Andrusiak, Mykola

Nazva “Ukraina” [The Name “Ukraine”]

Chicago: Samostiina Ukraina, 1951. Item #1538

40 pp. Octavo (ca. 22.5 cm). In Ukrainian. Original printed blue wrappers. Series: Biblioteka “Samostiinoi Ukrainy,” vypusk 2. Reprinted from the journal Samostiina Ukraina, issues 10–11 and 12 (1950), and 1, 2, 3 (1951). Wrappers show light toning and minimal wear to edges; small corner crease. Ownership signature "Donor: M. Andrusiak" on title page.

This émigré publication investigates the etymology and historical usage of the name “Ukraine.” Rooted in philological and historiographical debates, the work rebuts the “borderland” theory advanced by some scholars and instead supports the interpretation of “Ukraina” as a synonym for krajina (country, land). Drawing on sources from Ukrainian linguistics, history, and church tradition, Andrusiak argues for the term’s integral, rather than peripheral, connotation, linking it to the notion of an ethnographic homeland—"a unified Ukrainian territory."

Mykola Andrusiak (1902–1985) was a prolific scholar and public intellectual, contributing extensively to the study of the Ukrainian national movement, the Galician-Volhynian principality, Cossackdom, and the Ukrainian church. A member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and professor at UVU and Harvard, he authored nearly 600 scholarly works across five languages.

Price: $100.00