OF THE UKRAINIAN PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT IN CANADA: THE LOBAYITES AND THE UKRAINIAN LABOUR-FARMER TEMPLE ASSOCIATION
Andrij Makuch


Section V: Everyday People


"OF COURSE IT WAS A COMMUNIST HALL:" A SPATIAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE UKRAINIAN LABOUR TEMPLES IN OTTAWA, 1912-1965
S. Holyck Hunchuck

"I'LL FIX YOU!" DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND MURDER IN A UKRAINIAN WORKING-CLASS IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY IN NORTHERN ONTARIO
Stacey Zembrzycki

Conclusion - Jim Mochoruk and Rhonda L. Hinther

'Re-imagining Ukrainian-Canadians takes Ukrainian-Canadian history in new directions with its strong group of essays, the quality of which are up with the best in the field. Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk's effectively organized collection will appeal to those interested in Canadian social and political history, as well as the history of the country's left- and right-wing ideologies and movements.'

John Manley, Department of History, University of Central Lancashire