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This extensive 2-volume edition presents hitherto unknown documents from Czech and Slovak archives, relating to the history of Carpatho-Ukraine, an autonomous state within Czechoslovakia in 1938–39.
Volume 1 features introductory materials, including Oleksandr Pahiria’s detailed 200-page essay outlining the history of the emergence of Carpatho-Ukraine (out of the land of Subcarpathian Ruthenia in interwar Czechoslovakia) and its political situation up until Adolf Hitler entrusted Hungary (on 14 March 1939) with the occupation of the region of Transcarpathia. On 15 March 1939, before the Hungarians had overrun Transcarpathia, the Diet of Carpatho-Ukraine in a symbolic gesture declared independence, approved a constitution, and elected Avhustyn Voloshyn president. Subsequently the government of Carpatho-Ukraine and many activists fled abroad to escape Hungarian repressions.
Volume 2 (over 860 pages in length) contains hitherto unknown or little known government, military, and diplomatic documents relating to Carpatho-Ukraine and drawn from Czech and Slovak archives.
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Marko R. Stech –
Oleksandr Havrosh presented a review of this book on the Radio Svoboda web site (15 March 2021). It can be read at: https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/karpatska-ukrayina-istoriya-arkhivy/31151630.html
Marko R. Stech –
Ivan Patryliak’s extensive Ukrainian-language review of this two-volume edition was published in Visnyk Kyivs’koho natsional’noho universytetu imeni Tarasa Shevchenka, Istoriia, 2 (149) / 2021, pp. 79-81.
Marko R. Stech –
Iaroslav Kovalchuk of the University of Alberta reviewed this book for East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022), pp. 271-74. Here is the link: https://ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/article/view/721/362.