JOURNAL OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES Summer 2005 CONTRIBUTORS George L. Kline Taras D. Zakydalsky Oleksandr Melnyk Iryna Valyavko Stephen Velychenko Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/journalofukraini301cana Journal of UKRAINIAN STUDIES Volume 30, Number 1 Summer 2005 Contributors George L. Kline Taras D. Zakydalsky Oleksandr Melnyk Iryna Valyavko Stephen Velychenko Editor Taras Zakydalsky Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Editorial Board James Jacuta, Zenon E. Kohut, Andrij Makuch, David R. Marples, Marusia K. Petryshyn, Serhii Plokhy, Roman Senkus, Frank E. 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ISSN 0228-1635 Volume 30 Number 1 Summer 2005 , Contents Hryhorii Skovoroda A Conversation among Five Travellers Concerning Life’s True Happiness / 1 Oleksandr Melnyk Political Identity under Invasion: The Kherson Oblast in Summer 1941 / 47 Iryna Valyavko Notes towards an Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Chyzhevsky / 75 Review Article Stephen Velychenko 1654 and All That in 2004 / 97 Book Reviews Mykola Pavliuk and Ivan Robchuk, Ukrainski hovory Rumunii: Diialektni teksty (Andrii Danylenko) / 123 Zhanna Kovba, comp., Mytropolyt Andrei Sheptytsky: Dokumenty i materialy 1941-1944 (Andrew Sorokowski) / 129 Volodymyr Kuznietsov, Filosofiia prava: Istoriia ta suchasnist (Navchalnyi posibnyk) (Martha B. Trofimenko) / 133 Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (Marko Horbatsch) / 136 Shimon Redlich, Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukraini- ans, 1919-1945 (Serhy Yekelchyk) / 139 James O. Finckenauer and Jennifer L. Schrock, eds., The Prediction and Control of Organized Crime: The Experience of Post-Soviet Ukraine', David Mandel, Labour After Communism: Auto Workers and Their Unions in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Bohdan Harasymiw) / 141 Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus'. Volume 8. The Cossack Age, 1626-1650 (Andrew B. Pemal) / 143 John R. Staples, Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe: Settling the Molochna Basin, 1783-1861 (Heather J. Coleman) / 146 Glenn R. Mack and Joseph Coleman Carter, eds., Crimean Chersonesos: City, Chora, Museum, and Environs (Adrian O. Mandzy) / 148 Books Received / 151 Contributors George L. Kline is the Milton C. Nahm Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College and adjunct research professor of history at Clemson University, South Carolina. He is the author of Religious and Anti-Religious Thought in Russia (Chicago and London, 1968) and many articles on Russian philosophy, and the translator of V.V. Zenkovsky’s A History of Russian Philosophy (New York, 1953; reprinted New York and London, 2003) and the poetry of Joseph Brodsky and Boris Pasternak. Oleksandr Melnyk is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. His fields of specialization are twentieth-century Russia and Ukraine and social and cultural history. He is preparing a dissertation on the culture, politics, and everyday life in the Kherson region in the first half of the twentieth century. IRYNA Valyavko is a research associate of the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences of the U.S. Her field of interest is Ukrainian intellectual history. She has written several articles about Dmytro Chyzhevsky and a candidate’s dissertation “Dmytro Chyzhevsky as a Researcher of Ukrainian Philosophical Thought” (1997). Stephen Velychenko is a resident fellow at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and a research fellow at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. Currently he is editing a collection of essays on Ukraine, Russia, and the European Union and researching a book on Ukraine’s revolutions in 1914-21. Taras D. Zakydalsky is the editor of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies and Russian Studies in Philosophy. He has written a master’s dissertation and several articles on Skovoroda. 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To this end we choose friends according to our inchnation in order that we may take pleasure in sharing our thoughts with them; we achieve high rank in order that our self-esteem may be gratified by the respect of others; we devise various kinds of drink, food, and snacks to please our taste; we seek out different kinds of music, composing a multitude of concertos, minuets, dances, and contredances to delight our ears; we build fine houses, plant gardens and orchards, and weave gold brocades and fabrics, embroider- ing them with pleasingly coloured silken threads, and deck ourselves out in such garments to give pleasure to the eye and provide softness to the * This translation of “Razgovor piati putnikov o istinnom shchastii v zhizni” is based on Skovoroda’s Povne zibrannia tvoriv u dvokh tomakh (Kyiv: Naukova dumka, 1973), 1: 324-56. Page references to this edition are given in square brackets. An abbreviated version of this dialogue, translated by George L. Kline, appeared in Russian Philosophy, ed. James M. Edie, James P. Scanlan, and Mary-Barbara Zeldin with the collaboration of George L. Kline (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965; reprinted Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976, 1984), 1: 26-57. That translation was completed by Taras D. Zakydalsky. We would like to thank the University of Tennessee Press for permitting us to use the earlier translation. Skovoroda’s biblical quotations have been checked against the King James version of the Bible. All footnotes are the translators’. 2 Hryhorii Skovoroda body; we concoct fragrant spirits, powders, creams, and perfumes to gratify our sense of smell. In a word, we try to cheer up our spirit with every means we can devise. Oh, how great is the gaiety of the high-bom and prosperous in this world! In their houses the spirit hves, dissolved in joy and satisfaction. Oh, how precious you are, joy of the heart! Tsars, princes, and people of wealth pay uncounted thousands for you, while we who are poor and not prosperous nourish ourselves, as it were, from the cmmbs that fall from their tables. Just think of the triumphant splendour of the renowned cities of Europe. James: It is truly great. I have heard that nowhere are there more diversions and delights than in Paris and Venice. Athanasius: Tme, there are many over there, but until you bring them to us from Venice we shall perish here of boredom. Gregory: Stop talking nonsense, dear friends. High rank, a pleasant setting, various games and diversions, and all your many enterprises are powerless to bring joy to the spirit or to drive away the boredom that has taken possession of you. James: What then can do it? Gregory: Only one thing, and that is to discover in what tme happiness consists and then to acquire it. Athanasius: That is tme. We are bom for true happiness, and we travel toward it; our life is a road that flows like a river. James: I have long sought happiness, but nowhere have I been able to find it.