З історії західноукраїнських земель. Випуск 19

From the history of Western Ukraine / Edited and complied by Iryna Orlevych: National Aсademy of Sciences

of Ukraine, I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Lviv, 2023. Vol. 19. 262 p.

The impact of intellectual heritage on the political and cultural life of Ukrainians in Galicia in different historical periods – as part of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Polish state, and the USSR is analyzed. The heroic pages of the struggle of the members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the mass deportations of the population from Galicia in 1939–1941 are considered; the scientific work of historians of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR during the 70s - the first half of the 80s of the 20th century is characterized; the possibilities of biological weapons as a means of mass destruction, which poses a threat to the existence of humanity are revealed. The «Reviews» section is submitted, which introduces readers to new editions of Polish historiography. Instead, the «Scientific seminar» section informs about the content of the reports delivered at the seminars of the departments of the modern history of Ukraine and Ukrainian literature of the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine together with the Institute of Religious Studies – a branch of the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion. For historians, local historians and anyone interested in the history of Ukraine.