James Mace

As the only American citizen connected with this publication, I could not pass over in silence Rostyslav Khotyn’s good words about all America has done and could do for Ukraine. However, as an American who has lived in this country for most of its current independent history, I have a somewhat...

What does one leave after oneself in our imperfect world? Thoughts, good deeds, high intentions, ripe and firm love to consciously chosen and fostered values. Then there is the example of one’s life (not everyone can do it), aimed at serving the timeless values which existed before us,...

Sovietologists in the West are habitually divided on the interpretation of the notions of totalitarianism and genocide. There have been sharp debates on both definitions and concepts. A number of scholars who received a post-secondary education during the Vietnam War regarded the US as the world...

(Continued from The Day No. 37)“WE DID NOT STOP SHORT OF SHOOTING THOUSANDS...”As mentioned earlier, the Ukrainian Independentists, the left wing of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers’ Party (led by Vynnychenko and Petliura), stepped forward with Soviet slogans. They formed a separate party...

(Continued from The Day No.36)THE UKRAINIAN QUESTION AND THE BOLSHEVIKSSuccess of the Ukrainian national cause was anything but what the Bolsheviks were after in their efforts to establish the hegemony of the world proletariat. However, before the revolution they had to demonstrate their interest...

”LONGING FOR THE POCKMARKED ONE”An outstanding son of America, a person who devoted all his lifetime to the hard work of restoring the historical truth and the national dignity of Ukraini­ans, a prominent historian, political writer and public figure, Professor James Mace went down forever in the...

The front-page article with the above headline was published on Feb. 18, 2003. Every year since then our newspaper has appealed to both readers and our fellow Ukrainians to place a lighted candle in their windows to commemorate the tragic anniversary of the Holodomor. Several years passed before...

One can only receive with amusement the recent protest from the Russian State Duma that radio and television broadcasting in Ukraine should be in Ukrainian, if only with subtitles if need be. First of all, one doubts how well this will be carried out. Quality programming in Ukrainian does not exist...

Now is the time of final exams at the university where I teach. As often happens, a young man asked about his grade on his term paper, and, as sometimes happenes, I had to say that it had some very serious problems. Part of it seemed to have been downloaded from one web site with one point of view...

Already in NATO and joining the European Union, Poland would seem to be exactly where Ukraine says that it wants to be. Moreover, the size of the Polish and Ukrainian economies were about the same at the time Communism collapsed, which would seem to indicate that they were at approximately the same...