Acknowledgments
I am grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a grant that allowed me to conduct research on this book and to the University of Manitoba for providing me with study leave and grants for travel.
Without this support the book would not have been written. The University also contributed to publication costs. Canadian Slavonic Papers kindly allowed me to republish the discussion of Domontovych, which appeared in a modified version in thatjournal.Many individuals helped me along the way. In particular, I would like to thank George Grabowicz, Marko Pavlyshyn, John-Paul Himka, Walter Smyrniw, Serhy Yekelchyk, Edward Mozejko, and Marusia Petryshyn, who read parts of the manuscript at various stages and offered their comments and advice. I am also in debt toJaroslav Rozumnyj, Frank Sysyn, Zenon Kohut, and Serhii Plokhii for suggestions and answers to questions in their fields of expertise; to Stepan Yarema for stimulating my interest in Petro Karmansky and for permission to use the manuscript of the latter’s Kiltsia rozhi; and to Ievhen Nakhlik and Viktor Neborak for sharing their knowledge of literary Ukraine with me. Nevenka Koscevic, James Kominowski, and Vladimira Dzvonik at the University of Manitoba’s Dafoe Library Slavic Collection were enormously helpful in tracing sources and providing bibliographical data. Tami Kowal-Denisenko, Maryana Nikoula, and Natalia Lebedin summarized documents and helped me prepare sections of the text. The expertise of Joan McGilvray and Ron Curtis was much appreciated in preparing the manuscript for publication.
My wife Natalka Chomiak, as always, has acted as my first reader and constant adviser and encourager. Conversations with her sparked and sustained my interest in many of the issues raised in this book and continually provided insights.