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556 ReviewsAlthough we already have several more or less successful scholarly works on thissubject, 3 the manner in which Demkovyc-Dobrjans'kyj treats it makes his bookengaging and noteworthy. The author relied chiefly on accounts by participants inthe events. He luckily had at his disposal memoirs by almost all the main charactersof his narration: Michal Bobrzynski, Potocki's successor as viceroy; Kost'Levyc'kyj, one of his main Ukrainian partners; Ignacy Daszyriski and Leon Biliriski,two Polish politicians playing considerable roles in Vienna, the former from thesocialist camp, the latter a conservative; and, above all, Myroslav Sicyns'kyj,Potocki's assassin, the man who, by that one act, drastically influenced the history ofPolish-Ukrainian relations and of the Habsburg monarchy. 4The memoirs, together with a collection of contemporary political pamphlets,skillfully selected and balanced by the main scholarly works, 5 allowed Demkovyc-Dobrjans'kyj to compose a narration fascinating the reader. His account is rich withquotations, a method which has yielded good results, although it would have beenuseful also to consider a few more memoirs. On the Polish side, the memoirs ofKazimierz Chledowski contain characterizations of the main political leaders ofAustria and Galicia; 6 also important are those by Stanislaw Glebinski, a representativeof the Polish National Democrats, who is mentioned in the book several times. 7Among important Ukrainian memoirs are those by Jevhen Olesnyc'kyj, whosecareer was shattered by Sicyns'kyj's act (it made it difficult for him to become thedeputy speaker of the Galician Diet). 8 Demkovyc-Dobrjans'kyj may well not haveknown about the interesting and important autobiography of Leon Pininski,Potocki's predecessor and the adversary of Bobrzynski who helped bring about hisfall; not yet published, it is kept at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow.Demkovyc-Dobrjans'kyj's book begins at the moment of Piniriski's replacementby Potocki. The former, although a conservative, favored Polish nationalistgroups—National Democrats and the so-called Podolians. Hopes for an energeticsolution to the grave nationality problems with which Pininski was not able to copewere pinned on Potocki. His task was first of all to alleviate the exacerbating3In addition to the work by J. Buszko used by Demkovyc-Dobrjans'kyj, there is the latestbiography of Bobrzynski: Waldemar Lazuga, Michal Bobrzynski. Mysl historyczna adziatalnosc polityczna (Warsaw, 1982). Alas, there is no thorough monograph about theperiod. The premature death of an outstanding specialist on this problem, Jan Kozik, cut shorttwo studies on the first half of the nineteenth century. On the other hand, important facts concerningthe First World War are contained in the study of Janusz Gruchala, "Austro-Wegry asprawa ukrairiska," Studia Historyczne (Cracow), 28, no. 4 (1985): 557-76.4In addition to the account mentioned by A. Janta, one could also use the memoirs recordedby M. Sapoval: Zi spomniv Myroslava Sicyns 'koho zapysav M. Ju. Sapoval (Podebrady, 1928).5The study would have benefited by taking into account the useful biographical sketches ofsuccessive viceroys of Galicia, with abundant bibliography, in Polski Siownik Biograficzny:Jerzy Zdrada, "Pininski, Leon," vol. 26 (Wroclaw, 1981):332-37; Jozef Buszko, "Potocki,Andrzej," vol. 27 (Wroclaw, 1982):778-82; Jozef Buszko, "Korytowski, Witold," vol. 14(Wroclaw, 1968): 155-57.6Kazimierz Chledowski, Pamietniki (Warsaw, 1951).78Stanistaw Gtebiriski, Wspomnienia polityczne (Pelplin, 1939).Jevhen Olesnyc'kyj, Storinky z moho zyttja (Lviv, 1935).