Acknowledgments

This book was written on two continents in the course of a decade that proved crucial in every respect for the lands of Eastern Europe and for the historiography of the region. These changes could not help but influence the character of the present volume.

In the course of my work, I have accumulated considerable debts to many people and institutions in both the old world and the new. I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who have given me the great­est assistance in completing this project. My special thanks go to Frank Sysyn, without whose help, support, and encouragement over many years this book either would not have been written or would have been sorely diminished in quality. He was constantly involved in discussions about the book’s content, shared copies of materials from Polish and Russian archives, and attentively read the first draft of the present work. I am also deeply grateful to my colleague Myroslav Yurkevich, an editor of many years’ experience, who offered considerable advice about the con­tent of the book and its bibliography. He patiently and conscientiously edited my English text and translated those portions of the work that were originally written in Ukrainian.

I am very grateful to Zenon Kohut for his support and advice given in the course of many discussions about the content and structure of the book.

I have benefited considerably from discussions on various aspects of the problems treated in this book with Stephen Velychenko, the Reverend

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Borys Gudziak, Natalia Pylypiuk, and Iaroslav Isaievych, as well as with my former professor at Dnipropetrovsk University, Mykola Kovalsky, and my colleagues in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Natalia Yakovenko, Oleksii Tolochko, and Vasyl Ulianovsky.

My work on this book has been made possible by support from several institutions and charitable foundations. I wish to acknowledge particu­larly the support of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Re­search and the Ukrainian Church Studies Program at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. I have also derived great benefit from my association with the departments of History and Slavic and East European Studies at the University of Alberta, where I held a Stuart Ramsay Tompkins visiting professorship, as well as from a grant to scholars from Eastern Europe awarded by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.

I offer my sincere thanks to Dushan Bednarsky, who compiled the indeX, and to Peter Matilainen, who repeatedly helped me solve computer-related problems that arose in the course of my work on this book in Edmonton. Lada Bassa assisted me with the editing of the biblio­graphy. Special thanks are due to Ruth Parr, commissioning editor for history at OXford University Press, whose interest in my initial manu­script proposal was a great encouragement to prepare the work for publi­cation. I am also grateful to the two anonymous reviewers, whose comments were taken into account in the final revision of the manuscript. All remaining errors and shortcomings are, of course, my sole responsi­bility: the development of computer technology has eliminated the ‘insti­tution’ of typist, leaving authors with no one to blame for their errors but themselves.

In conclusion, I wish to express my profound thanks to the members of my family. This book could not have appeared without the constant as­sistance, encouragement, and self-sacrifice of my wife, Olena, and with­out the willingness of my children, Andrii and Olesia, to endure my extended absences on research trips. It is to them that I dedicate this book.