New Title on Carpatho-Ukraine

[Robert De Lossa]

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Ukrainian Research Institute
Harvard University

Carpatho-Ukraine in the Twentieth Century: A Political and Legal History.
Vincent Shandor

Carpatho-Ukraine in the Twentieth Century offers political memoirs and
commentary by Vincent Shandor, an elder statesman who served as a
Czechoslovak government official representing Carpatho-Ukraine during the
years leading up to World War II. From his unique first-person perspective,
Shandor analyzes the shifting political situation and legal status of
Carpatho-Ukraine from the last days of the Habsburg Empire through the
region¹s two decades as the Czechoslovak region of Subcarpathian Ruthenia
and onto the wartime reoccupation by Hungary and the region¹s ultimate
incorporation into the Ukrainian SSR as the Transcarpathia Oblast. Valuable
both for its scholarly critique and memoiristic accounts of life on the
ground in the late 1930s, Carpatho-Ukraine in the Twentieth Century offers
new documentary evidence never before available in English about the
crucial events leading up to and during World War II, including the Vienna
Arbitration and its aftermath, Hungarian, German, and Polish maneuvering in
the region prior to the outbreak of war, the dissolution of the
Czecho-Slovak federation and its causes, the Carpatho-Ukrainian declaration
of independence, and the juridical background to the Soviet incorporation
of the region. It also offers new insight into the extent of Ukrainian
nationhood and the debate over ethnicity in the region throughout the
period.

Dr. Vincent Shandor, head of the Carpatho-Ukrainian Representation to the
Prague Federal government during the critical period preceding and at the
beginning of World War II, was born on October 12, 1907 in Baranintsi, near
the Carpatho-Ukrainian capital of Uzhhorod. He was a direct participant in
Carpatho-Ukrainian independence following Slovakia¹s declaration of
independence and helped negotiate the path that Carpatho-Ukraine was forced
to take during these difficult years. Forced into exile by the advance of
the Red Army, he emigrated to the United States, where he has resided for
fifty years, working in the Pan-American Ukrainian Conference, the General
Secretariat of the United Nations, and the U.S. Treasury Department. He
received his Doctorate in Jurisprudence from Charles University in Prague
and undertook further study in political science at Goethe University in
Frankfurt and at Columbia University in New York.

1997. 343 pp., b&w photograph; hardcover, ISBN 0-916458-86-5.  $32.95.

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Robert De Lossa
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