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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461880203321

Titolo

Re-imagining Ukrainian Canadians : history, politics, and identity / / edited by Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4426-8686-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 p.)

Collana

Canadian Social History Series

Disciplina

971/.00491791

Soggetti

Ukrainians - Canada - History - 20th century

Ukrainians - Canada - Social conditions - 20th century

Ukrainians - Canada - Ethnic identity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: New Approaches to Old Questions -- 1 Generation Gap: Canada's Postwar Ukrainian Left / Hinther, Rhonda L. -- 2 Locating Identity: The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village as a Public History Text / Gabert, Karen -- Part Two: Leaders and Intellectuals -- 4 'Great Tasks and a Great Future': Paul Rudyk, Pioneer Ukrainian- Canadian Entrepreneur and Philanthropist / Melnycky, Peter -- 5 The Populist Patriot: The Life and Literary Legacy of Illia Kiriak / Balan, Jars -- 6 Sympathy for the Devil: The Attitude of Ukrainian War Veterans in Canada to Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1939 / Martynowych, Orest T. -- 7 The 'Ethnic Question' Personified: Ukrainian Canadians and Canadian- Soviet Relations, 1917-1991 / Petryshyn, Jaroslav -- 8 Monitoring the 'Return to the Homeland' Campaign: Canadian Reports on Resettlement in the USSR from South America, 1955-1957 / Cipko, Serge -- 9 Polishing the Soviet Image: The Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society and the 'Progressive Ethnic Groups,' 1949-1957 / Anderson, Jennifer -- Part Four: Internal Strife on the Left -- 10 'Pop & Co' versus Buck and the 'Lenin School Boys': Ukrainian Canadians and the Communist Party of Canada, 1921-1931 / Mochoruk, Jim -- 11 Fighting for the Soul of



the Ukrainian Progressive Movement in Canada: The Lobayites and the Ukrainian Labour-Farmer Temple Association / Makuch, Andrij -- Part Five: Everyday People -- 12 'Of course it was a Communist Hall': A Spatial, Social, and Political History of the Ukrainian Labour Temples in Ottawa, 1912-1965 / Hunchuck, S. Holyck -- 13 'I'll Fix You!': Domestic Violence and Murder in a Ukrainian Working-Class Immigrant Community in Northern Ontario / Zembrzycki, Stacey -- Conclusion / Mochoruk, Jim / Hinther, Rhonda L. -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ukrainian immigrants to Canada have often been portrayed in history as sturdy pioneer farmers cultivating the virgin land of the Canadian west. The essays in this collection challenge this stereotype by examining the varied experiences of Ukrainian-Canadians in their day-to-day roles as writers, intellectuals, national organizers, working-class wage earners, and inhabitants of cities and towns. Throughout, the contributors remain dedicated to promoting the study of ethnic, hyphenated histories as major currents in mainstream Canadian history.Topics explored include Ukrainian-Canadian radicalism, the consequences of the Cold War for Ukrainians both at home and abroad, the creation and maintenance of ethnic memories, and community discord embodied by pro-Nazis, Communists, and criminals. Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians uses new sources and non-traditional methods of analysis to answer unstudied and often controversial questions within the field. Collectively, the essays challenge the older, essentialist definition of what it means to be Ukrainian-Canadian.