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Ukrainian: Ukraine and Ukrainian History

ukrainian: Until then, histories of Ukraine, especially those officially permitted by Moscow, tended to paint a provincial picture, placing Ukraine squarely within a Soviet context, according to Globe and Mail. Ukraine was the cradle of Slavic peoples and the breadbasket of the USSR, so the clichés went. Subtelny book did in the country it examined. There were no books on Ukrainian history that were objective being used in Ukraine, noted Dr. In 1982, York history department partnered with the Canadian-Ukrainian community to fund a three-year professorship to teach courses in Ukrainian history and Soviet nationalities. Jurij Darewych, president of the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre and a former physics professor at Toronto York University. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.