Independent Press in Ukraine, 1988-1992
Bohdan Yasinsky,
Ukrainian Area Specialist,
European Division
Table of Contents: Introduction - A-F
(1-160) - G-I (161-277) - K-N
(278-462) - O-R (463-601) - S-U
(602-733) - V-Z (734-880) - In
Poland (P1-P15) - In Czechoslovakia (Cz1) - INDEX:
Personal Name - INDEX: Place of Publication - INDEX:
Publisher - INDEX: Motto - KEY
to Library Symbols
INTRODUCTION
The Independent Press of Ukraine 1988-1992 is a list of independently-published
serials in Ukraine and also those appearing in the Ukrainian language in
Poland, the former Czechoslovakia and the NIS countries. While it is called
a union list, it encompasses only publications collected by the Library of
Congress, the Vernadsky National Library of the National Academy of Ukraine,
the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and two private research centers
in the United States: Prolog (Research Corporation) and Smoloskyp (The Ukrainian
Information Service). The list covers the period from early 1988 to the end
of December 1992, but also includes some earlier imprints, e.g., "Ukraïns'ky
visnyk."
During 1988-91, the period of Soviet demise, the Ukrainian independent
press was in the forefront of the Ukrainian independence movement and a promoter
of democracy in Ukraine. The rise of this independent press was testimony
that a normal society can develop despite decades of adverse conditions.
The range of the independent publications also testifies to the degree
of pluralism found among the Ukrainian population. The population's rejection
of chauvinism, hostility towards ethnic minorities, and authoritarian nationalism
in favor of evolutionary solutions to their problems, coupled with the introduction
of a Western-style parliamentary and multi-party democracy, is equally borne
out in the independent press. Many of the publications in this list are sponsored
by various political, social, youth, or religious organizations, and are
published for a specific purpose--to advance a political, social, or religious
goals or to promote certain specific ideas.
Each entry gives as much bibliographic information as was available to
the compiler for the collection at the Library of Congress. This information
includes title, number of issues, beginning and ending dates of publication
(if discontinued), frequency (if available), motto, place of publication,
publisher, address, telephone number(s), editors, and language if other than
Ukrainian. All titles in this catalog were examined de visu and the bibliographic
information and annotations were prepared accordingly only for titles in
the Library of Congress collections. For publications from other institutions,
their listings and holdings were accepted and entered into the catalog as
reported. Finally, we added also to this catalog titles found in Neuriadova
presa Ukraïny (Kyïv, 1991), Aleksandr Suetnov, Samizdat : bibliograficheski
ukazatel' (Moskva, Aprel' 1992) and Moskovskie kollektsii Samizdata, Spravochnik
(Moskva, 1992).
All entries are transliterated according to Library
of Congress Slavic Cyrillic transliteration rules. Geographic names
of locations on the territory of Ukraine are cited in accordance with the
present system of the U.S. Board of Geographic Names and the original publication,
using Library of Congress transliteration. A small number of titles in
this list were not available to the compiler for examination in hard copy,
and citations for them were obtained from secondary sources. They are listed
in this compilation because of their potential use as sources of information
on events and developments in Ukraine.
To assist users of this list we included indexes for personal names, places
(cities of publication), publishers, and mottoes.
The present list was prepared under the auspices of the Library of Congress's
European Division. Special gratitude is extended to Mr. David H. Kraus, Assistant
Chief of the European Division, for his encouragement, valuable advice, and
generous assistance to the project. The compiler also wishes to express special
thanks to O. Onyshchenko, Director of Vernadsky National Library, Petro Sodol
(Prolog), Osyp Zinkevych (Smoloskyp), and Ksenia Kiebuzynsky (HURI) for their
contribution for this project. To the Head of the Newspaper Division at the
Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Ms. Tetiana Borysenko, many thanks for
her diligent work and assistance in introducing the Library's collections
for the preparation of this list. I am thankful to Stephen Cranton, Computer
Specialist in the European Division, and Kenneth Nyirady, Reference Librarian
and webmaster for the European Division, for their patience in formatting
and editing the text. My special thanks go to Ms. Kateryna Konchakovs'ka
for typing, rewriting, and creating a database maintained on ProCite 2.1
and edited in WordPerfect 8.
We hope that this list, a first attempt to collect and catalog the independent
press of Ukraine, will serve as a useful guide to scholars and researchers
with a special interest in Ukrainian national affairs.
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