Scott Eddie (1935- ) is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto, where he has taught since 1971. He is the author of three books and several dozen articles and book chapters resulting from his research on the economic history of Central and Eastern Europe.
The papers include records relating to the appointment of Chair of Ukrainian Studies.
In spring 1942, Germany began to draft occupied populations as forced laborers. Eastern workers (Ostarbeiters) were of both sexes between the ages of 15 and 60 years old. During their period of residence in the Reich, Ostarbeiters were permitted to write their relatives in the Ukraine. Their letters, however, never reached their intended destinations. Instead they were directed into a secret archive and kept "under arrest" until the early 1990s, when the entire collection was finally declassified.
The collection contains guides to 38 regional archives with descriptions of holdings from the 17th century through the publication date. It is divided in three sections: Pre-Soviet, Ukrainian Nationalist, and Soviet. Each section provides chapters on collections devoted to regional government affairs, legal institutions, educational insitutions, police, industry, and more. The guides were published in 1958-1989.
Records of the German supported provisional government of Ukraine of 1918, focusing on the government's Informer Division within the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The collection documents the Division's searches and arrests. Materials include evidence of secret agent recruitment and training as well as surveillance of Bolshevik party members. These resources also shed light on the moods of the local population.
The collection comprises material on the Prosvita Society in Kyiv which was founded on 16 May 1906. The documents describe the work of the influential Kyiv branch of this important cultural and popular educational organization originally founded in Western Ukraine in 1868. Among the goals of the society were the promotion of Ukrainian culture and language through teaching, research, publications, and the creation of reading rooms, libraries, and schools.
This collection is mostly from the National Archives of the United States, and represents a portion of documents that were seized by Allies at the end of World War II. This collection includes documents pertaining to the counter-insurgency activities of the German occupational forces.
Published guide and index to microfilms available in Robarts Library (see under: Guides to German records microfilmed at Alexandria, VA). Call number D735 .A58 (particularly vols. 28, 38, 40-41).
The Peter J. Potichnyi Collection contains two large groups of documents: those representing the insurgency and counter-insurgency in Ukraine and covering the period 1941-1954. Part one consists of insurgency documents that relate directly to the Ukrainian Liberation Movement. This collection contains documents from the Polish Ministry of Public Security (Ministerstwo Bezpieczenstwa Publicznego) for the period 1945-1948.
The second group of the Peter J. Potichnyi collection of the Counter-Insurgency documents come directly from Soviet archives. This collection covers 150,000 pages of documents, covering the activities of the NkVD-NKGB, and the MVD-MGB internal forces of the Ukrainian Okrug against the Ukrainian Liberation Movement during the years 1944-1954. After Ukraine proclaimed independence in August 1990, this archive was removed to Moscow.
The collection includes 175 newspapers and journals published in Western Ukraine (Galicia, Bukovina, Transcarpathia) during the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
A collection of 1,246 independent newspapers published in Ukraine between 1989-1996, and collected by the Central Academic Library in Kiev.