GENERAL STUDIES
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Among general studies (describing natural and political history, economic
conditions and cultural developments) of the region, one can find works by
authors representing different ideological attitudes. Only one author, Paul R.
Magocsi (b.1945) points at those different historiographical interpretations of
the history of the region and discusses them in:
The Shaping of a
National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus' 1848-1949, Cambridge, 1978. See
also his: The Rusyns of Slovakia: An Historical Survey, New
York, 1993.
Among Ukrainian interpretations of the general history of the region there
are:
Narysy istorii Zakarpattia [Outline of the History of the
Transcarpathian Region], the library has vol.1: Z naidavniishych chasiv
do 1918 [From the Oldest Period to 1918], Uzhhorod, 1993;
Ukrainskie
Karpaty [Ukrainian Carpathians], vol.2: Istoria [History],
vol.3: Ekonomika
[Economy],
vol.4: Kultura [Culture], Kiev 1988-1989;
Ivan
Vanat (b.1926), Narysy novitn'oii istorii ukraintsiv Skhidnoii
Slovachchyny [An Outline of the Modern History of the Ukrainians in
Eastern Slovakia], vol.1. 1918-1938, vol.2. 1939-1948, Bratislava-Presov,
1979-85.
There is also a work by a Slovak historian L'udovit Haraksim (b.1928),
K sociálnym a kúlturnym dejinám Ukraincov na
Slovensku do roku 1861, [On the Social and Cultural History of the
Ukrainians in Slovakia before 1861], Bratislava, 1961, Vikentii Shandor,
Zakarpattia [Transcarpathian Region], New York, 1992.
Rusynophile interpretation of the history of Rusyns can be found in works by
an amateur and a professional American authors:
John Slivka (1899-1986),
The History of the Greek Rite Catholics in Pannonia, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, and Podkarpatska Rus', 883-1949, [Brooklyn], 1974;
Walter C. Warzeski (b.1929), Byzantine Rite Rusins in Carpatho-Ruthenia
and America, Pittsburgh, 1971.
This orientation was also represented by
a pro-Hungarian author Sandor Bonkáló (1880-1959), A Rutének
(Ruszinok), [Budapest, 1940], (also available in English translation: The
Rusyns, Fairview, NJ, 1990);
The Lemko Region has one big and in most of the chapters very solid
Ukrainian orientated monography. Unfortunately, its weakest part is the one
describing the history of the region:
Bohdan Strumins'kyi (b.1930), Editor.,
Lemkivshchyna: Zemlia-Liudy-Istoria-Kultura [The Lemko Region.
Territory-People-History-Culture], vol.1-2, New York-Paris-Sydney-Toronto, 1988.
Ukrainian point of view is also presented in:
IUliian Tarnovych (1903-1977),
Iliustrovana Istoriia Lemkivshchyny [Illustrated History of
the Lemko Region], New York, 1964.
I.F. Lemkin [Ioann Polianskii] (1898-196?)
wrote amateur Russophile work:
Istoriia Lemkoviny [The History
of the Lemko Region], Yonkers, 1969.
Krystyna Pieradzka emphasized Polish
origins of the Lemko Region and the influence of the Polish culture on Lemkos in
her:
Na szlakach £emkowszczyzny [On the Roads of the
Lemko Region], Kraków, 1939.
General history of Rusyns in Serbia and Slovenia is given in:
Fedor Labosh
(1902-1977), Ystoryia Rusynokh Bachkei, Srymu y Slavonyi 1745-1918
[The History of Rusyns in Bachka, Srym and Slavonia 1745-1918],
Vukovar, 1979. See also: Radomir Pritsa, Rusnatsy u Mytrovytsy ot 1851
do 1914 roku [Rusyns in Mitrovica from 1851 to 1914], Montreal, 1981.
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