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SMOLIAR WINS 1998 KOVALIV PRIZE by MARTHA BOHACHEVSKY CHOMIAK Liudmyla Smoliar The Lesia and Petro Kovaliv Fund is administered by the Ukrainian National Women's League of America in accordance with the bequest of this childless couple to promote literary works in Ukrainian and scholarly books about Ukraine. The 1998 Kovaliv Prize was awarded to Liudmyla Smoliar, a Lviv trained historian who hails from Luhansk and teaches in Odesa. Ms. Smoliar wrote and published her book, The Past for the sake of the future: women's movement in Eastern Ukraine in the second half of the xixth, beginning of the xxth centuries (Odesa: Astroprint, 1998) in Ukrainian. I am writing this note in English because the book deserves a broader audience. It calls for an English translation. Women provide Smoliar's focus, but the major value of the book goes beyond women's organizations. The richness of the material, the comprehensiveness of the approach, and the evidence of the breadth of historical issues posed makes this a work on society in Ukraine, its relations with the local and central government, and its interaction with all Imperial organizations. By documenting the vast array of women's organizations -- philanthropic, self- help, anti-prostitution, educational, as well as women's clubs -- Smoliar offers evidence of the viability of a network of community organizations that constitute a civil society. Smoliar has carefully studied a trove of rich primary sources from central and regional archives of Ukraine, most hitherto totally unexplored. This careful study enabled Smoliar to create a comprehensive picture of Ukrainian society in the Russian Empire. While her chronological reach is the period from 1860 through 1917, a fair amount of her material includes the period spanning the 1830s and 1840s. In her discussion of the rise of the modern democratic movements in Ukraine, Smoliar, again drawing upon her sources, provides and integral picture of the interaction of the upper classes in Ukraine with the better known intelligentsia. Without digressing into definitions of the intelligentsia and nationalism, Smoliar nevertheless offers rich material on both topics. Smoliar's theoretical framework, while demonstrating intimate familiarity with current feminist discourse, flows from her rich archival and factual sources. She provides her view of what types of activities were evident from her perusal of the sources and suggests a typology to reflect the historical development of women in the area. A professor of history at the Odesa University of Food Technologies, Smoliar has been the first Ukrainian to offer a systematic course on the history of women in Ukraine, which she has been teaching since 1991. She has organized a number of scholarly conferences on women's studies and is currently writing a book on Ukrainian women during the period of independence, 1917-1922, based on new documentary research. The 1997 Kovaliv Prize, for literature, was shared by Yuri Andrukhovych, Sofia Maydanska and Oksana Zabuzhko. THE WEDDING BREAD - KOROVAY by MARTHA BOHACHEVSKY CHOMIAK The clay turns golden into the soul, from gold ellipses -- self-contained -- into bound softness of the dough Surviving heat that hardens crust to keep the center soft and sweet. The soul rejoices in the round, ring rising whimsical -- whimsy astounds. The gold turns softly into light -- and burstsinto a colorful delight. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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