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CONTENTS ARTICLES On the Kyivan Princely Tradition from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries OLENAV.RUSYNA 175 Canon Law as a Field for Ecclesiastical Debate: The Sixteenth-Century Kormchaia of Vassian Patrikeev ANDREI I. PLIGUZOV 191 "Foolish Rus'": On Polish Civilization, Ruthenian Self-Hatred, and Kasijan Sakovyc DAVID A. FRICK 210 Roman Mstyslavic's Constitutional Project of 1203: Authentic Document or Falsification? OLEKSIJ TOLOTCHKO 249 DOCUMENTS "On Ukrainian Separatism": A GPU Circular of 1926 IURIISHAPOVAL 275 New Documentary Information about Maksym Bernatslíyi, A Leader of the Ukrainian Underground in Eastern Ukraine during World War II VOLODYMYR SEMYSTYAHA 303 ESSAY Ukraine and Russia in the 1930s HIROAKIKUROMIYA 327 RESEARCH NOTE The Spiritual Circle in the Secret of Secrets and the Poem on the Soul MOSHE TAUBE 342 APPRECIATIONS A Tribute to Mykhailo Frenkin OLEKSANDR P. YURENKO 356 REVIEWS Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe (Darrick Danta) 377 Oleh Shablii, ed., Sotsial'no-ekonomichna heohrafiia Ukrainy (Heorhii Bachynslcyi) 378 Mykola F. Tarasenko et al., eds., Istoriia filosofiï Ukrainy: khrestomatiia; Mykola F. Tarasenko et al., Istoriia filosofiï Ukrainy: pidruchnyk (Taras Zakydalsky) 380 Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 17, no. 1/2 (Special issue: Early Modern Ukraine) (Paul Bushkovitch) 382 Ludwig Steindorff, Memoria in Altrußland: Untersuchungen zu den Formen Christlicher Totensorge (Russell E. Martin) 384 Michael F. Hamm, Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917 (Patricia Herlihy) 386 Serhii Iekel'chyk, Probudzhennia natsiï. Do kontseptsiï istoriï ukrams'koho natsional'noho rukhu druhoi polovyny XIX st. (John-Paul Himka) 387 P. S. Sokhan, V. I. Ulianovsicyi, and S. M. Kirzhaiev, M. S. Hrushevs'kyi i Academia. Ideia, zmahannia, diial'nist' (Lubomyr Wynar) 388 Akademiia nauk Ukrainy, Arkheohrafichna komisiia, Instytut ukrainsioM arkheohrafiï AN Ukrainy, Holovne arkhivne upravlinnia pry kabineti ministriv Ukrainy, Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi istorychnyi arkhiv Ukrainy u L'vovi, eds., U pivstolitnykh zmahanniakh. Vybrani lysty do Кугу la Studyns'koho (1891-1941) (Andrzej Chojnowski) 391 Iurii I. Shapoval, Ukraina 20—50-kh rokiv. Storinky nenapysanoi istoriï; idem, Liudyna i systema. Shtrykhy do portretu totalitarnoi doby ν Ukraïni (Hiroaki Kuromiya) 393 Lucjan Dobroszycki, Reptile Journalism: The Official Polish- Language Press under the Nazis, 1939-1945 (Henry Abramson) 395 William Moskoff, The Bread of Affliction: The Food Supply in the USSR during World War II (William A. Dando) 396 Peter J. Potichnyj, ed., UPA ν svitli nimets'kykh dokumentiv (Halyna Shcherba) 397 Lucjan Dobroszycki and Jeffrey S. Gurock, eds., The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Studies and Sources on the Destruction of the Jews in the Nazi-Occupied Territories of the USSR, 1941-1945 (Karel Berkhoff) 398 Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval (Antonina Kolodii) 400 Bernard Chavance, The Transformation of Communist Systems: Economic Reform since the 1950s (Leonid Kistersky) 402 Robert В. Klymasz, ed. Radomir В. Bilash, Svieto: Celebrating Ukrainian Canadian Ritual in East Central Alberta through the Generations (Bohdan Medwidsky) 404 Andrij Makuch, Hlus' Church: A Narrative History of the Ukrainian Catholic Church at Buczacz, Alberta (Basil M. Rotoff) 406 Basil Rotoff, Roman Yereniuk, and Stella Hryniuk, Monuments to Faith: Ukrainian Churches in Manitoba (Roy R. Robson) 407 Natalia СһесһеГ, Ukrains'ke teatralne vidrodzhennia (Julie-Anne Franko) 409 Marko Pavlyshyn, ed., Stus iak tekst (Myroslav Shkandrij) 410 Catriona Kelly, History of Russian Women's Writing, 1820-1992 (Susan M. Vorderer) 411 CHRONICLE The International Association of Ukrainian Studies and Its Congresses 415 The Eighteenth International Congress of Byzantine Studies 418 BOOKS RECEIVED 422 CONTRIBUTORS Olena V. Rusyna is a researcher at the Institute of the History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine. Andrei I. Pliguzov is senior research associate at the Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences. David Frick is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Oleksij Tolotchko is a senior researcher at the Institute of the History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine. Yuri Shapoval is a division director at the Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Volodymyr Semystyaha is a docent at the LuhansTs Pedagogical Institute. Hiroaki Kuromiya is associate professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington. Moshe Taube is associate professor of linguistics and Slavic languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Oleksandr P. Yurenko is an independent researcher in Kyiv. On the Kyivan Princely Tradition from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries OLENA V. RUSYNA Commenting in the last third of the seventeenth century on the confirmation of the Lithuanian palatine Martin Gasztold in Kyiv in 1471, the compiler of the Synopsis noted: "И от того времени преславное самодержавіе киевское, Богу тако грех ради человеческих попустившу, в уничиженіе толико приїде, яко от царствія в княженіе, а от княженія в воеводство пременися."1 Although this observation was entirely correct from a factual point of view, the history of Kyiv cannot serve as an illustration of the well- known paraphrase "Sic transit gloria urbis," for even after Kyiv lost its political significance (which was determined by the presence of the "senior" Rus' prince and the metropolitan of all Rus^ it retained for several centuries its charismatic status as the "first among all cities and lands."2 This is clearly evident in sources from the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries in which Kyiv is described as the "chief city of all Rus"' (an epistle by Patriarch Nil in 1380), the "mother and head of all Rus' cities" (the trip to Constantinople in 1419 by Zosyma, deacon of the Trinity-Serhiiv Monastery), the "head of all Rus' lands" (a letter by Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas in 1427), the "glorious great city of Kyiv, mother of cities" (the Kyiv Condensed, or Volhynian Concise, Chronicle from the first half of the sixteenth century), the "blessed city, also known as the mother of cities in the Rus' land" (a charter by Patriarch Maxim, dated 1481, but in fact a late sixteenth-century forgery).3 Sebastian KTonovych expressed this idea in poetic form in his poem Roxolania (1584): Know all people that in Rus' Kyiv means as much As ancient Rome once did for all Christians.4 No wonder these ideas were frequently used in the political and ideological sphere. In the sixteenth century, in particular, the claim that Kyiv continued to be the capital of all Rus' ("był