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www.ukrweekly.com Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association rainian Weekly Vol. LVII No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 2,1989 50 cents Bohdan Horyn sentenced to 15 days' arrest Nationalist historian Hrusbevsky JERSEY CITY, NJ. - Bohdan focused on the March 26 elections to the Horyn, head of the Lviv branch of the new Congress of Peoples Deputies. on the road to rehabilitation Ukrainian Helsinki Union, was arrested Despite his demands Mr. Horyn was on March 15 and sentenced to 15 days' not allowed to call witnesses in his own by Dr. Roman Solchanyk (Heritage), discussed plans for the administrative arrest on charges of behalf, though his demand for legal republication of Hrushevsky's monu­ "disrupting the public order" during a representation was fulfilled and an Little more than a year after Izvestia mental "History of Ukraine-Rus' " (10 pre-election rally in Lviv three days attorney named Zholubak took over his - not Radianska Ukraina or Pravda volumes, 14 books), described as "the earlier, reported the External Represen­ defense. Ukrainy - first announced that the first synthetic work in native historio­ tation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union. Although Mr. Horyn did not deny rehabilitation of Mykhailo Hrusbev­ graphy on a European level." Mr. Horyn was picked up by two participating in and speaking at the sky, widely recognized as the father of Until recently, the history has been police officers at 9:30 a.m. at the Lviv public rally in the city's center, he modern Ukrainian historiography, had kept under lock and key in the Soviet (Kartynna) Gallery where he is em­ denied organizing the meeting, which he been set into motion, historians in Kiev Union. The participants also considered ployed and was taken to the police pre­ said was brganized by the initiative have begun to discuss plans for the publishing thematic volumes of Hru­ cinct in the city's Lenin district. There he group for the formation of a popular republication of Hrushevsky's works. shevsky's writings, which appeared in was charged with "disrupting the public front in Ukraine. Mr. Horyn's attorney The recent issue of Literaturna U- numerous journals and serial publica­ order" as a participant in the March 12 reportedly argues that the activist was kraina reports that a commission for the tions from the end of the 19th century public meeting on the upcoming all- being prosecuted simply for publicly study of Hrushevsky's works, which was through the 1920s; his correspondence union elections. voicing his opinions, which were appa­ formed last December, held its first and other archival materials deposited The police took the 52-year-old rently unpopular with authorities. After session at the Institute of History of the in the Central State Historical Archive dissident to the Lenin district's people's Mr. Horyn finished speaking, the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The of the Ukrainian SSR; and the question court where a Judge Maliarenko attorney said, the crowd still remained meeting was opened by Pavlo S. So- of a monographic study of his life and changed the charge from Article 185 gathered for a long time. khan, a deputy director of the Institute of historical views. section I to section 2 of the same article Judge Maliarenko found Mr. Horyn History and head of the newly re­ According to the Literaturna U- of the Ukrainian SSR Administrative guilty of the first charge under Article established Archeographical Commis­ kraina report, the commission resolved Code, accusing Mr. Horyn of orga­ 185 section I of the Ukrainian SSR sion of the Ukrainian Academy of to begin work simultaneously in three nizing the March 12 public meeting, Administrative Code for "disturbing Sciences. areas: reported the UHU's External Represen­ the public order" by publicly calling on Dr. Sokhan argued that the time had ^ (1) publication of a photo reprint tation. The judge based the new accusa­ citizens to boycott the March 26 elec­ finally come to free Hrushevsky from "a edition of the "History of Ukraine- tion on the testimony of six policemen, tions and slandering the regime. The art whole series of vulgar and one-sided Rus' " by the Naukova Dumka pub­ who claimed as eyewitnesses that Mr. scholar was sentenced to 15 days in distortions and labels from the times of lishers, the initial volumes of which Horyn was responsible for organizing prison, but neither his family nor Stalinism and stagnation," including should be ready in 1991; the meeting without official permission. friends were notified where he was "one of the most ridiculous accusations ^ (2) preparation of a collective The Soviet authorities in Moscow serving the sentence. — i.e., that of spying!" monograph devoted to Hrushevsky's however, had issued a decree in Fe­ Fellow activists reportedly sent tele­ The meeting, which was also attended life and historical ideas; and bruary that said no official permission grams to local government organs by a representative of the informal ^ (3) compilation of a full biblio­ was necessary for public gatherings protesting Mr. Horyn's imprisonment. Ukrainian Studies Club "Spadshchyna" graphy of his works based in part on earlier bibliographies issued in 1906 and 1929. Dzyuba, colleagues speak of perestroika's progress These decisions represent not only a major step forward in the current by Roma Hadzewycz Mr. Dzyuba, who was first to address previous leaders did not, choosing only campaign to rid the Ukrainian histori­ the capacity crowd, spoke about the to address pieces of the complete cal record of the numerous so-called NEWARK, N.J. - Literary critic changes currently under way in the picture. "blank spots," but also a significant Ivan Dzyuba, a former Soviet political USSR, focusing on Ukraine. Turning to the situation in Ukraine, political victory for the reform-minded prisoner, and three fellow intellectuals He noted, first of all, that the situa­ Mr. Dzyuba first focused on the lan­ and patriotic forces in Ukrainian so­ from Kiev told more than 300 Ukrai­ tion in the Soviet Union is due not only guage question, noting, "The Ukrainian ciety against the conservative party and nian Americans gathered here at Rut­ to the person of Mikhail Gorbachev, but language is in a state that is not worthy academic establishment. gers University on Wednesday evening, also to serious objective tactors: the of such a large nation." It must be remembered that Hrushev­ March 22, about the effects of glasnost necessity for restructuring and a crisis in "The essence of glasnost/'he said, "is sky, in addition to being Ukraine's and perestroika in Ukraine and its the economy; limitations placed on the that the people should know what is foremost historian, was also the head of prospects. cultural and educational spheres of life; happening in politics, ecology, and the the Ukrainian Central Rada in 1917 and The foursome spoke under the spon­ and stagnation in ideology. All of this like, and should be aware of the pro­ the first president of the pre-bolshevik sorship of Rutgers University, as part of has affected the society. blems. Then the people can take part in Ukrainian People's Republic. the 1989 Shevchenko Lecture Series "The principal achievement of Gor­ determining how the problems of their For more than 50 years, Soviet that has brought them first to Canada bachev and his supporters," he said, "is life will be dealt with." publications have consistently de­ and now the United States. that they realized the interrelationship He pointed out that in letters to nounced Hrushevsky both for his inter­ of all spheres of life" - something (Continued on page 10) pretation of Ukrainian history as well as Joining Mr. Dzyuba were historian his political activities. This, in spite of Raisa Ivanchenko, poet Ihor Rymaruk the fact that in 1924 Hrushevsky return­ and Dr. Mykola Zhulynsky, deputy ed to the Ukraine from emigration, was director of the Institute of Literature at elected to the Ukrainian Academy of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, and in 1929 was chosen a Sciences. member of the all-Union Academy of The speakers touched on a variety of Sciences. topics: the Ukrainian language issue, Indeed, as late as 1987, the one- the ecological movement, blank spots in volume encyclopedia "The Great Octo­ history, and trends in literature and ber and the Civil War in Ukraine," publishing. touted as a concrete example of the Also broached was the matter of what "new thinking" in historical reseprch, some in the West have perceived as Mr. described Hrushevsky as "one ol the D/yuba's rccanlalion of the views he main ideologists and leaders of the expressed in his book "Internationa­ a Kolomayets bourgeois nationalist counterrevolu­ lism or Russification?." published in the At Rutgers University during their North American tour: (from left) ivan Dzyuba, tion." West in 1968. Raisa Ivanchenko, Mykola Zhulynsky and Ihor Rymaruk. (Continued on page!) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1989 rNo. 14 cept, an attempt to separate and contra- Schifter reflects on his years Nationalist... pose the history of the Ukrainian and (Continued from page 1) Russian peoples, to show that, sup­ During the past year, three Ukrainian posedly, from time immemorial [Ukrai- as spokesman on human rights literary journals — Kyiv, Vitchyznaand nian historyjtook 'different paths'; that, Zhovten - have each reissued one of supposedly, relations between them are by Ted Okada struggle between two ethnic groups, the Hrushevsky's works, and articles de­ steeped in irrevocable and insurmoun­ News Network International Tutsis who constitute roughly 15 per­ voted to Hrushevsky have also been table enmity; that, supposedly, Ukraine cent of the population and who run the published in the Kiev press. Nonethe­ always oriented itself towards the Since Noyember 1985, Richard country, and the Hutus who are 85 less, the Ukrainian party leadership and West..." Schifter has served as the assistant " percent and who are subject to serious the conservative historians have made History, says Dr.

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