Wassyl Rassewytsch

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Wassyl Wassylowytsch Rassewytsch ( Ukrainian Василь Васильсович Расевич ; scientific transliteration Vasyl 'Vasyl'ovyč Rasevyč ; born February 23, 1966 in Sadowsche , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian historian and publicist .

biography

Born in 1966 in Sadowsche in Rivne Oblast , Vasyl Rassewytsch studied history from 1986 to 1991 at the Ivan Franko University in Lviv after graduating from school in Kuchsche . From October 1990 to March 1994 he worked as political advisor to the Member of the Verkhovna Rada Ihor Juchnowskyj. This was followed by a six-month archivist activity at the Ivan Krypjakewytsch Institute for Ukrainian Studies and an assistant and lecturer position in the Department of Contemporary History at the Ivan Franko University until March 1999. In July 1996, he became professor Mychajlo Schwahuljak with his dissertation under the direction of his teacher "The Ukrainian National Democratic Party 1899-1918" doctorate. From March 1999 to March 2002 he was a doctoral student at the Iwan Franko University. From 2002 to 2007 he worked at the Krypjekewytsch Institute as deputy director, since 2007 he has been a kind of academic senior councilor or senior research fellow at the chair for contemporary history. Since August 2011, Rassewytsch has been chief editor of the socio-politically oriented, liberal first internet magazine Lembergs Zaxid.net , which was founded in 2007 .

Scientific and journalistic work

The focus of Rassewytsch's academic work is the national movement in Galicia from the 19th century to the present day. Especially after the Euromaidan , the scholar has journalistically dealt with the right-wing spectrum of contemporary Ukrainian society and politics and has published articles on this in zaxid.net and in various newspapers and magazines, of which over a dozen were translated into German in the Ukraine News appeared. Rassewytsch's texts are correlated to his further work as a political advisor and as a lecturer and speaker at the journalists' school of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UKU) and at the Lviv Institute for Urban History.

Publications (selection)

  • Українська національно-демократична партія 1899–1918 рр . Diss. L'viv 1995.
  • Україна у великій війні 1939-1945 (Ukraine in the Great War 1939-1945). Kyïv, EMMA, 2014.
  • Foreign policy orientations of Austrian Ukrainians (1912-1918) , in: Confraternitas (FS Jar. Isajevyč) = Ukraïna: kul'turna spadščyna, nacional'na svidomist ', deržavnist' 15 (2006-2007) 623–635.
  • A Habsburg king for Ukraine? Wilhelm von Habsburg and Kaiser Karl I , in: Karl I (IV), the First World War and the end of the Danube Monarchy. Vienna-Rome 2007, 223-230.
  • The West Ukrainian Republic from 1918/19 , in: Wolfram Dornik (ed.), The Ukraine: between self-determination and foreign rule 1917–1922. Graz 2011, 181–202.
  • Ukrainian identity in the changed political situation , in: DaFiU 23 (2011) 113–117, online [1] .
  • The view from the inside - occupation , ibid. 325-344. (both texts also appeared in the Ukrainian and English translations of the volume, published in 2014 and 2015, respectively)
  • Return to Europe , in: Austrian-Ukrainian Encounters. L'viv 2013, 147-157.

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personal data
SURNAME Rassewytsch, Wassyl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rassewytsch, Wassyl Wassylowytsch (full name); Расевич, Василь Васильсович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Sadowsche , Ukrainian SSR