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Reviews 255of the memoirs of Zygmunt Starorypiński pertaining to Szymon Konarski'sconspiracy in the Ukraine in the late 1830s, including a list of the convictedparticipants. By far the largest part of the volume is reminiscences of Polishlife in the Ukraine from about 1880 to 1920. Of these, perhaps the mostinteresting and revealing are fifty pages of the memoirs of General ZygmuntPodhorski (1891-1960) covering some of his pre-World War I recollections,and the reminiscences of Bohdan Olizar and Emil Moszyński, documentingthe events of the winter of 1917-1918 on their families' estates which signaledthe final collapse of the centuries-old, Polish-dominated social and economicorder.The volume includes some thirty old photographs, illustrating various scenesfrom the life of the Ukrainian countryside in the early twentieth century.The fourth volume of Pamiętnik Kijowski, like the preceding volumes,definitely deserve the attention of any social historian of nineteenth- and earlytwentieth-century Ukraine and Poland.MACIEJ SIEKIERSKIUniversity of California, BerkeleyUKRAINIAN NATIONALISM IN THE POST-STALIN ERA: MYTH, SYM-BOLS AND IDEOLOGY IN SOVIET NATIONALITIES POLICY. By KennethC. Farmer. Studies in Contemporary History, vol. 4. TheHague, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1980.xii + 241 pp. $36.50.Kenneth C. Farmer's study of Ukrainian nationalism after Stalin is an extremelyvaluable contribution to our understanding of the current situation inthe largest non-Russian Soviet republic. Unfortunately, the author's reluctanceto repeat information published by other scholars has resulted in a bookthat delivers considerably less than what its title implies. Instead of a survey ofUkrainian nationalism in the post-Stalin era, Professor Farmer gives us muchinteresting information and valuable insights on an issue which still awaitsdefinitive treatment.A serious problem with the work is apparent from the author's account ofhis research design (pp. 34-35): he examined the Radio Liberty "red archive"in Munich, scanned the Digest of the Soviet Ukrainian Press, and went throughall the Ukrainian samvydav documents available in the West as of 1976. Thetrouble with such an approach is that, except for the samvydav documents, theauthor depended upon someone else's selection of materials. A trip to Munichto go through the files of Radio Liberty is usually a rewarding experience, but