Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia

Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia is a Ukrainian English-language encyclopedia in 2 volumes. Published in Toronto (Canada) in 1963, 1970, 1982, 1988. Prepared by the Shevchenko Scientific Society.[1] The editor-in-chief is Volodymyr Kubiyovych.

Publisher: Ukrainian National Association, University of Toronto Press.

The encyclopedia includes:

  • Volume 1 — 1186 pages
  • Volume 2 — 1394 pages

About

Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia is an English translation of the thematic part of the Entsyklopediya ukrayinoznavstva (which was originally published in 1949).[2] A new revised and expanded English-language edition of the great ten-volume alphabetic part was published under the title Encyclopedia of Ukraine in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, and was only completed after Kubiyovych's death. It is presently being put on-line.

Volume 1 is about history, demography, geography, language, literature.

Volume 2 is about Ukrainian law and jurisprudence, the churches, scholarship and education, libraries, archives, museums, architecture, sculpture, painting, the graphic arts, music choreography, the theater, the cinema, publishing, media, the economy, health and medicine, armed forces, Ukrainian diaspora.[2]

See also

References
  1. Concise Encyclopedia Ukraine. ISBN 978-0-8020-3261-4.
  2. Reshetar, John (1 April 1974). "Volodymyr Kubijovyc, editor. Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia. Volume 2. Prepared by Shevchenko Scientific Society". The American Historical Review. 79 (2): 555–556. doi:10.1086/ahr/79.2.555. ISSN 1937-5239.

External links.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.