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Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for In Tribute to Mark von Hagen’s Contributions to Ukrainian Studies.

As Director of the Harriman Institute and Professor in the Department of History, Mark von Hagen contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Studies at Columbia and internationally. On what would have been the year he turned 70, the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, where he served as professor and dean, is publishing Vol.1 of his collected works in Ukrainian translation. The 35 works in this volume illustrate how greatly Professor von Hagen contributed through his study of Ukraine to a rethinking of the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Long before the field undertook decolonizing, he directed attention to colonialism, imperialism and federalism as well as the need to reconceive writing and teaching taking into account Ukrainian topics. In order to celebrate the new book and the career of our friend and colleague, we invite you to a book launch on Sept, 20 at 12pm. Speakers will include Valentina Izmirlieva, Maria Pryshlak, Frank Sysyn and Maria Sonevytsky. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk.

Valentina Izmirlieva is Professor in Columbia’s Slavic Department and Director of the Harriman Institute. She is a scholar of Balkan and East Slavic religious and political cultures, with a focus on multi-ethnic and multi-religious empires and their successor states. The topics of her publications range from the medieval societies of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, including Kyivan Rus’, to the post-Soviet cultural space. The recipient of many awards and distinctions, Professor Izmirlieva delivered the inaugural Memorial Shevelov Lecture of Ukrainian Studies in 2018. She founded and leads Black Sea Networks, a global initiative to investigate the Black Sea as a hub of cultural, political, and historical interest.

Maria O. Pryshlak is Rector of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, an institution with a one hundred year history. Prior to being elected rector, she served as the Dean of the Faculty of State and Economic Sciences and as professor of history and political philosophy at UFU. She holds a doctoral degree in history and political philosophy from Columbia University (New York) and is author of a monograph on constitutionalism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (four editions) and editor of a two-volume textbook on diplomacy prepared in cooperation with the Institute on Diplomacy at Georgetown University.

Frank E. Sysyn is director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), professor in the Department of History, Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Alberta, and editor in chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project, the English translation of the multi-volume History of Ukraine-Rus’ (12 volumes ). He is head of the executive committee of the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) at CIUS and of the advisory board of the Ukrainian Program at the Harriman Institute. He has taught at the University of Alberta, Harvard University, Columbia University, Stanford University, and other institutions.

Maria Sonevytsky is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Music at Bard College. She is author of Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine (2019, winner of the 2020 Lockwood First Book Prize from the American Musicological Society), Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi (2023), The Chornobyl Songs Project (2015), and many articles. She is currently working on her third book, a study of Soviet Ukrainian children’s music as told through the archive of the Kyiv Palace of Pioneers. As an undergraduate, she took classes with Prof. von Hagen, and then worked for a year as his assistant while he was President of the International Association of Ukrainianists (МАУ). Prof. von Hagen later served on her dissertation committee, and was an important mentor for many years afterwards.

Mark von Hagen

Historical Essays

Contents

Volume 1

Foreword

Publisher’s Preface

Translator’s Preface

Remembrances

1. Motyl

1. Sysyn

Historical Analysis by Vladyslav Verstiuk

Introduction

1. My career and coming to “consciousness” as a Ukrainist

Chapter I. Ukrainian History as an Academic Discipline and a Modern Field of Inquiry

2. Does Ukraine Have a History?
3. Revisiting the Histories of Ukraine
4. Achievements and Challenges for Ukrainian Studies: A View from New York, Arizona, and Germany

Chapter II. Area Studies

5. Peoples, Nations, and Identities: The Russian-Ukrainian Encounter
6. The Problem of Legacies in Understanding Contemporary Russia and the Post-Soviet Space
7. Area Studies from Cold War to Civilizational Conflict: On Learning, Relearning, and Unlearning

Chapter III. Eurasia as Anti-Paradigm

8. From Russia to Soviet Union to Eurasia: A View from New York Ten Years After the End of the Soviet Union
9. Empires, Borderlands, and Diasporas: Eurasia as Anti-Paradigm for the Post-Soviet Era

Chapter IV. New Imperial History and Ideas of Federalism in the Russian Empire

10. The Russian Empire
11. Writing the History of Russia as Empire: The Perspective of Federalism
12. Federalisms and Pan-Movements: Re-Imagining Empire

Chapter V. Anti-Colonialism and Revolutionary Ukraine

13. From Imperial Russia to Colonial Ukraine
14. Pavlo Khrystiuk’s History and the Politics of Ukrainian Anti-Colonialism
15. Wartime Occupation and Peacetime Alien Rule: ‘Notes and Materials’ toward a(n) (Anti-) (Post) Colonial History of Ukraine

Chapter VI. Personalities of the Ukrainian Revolution

16. ‘I Love Russia, and/but I Want Ukraine,’ or How a Russian Imperial General Became Hetman of the Ukrainian State, 1917–1918
17. A Socialist Army Officer Confronts War and Nationalist Politics: Konstantin Oberuchev in Revolutionary Kyiv

Chapter VII. Military History of the Late Russian Empire and the Early Soviet Union

18. The Limits of Reform: The Multiethnic Imperial Army Confronts Nationalism, 1874–1917
19. The Levée en masse from Russian Empire to Soviet Union, 1874–1938

Chapter VIII. Early Soviet History

20. The NEP, Perestroika, and the Problem of Alternatives
21. Toward a Cultural and Intellectual History of Soviet Russia in the 1920s: Some Preliminary Directions for a Reevaluation of Politics and Culture
22. Re: Walter Duranty and His Reporting from Moscow

Chapter IX. Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet History and the Stalin Debate

23. History and Politics under Gorbachev: Professional Autonomy and Democratization
24. The Stalin Debate and the Reformulation of the Soviet Past
25. Stalinism and the Politics of Post-Soviet History

Volume 2

Chapter X. The First World War and the Ukrainian Nation-Building

26. The Great War and the Mobilization of Ethnicity in the Russian Empire
27. War and Transformation of Loyalties and Identities in the Russian Empire, 1914–1918
28. The Russian Imperial Army and the Ukrainian National Movement in 1917
29. Russians and the Prospect of Ukraine: Some Episodes from a Prior End of Empire
30. War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914–1918
31. The Entangled Eastern Front in the First World War

Chapter XI. The Ukrainian Revolution and State-Building

32. The Dilemmas of Ukrainian Independence and Statehood, 1917–21
33. States, Nations, and Identities: The Russian-Ukrainian Encounter in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
34. The Emergence of Kyiv as Capital of Revolutionary Ukraine, March-July 1917, with a Focus on the War and Soldiers
35. The Imperial Turn, the Russian and Ukrainian Revolutions
36. The Entangled Eastern Front and the Making of the Ukrainian State: A Forgotten Peace – A Forgotten War and Nation-Building
37. Wars, Revolutions, Peace Talks and the Politics of National Self-Determination: Ukraine and Its Borderlands

The Mark von Hagen Bibliography

Index

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