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Problems of Periodization and Terminology in Ukrainian Historiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Stephan M. Horak
Stephan M. Horak*
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Eastern Illinois University
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The late Mykola Chubatyi, a leading Ukrainian historian who resided in this country since 1939, recalled in one of his numerous writings (Ukrains'ka istorychna nauka i ii rozvytok ta dosiahnennia, Philadelphia, 1971) an event involving then Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Asked by one of his associates why he never mentions Ukraine, Rusk answered: “Ukraine is not a statenation and there never existed a Ukrainian state.” Reminded by an insisting friend that this is not the case, because Ukrainians have had their statehood in the Middle Ages and again during the seventeenth century and the Ukrainian SSR is after all a member of the United Nations, Rusk instantly and professorially fired back that Russia always had some problems in the South.

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Problems of Periodization and Terminology in the Histories of Belorussians and Ukrainians
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Fall 1975 , pp. 5 - 24
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Copyright © Association for the Study of Nationalities, 1975 

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