Ukrainian

The collection contains resolutions, directives and telegrams from the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party, the Soviet of People's Commissars and their mirror organizations in Ukraine; correspondence from local Party committees and executive committees of the local Soviets; official and private appeals of the regional party committees to higher Party authorities; memoranda and information reports from branches of state security, justice, and the prosecutor's office, as well as citizens letters.

The collection contains documents relating to the investigation into the assassination of Pyotr Stolypin. Stolypin (1862-1911), after having served as governor of the provinces of Grodno (1902) and Saratov (1903-1906), was appointed in April 1906 as Minister of the Interior and in July 1906 was named chairman of the Council of Ministers in which capacity he served until his assassination. He headed the Russian government at a time of massive protests by workers and peasants against the autocracy.

From the description of Professor Martin Dimnik and Librarian's Assistant Caroline Suma:

The Andry Zhuk collection contains rare publications relating to the history of the first Ukrainian political parties in the Russian Empire, the Soiuz Vyzvolenia Ukrainy (Union for the Liberation of Ukraine), the Ukrainian cooperative movement, and the Ukrainian communities outside Ukraine, principally Geneva and Vienna. The collection provides valuable historical information on the political situation and events among Ukrainians in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War.

The Mykhailo Sytnyk papers focus on the life and activities of the Ukrainian poet Mykhailo Vasylovych Sytnyk (1919-1959; pseudonym: Mykhailo Chmuryj).  He published his poetry in a number of Ukrainian journals, as well as in several poetry collections: Vid sertsia (1942), Novi obrii (1942), Vidlitaiut’ ptytsi (1946), and Zaliznychyi storozh (1947), the last a narrative poem about wartime Ukraine.  The papers include correspondence with family members and Volodymyr Vynnychenko, photographs, manuscripts, and newspaper clippings.

The Halyna Stadnyk Papers focus on the activities of several members of the United Hetman Organization [Soiuz hetmantsiv derzhavnykiv].  Halyna Stadnyk is the main recipient of the letters in this collection.  Her principal correspondents are Natalia Doroshenko and Ielysaveta Skoropadska-Kuzhim.

The author Manuguel's papers include correspondence with Myrna Kostash, a creative non-fiction writer of magazine articles, books and radio documentaries. Much of Kostash's writing is connected to her identity as a third-generation Ukrainian Canadian, a prairie-dweller, a New Leftist socialist, and a feminist.

Born in Khrotytsia, a German-speaking Mennonite colony in Southern Ukraine, David Rempel came of age during the Civil War. He immigrated to Canada in 1923 and then went on to study and live in the United States. He spent his career as an historian and teacher preserving the vanishing culture of the Mennonites in Russia and Ukraine. The collection consists of Rempel's documents, including correspondence, mainly pertaining to Mennonite history in pre-revolutionary Russia, and the effects of the Maknovshchyna and the emigration to North America.

The Potichnyi collection includes German, Polish, Ukrainian, KGB and other documents related to the Ukrainian underground movement. Also included are extensive correspondence, clippings and other documents pertaining to the Ukrainian underground.

The Millenium Collection contains twenty-one liturgical and scriptural books printed in what is now Ukraine in the 17th and 18th centuries.  The books are from the estate of the late Paul M.