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The concept of "Western Ukraine" is not entirely a static one. As a valid unit of historical analysis it first appears in the late eighteenth century, when the Habsburg monarchy added Galicia (1772) and Bukovina (occupied 1774, annexed 1787) to its collection of territories; already part of the collection was the Ukrainian-inhabited region of Transcarpathia (depending on how one counts, it had been Habsburg since as early as 1526 or as late as the early eighteenth century). Of course, one can also read back certain features unifying Western Ukraine prior to the 1770s, such as the culturally formative influence on all three regions of the medieval Rus' principality, later kingdom, of Galicia and Volhynia, as well as the presence of the Carpathian mountains, which was much more than a matter of mere geology (hence the Russophiles' preferred name for Western Ukraine—Carpathian Rus'). Still, in the centuries prior to their incorporation into the Habsburg monarchy, the three regions had experienced such disparate political histories—Galicia as part of Poland, Bukovina of Moldavia, and Transcarpathia of Hungary—that there is little validity in treating them then as a historical unit.

This paper represents an attempt to study national identity in the post-Soviet context through the lens of everyday life practices. Building on ideas of banal nationalism and consumer citizenship, and with support of empirical evidence collected in l'viv, Ukraine, this paper demonstrates how national identity becomes materialized in everyday life through consumption practices and objects of consumption. While exploring objects and practices that are not originally national in scope but infused with national meanings by ordinary people, it will be shown how consumption becomes an arena for the expression and renegotiation of national self-portraits. Differences in national meanings among residents of l'viv belonging to two different language groups will highlight the diversity of ways and means by which people express their national sensibilities. By exploring national meanings in everyday consumption practices of Ukrainian citizens, this study aims to provide an alternative perspective on post-Soviet nation-building and contribute to the current debate on the position and identity of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine.

THE ANNEXATION OF WESTERN UKRAINE AND THE CONSEQUENT COLLECTIVIZATION OF AGRICULTURE IS OF INTEREST TO THE STUDENT OF THE USSR FOR TWO MAIN REASONS. FIRST, IT BROUGHT ABOUT THE MERGER OF A HIGHLY WESTERNIZED REGION WITH THE SOVIETIZED EASTERN UKRAINE, WHICH LED TO THE RE-EMERGENCE OF UKRAINIAN NATIONALISM ON A WIDE SCALE. SECOND, THE ANNEXATION UNITED, ALONG WITH WESTERN BELORUSSIA, A ZONE OF COLLECTIVIZED FARMING WITH A ZONE OF PRIVATE FARMING. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ILLOGICAL FOR COLLECTIVIZATION TO HAVE BEEN DELAYED INDEFINITELY, SINCE SUCH A DELAY MIGHT HAVE CAUSED DIFFICULTIES ON THE EAST UKRAINIAN KOLKHOZY. BUT, WHAT IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST IS HOW MUCH THE EXPERIENCE IN COLLECTIVIZING THE EASTERN OBLASTS WAS UTILIZED IN THE WESTERN CAMPAIGN; AND TO WHAT EXTENT THIS CAMPAIGN WAS CONDUCTED EITHER BY EAST UKRAINIANS OR BY PERSONNEL PREDOMINANT IN THE EAST UKRAINIAN COLLECTIVIZATION PROCESS.

Studie über die Verbindung nationaler und kommunistischer Politik auf dem Hintergrund der nationalgeschichtlichen und sozio-ökonomischen Entwicklung in der westlichen Ukraine. Mit besonderem Gewicht wird das Verhältnis der kommunistischen Parteien der West-Ukraine und Polens auf dem Hintergrund der ideologisch-politischen Auseinandersetzungen über die nationale Frage behandelt. (BIOst-Hat)

Western Ukraine comprises those areas of Ukraine annexed by the Soviet Union after September 1939. They are (1) Galicia, made up of the Soviet oblasts of Lviv, Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Drohobych (now part of Lviv oblast) and Ternopil; (2) Volynia, made up of Rivne and Volyn oblasts; (3) Bukovyna (Chernivtsi oblast); and (4) Transcarpathia (Zakarpatska oblast). In the interwar period, the Galician and Volynian territories were governed by Poland, Chernivtsi was part of Romania and Transcarpathia was ruled by Czechoslovakia. Whereas the former areas were all annexed by the USSR after the invasion of Eastern Poland in 1939, Transcarpathia became part of the Soviet Union only in June 1945.