The Ukrainian Diaspora (Global Diasporas)
Vic Satzewich
Language: English
Pages: 275
ISBN: 1138880035
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In this fascinating book, Vic Satzewich traces one hundred and twenty-five years of Ukranian migration, from the economic migration at the end of the nineteenth century to the political migration during the inter-war period and throughout the 1960s and 1980s resulting from the troubled relationship between Russia and the Ukraine. The author looks at the ways the Ukranian Diaspora has retained its identity, at the different factions within it and its response to the war crimes trials of the 1980s.
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peasants in 1932 and 1933. Diaspora Ukrainians, and others, have pointed out, for example, that Lazar Kaganovich, the senior official in the Soviet Ukrainian government who enforced Stalin’s edicts, was Jewish. In fact, after the war, Ukrainians in the diaspora tried repeatedly to have Kaganovich tried in absentia for the murder of Ukrainians in 1932–3 (Cesarini, 1992: 265). The Ukrainian World Congress called for the extradition of the aging Kaganovich so that he could be tried for crimes
Canada. The arguments and analysis presented in this book are not only relevant to individuals interested in the analysis of diasporas, but also to members of the Ukrainian diaspora community who are concerned about what it means to live in the diaspora in the twenty-first century. 25 2 EMIGRATION AND THE FORMATION OF A LABOR DIASPORA (1890–1914) When the Ukrainian peasant looked up, he could see above him, riding on his back, the Polish noble, the Romanian boyar, the Jewish innkeeper-lender,
detractors felt that the ‘hordes’ of Galicians, Bukovynians and Ruthenians were of decidedly inferior racial stock and that any government policy that facilitated their entry would spell ruin. In Canada, racial anxieties focused particularly on the dangers of block settlements (Osborne, 1991: 95). In 1897, the Nor’Wester newspaper wrote: It is a positive misfortune for an enlightened community to be handicapped by having a cargo of these people settled in or near it. Both economically and
training schools for communist cadres (Kolasky, 1979: 8). Others regularly attended meetings of the Comintern in Moscow. They often traveled through Soviet Ukraine, reporting back to the diaspora about the favorable conditions they had encountered. Yet others quit the diaspora and moved to Soviet Ukraine. The return movement consisted of groups of Ukrainian workers, individual Ukrainians who left Canada voluntarily and people who were 77 CLEAVAGES WITHIN THE PRE-WORLD WAR II DIASPORA deported
(Elliot, 1992: 349). Even those who had gone to Germany as forced laborers and prisoners of war feared that the Soviets would regard them as traitors (Elliot, 1992: 342). Soviet repatriation efforts inevitably involved coercion, and getting 96 THE THIRD WAVE: WORLD WAR II AND DISPLACED PERSONS the refugees to return home was an ugly business. Refugees were pistolwhipped, beaten and physically dragged from camps and loaded onto transport trains headed for the Soviet Union. The Soviets also