New publications
The book “Tell Them We Are Starving: The 1933 Diaries of Gareth Jones” was recently released as part of The Holodomor Occasional Papers Series.
Prof. Lubomyr Luciuk, editor of The Holodomor Occasional Papers Series, on May 9 announced publication of “Tell Them We Are Starving: The 1933 Soviet Diaries of Gareth Jones,” (No. 2 in the series). The new book provides facsimiles from the three pocket notebooks, as well as a transcription of their contents, that Welsh journalist Gareth Jones wrote during a three-week stay in the USSR during March 1933, when famine was devastating Ukraine. According to Dr. Ray Gamache, a media historian and the book’s transcriber, the diaries constitute one of the most important independent, verifiable records of a horrific event, now known as the Holodomor, recorded as it was unfolding in Ukraine.
Harvard University’s Serhii Plokhy, Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, released a book that traces Ukraine’s history from the time of the ancient Greek settlements to the Maidan. “The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine,” is based on the premise that we need to take a look at Ukraine’s past in order to understand its present and foresee its future. This work examines Ukraine as a gateway between East and West, situated as it is between Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Dr. Plokhy was honored on November 14 with the Omelan and Tatiana Antonovych Foundation award for his work as a historian and author of history books that insightfully analyze Ukraine’s past and present and shed light on what may be in store for its future.
New archival fellowship
During International Week in January, CIUS at the University of Alberta announced the establishment of a new archival fellowship in Ukrainian, including Ukrainian Canadian, studies. CIUS invited applications for one or more archival fellowships in this field. The fellowship is open to applications from students, graduate students or scholars wishing to collect archives or assist existing archival institutions to catalogue and digitize their Ukrainian archival collections. The fellowship is made possible through the support of the Stephania Bukachevska-Pastushenko Endowment Fund.