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254 Reviewsobscure the importance of this collection to the study of Russian and Ukrainianprinting. Virtually all of the essays are based on previously untappedmaterial and therefore go far toward substantiating and even correctinggeneral histories of printing (see p. Ill, fn. 58). Soviet studies of the bookhave become integrated into the much larger discipline of informatics andbibliology (knigovedenie or knyhoznavstvo), so that serious research in thefield requires skills associated with such disciplines as history, literature, andsocial thought. Western scholars — especially Ukrainists — must begin to paycloser attention to the work of their Leningrad colleagues.EDWARD KASINECUniversity of California, BerkeleyPAMIŞTNIK KIJOWSKI. Vol. 4. London: Orbis Books [for "KołoKijowian"], 1980. 212 pp.The history of Polish-Ukrainian relations is not a happy one. Therefore, theappearance of any publication dealing with these relations that is essentiallydispassionate and sound is welcome. The fourth, and probably final, volume ofPamiętnik Kijowski, published by the "Koło Kijowian" in London, is such awork.Established in 1953 in London, Koło Kijowian is a Polish émigré organizationof people who were in some way connected to the Right-Bank Ukrainebefore World War I. Unlike other organizations of this type, it has beenconsistently concerned with cultural rather than political aims. The organizationhas concentrated on collecting historical materials illustrating the Polishcontribution to the cultural and economic life of this part of the Ukraine,organizing lectures (often by Ukrainian specialists), and publishing worksdevoted to these questions. The organization's publishing record over theyears is quite impressive, comprising more than 60 articles, some 150 illustrations,maps, genealogical tables — altogether, over 1,000 pages of print.The materials included in the fourth volume of Pamiętnik Kijowski fall intoseveral categories. Quite expectedly, the volume devotes considerable spaceto obituaries of notable Poles from the Ukraine who have died during the lastfew years: Zygmunt Andrzejowski, Bohdan Żebrowski, Józef Olechnowicz,Ludwika Rudzka. Next come several items of interest to historians of theeighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Stanisław Sobotkiewicz's brief article onTadeusz Kosciuszko's residence in Podolia in 1790-1791; Michał Leszczyc-Grabianka's biographical note on Tadeusz Grabianka (1740-1807), a memberof a prominent Podolian family who, as a mystic, founded the sect "NewIsrael" which had an important influence on Polish messianism; and fragments