Books in the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications series

Leonard Friesen presents a study of the transformation of New Russia--the region north of the Black and Azov seas--from its conquest by the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth century to the revolutionary tumult of 1905. Friesen focuses on the multifaceted relations between the region's peasants, European colonists, and Russian estate owners.

The foremost authority today on Soviet and post-Soviet archives in Eastern Europe considers the essential problems of Ukrainian archeography.

The Tale of Bygone Years (Povest' vremennykh let) is the most important source for the history of early Rus'. This massive undertaking provides scholars and general readers with the first fully legible text that includes all of the known redactions of the Povest'.

Written in honor of one of the foremost observers of nationalism and culture in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together 35 eminent scholars from the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Poland. Supplemented by a bibliography of the work of Roman Szporluk, these fresh, urgent essays mirror Szporluk's broad and comparativist approach.

This controversial and groundbreaking book revisits the origins of one of the most beloved works of East Slavic literature, Slovo o polku Igoreve (The Igor' Tale). Keenan argues that the text is not an authentic 12th-century document but rather was created by the Bohemian scholar Josef Dobrovsky in the late 18th century.

The Kievan Caves Monastery was for centuries the most important Ukrainian monastic establishment. It was the outstanding center of literary production, and its monks served throughout the territory of Rus' as bishops and monastic superiors. Heppell now makes available the first complete English translation of the Paterik.

Written in the seventeenth century, The Hustynja Chronicle is the earliest systematic history of Kyivan Rus and Ukraine from biblical times until the Union of Brest in 1596. This volume is the first scholarly edition of the chronicle. The Introduction, in Ukrainian and English, describes the chronicle in detail and explores its history.

Shcherbak-former Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S.-came to international prominence with his expose on Chornobyl, as a founder of Ukraine's Green Party, as Ukraine's first minister of environmental protection, and as its first ambassador to Israel. This book assesses the period of Ukraine's rise to importance in the European geo-strategic posture.

Among the finest products of early Ukrainian literature were the Lives of the first Rus' saints. Hollingsworth provides a lucid introduction that discusses each saint and his or her cult in the historical as well as social contexts and examines the literary and textual features of the Rus' vitae.