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ing research for her doctoral dissertation on young women’s health and sexual risk. She received her B.A. with honors in Political Science/International Relations from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and her M.S. in Cross-Cultural and Health Communication from Central Connecticut State University. From 1988-2000, Ms. Boj- ko worked as the research and administrative coordina tor for the Center for International Community Health Studies (CICHS) in the Department of Community Medi cine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. While at CICHS, Ms. Bojko assisted in the planning and implementation of health training programs for interna tional professionals from over fifty countries, coordinated field site placements, and conducted research on mater nal and child health issues and adolescent and women’s health and HIV/AIDS risk in Hartford, Connecticut; the Philippines; Sri Lanka; and India. Ms. Bojko is active in the Ukrainian community in Hartford, Connecticut, where she is a member of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (CYM), the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the Women’s Association for the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, and the Ukrainian National Home. Editor's Note: The article is reprinted from a journal compiled for The World of the 21st Century Woman Con ference organized by UNWLA Branch 95 at Soyuzivka, in April 2003. For a comprehensive report on the confer ence, see May 2003 issue of Our Life. BOOKS Harasymiw, Bohdan. Post-Communist Ukraine. Ed monton, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press: 2002; 469 pp., tables, bibliography, index. Hardcover and paperback Increasingly, Americans want to know more about the contemporary situation in Ukraine: its politi cal structure, its economic potential, its military strength. Where can we find answers that are compre hensive, meaningful and placed within a global con text? Go to the nearest bookstore, or your favorite on line market and order Post-Communist Ukraine. Or better yet, order directly from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. University of Alberta, Ed monton, Alberta, T6G 2EB Canada. This is a book worth having in your personal library, as well as in the local public library. It is a veritable encyclopedia on the politics of independent Ukraine. Bohdan Harasymiw, a professor of political science at the University of Calgary, writes compre hensive, thoroughly researched and carefully crafted studies. This one will probably rank as his most last ing achievement. As of this writing, Post-Communist Ukraine provides the fullest available exposition of the political processes in contemporary Ukraine in any language. Harasymiw charts the course of independ ent Ukraine within a world context, the better to un derstand, analyze, present, and predict the country's political development. He sees Ukraine not exclusively within the post-Soviet, post-totalitarian mode, but rather as one of the many emerging new countries, albeit with an as yet not fully defined political or eco nomic face. Although I find some of his conclusions a bit too pessimistic, his presentation of the situation in Ukraine is one of the best available. The author explains, "this work is meant to be an exercise in strategic intelligence, or simply political science trying to keep abreast of today's headlines" (xiii). Yet, for all its ambitious attempts to predict the future and to fully understand the present, the book succeeds primarily in its most obvious task— describing the current situation in Ukraine. It is par ticularly effective in recreating and documenting the often tortuous, yet nevertheless fascinating, course of the emergence of a full-fledged government from the shell of Soviet institutions. Within the dynamism of day-to-day politics in Ukraine, it is easy to forget the laborious crafting of government departments, the vi cissitudes of privatization in a country where private bank accounts and mortgages were unknown, the fash ioning of private schools, the introduction of such sim ple matters as utility payments and rents, and the lift ing of travel restrictions to certain cities. Harasymiw masterfully recapitulates the long debate on the consti tution, and does a very good job of explaining the vi cissitudes of the on-going economic transformation. There are useful chapters on policing, on defense and national security, and the usual discussion on the poli tics of nation building. Definitely required reading for anyone inter ested in contemporary Ukraine, and who among us is not? Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak. The Fulbright Office in Ukraine “НАШ Е Ж ИТТЯ”, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 2003 11
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