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Date: October 27, 1997
Stalin in the Ukraine to be Discussed at the Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton, N.J. -- Professor Yuri Shapoval of Ukraine and Volodymyr Prystaiko, a major-general and the deputy director of the Ukrainian Security Service, will give a lecture entitled "Stalinism in Ukraine: The Mechanisms of Repression (1920s-30s) and of Rehabilitation (1980s-90s)" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, November 17 at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
Shapoval is the author of numerous studies on the Ukraine and the Stalin era, including Stalinizm na Ukraïni (Stalinism in Ukraine), Ukraïna 20-50-kh rokiv: storinky nenapysanoï istoriï (Ukraine from the 1920s to the 1950s: Pages from an Unwritten History), Luidyna i systema: shtryky do portreta totalitaroï doby v Ukraïni (The Individual and the System: An Attempt to Create a Picture of the Totalitarian Age in the Ukraine), and, with Prystaiko, Sprava "Spilky vyzvolennia Ukraïny": nevidomi dokumenty i fakty (The Case of the "Union for the Liberation of the Ukraine": Unknown Documents and Facts). In 1996 Shapoval won the M. Kostomarov Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, and in 1996 and 1997, the Prize of the Ukrainian Security Service.
Prystaiko has been active in the rehabilitation of the victims of Stalin in the Ukraine. He coauthored the 1991 law on "The Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression in Ukraine" and the 1992 law on "The Ukrainian Secret Service." He is a member of the board of overseers of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation and of the board of directors of the Union of Ukrainian Jurists. Like Shapoval, Prystaiko won the Prize of the Ukrainian Security Service in both 1996 and 1997.
The lecture at the School is part of a four-week tour by Professor Shapoval and Major-General Prystaiko to academic institutions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and America. A project of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, the tour is a series of three- to four-day visits during which Shapoval and Prystaiko have given presentations on their current research on the Stalin-era repressions in Ukraine, discussed Ukrainian archival sources relating to the periods, and met with faculty, researchers, and graduate students.
Their lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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