About This Issue

This special issue honours Jaroslav Rozumnyj. The theme, "Creating a Modern Ukrainian Cultural Space," brings together essays from a number of disciplines and perspectives that reflect his particular interests in cultural developments, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora communities.

In This Issue

Author	Page	Title
Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj	3	Rape in Shevchenko's Trizna: Textual Fact or Theoretical Fiction?
Roman Weretelnyk	19	On Varvara Repnina's
Maxim Tarnawsky	33	Mykola Ievsha: Modernist Critic?
Vira Aheieva	45	Mykola Khvylovy and Expressionsim
Myroslav Shkandrij	61	The Rape of Civilization: Recurrent Structure in Myroslav Irchan's Prose
Nelli Prystalenko	73	Ielyzaveta Piskorska: A Rediscovered
Robert Karpiak	91	Demythifying a Universal Hero: Spryrydon Cherkasenko's Vision of Don Juan
Marko Pavlyshyn	103	The Soviet Ukrainian Whimsical Novel
Walter Smyrniw	121	The Function of Time in Lina Kostenko's Dramatic Works
Halyna Koscharsky	131	The Poetry of Kostiantyn Moskalets, Natalka Bilotserkivets, and Viktor Kordun
Larissa M.L. Zaleska-Onyshkevych	139	Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Verse Drama
Oleh W. Gerus	159	The Christian Experience in the Soviet Empire: Church-State Relations in Eastern Europe, 1917-1991
Nevenka Koscevic	181	Jaroslav Rozumnyj: A Bibliography
Contributors	193
Natalia Shostak	195	A Pioneering Oral History of Collectivization
Taras Kuzio	200	Nation Building in Ukraine and Former USSR
Borys Biletsky and Pavlo Mykhailyna	209	The First Ukrainian Historiography Textbook in Independent Ukraine
Vsevolod Naulko	214	A Fundamental Work on the Ethnography of Bukovyna
Andrij Hornjatkevych	219	What or Who Is Really a Threat to the Ukrainian language?
Book Reviews	231
Books Received	265