DOES A FOURTH RUS’ EXIST? CONCERNING CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE CARPATHIAN REGION Edited by Paul Best and Stanislaw Stepien CZY ISTNIEJE CZWARTA RUŚ? ISBN 978-83-60374-09-2 Przemyśl - Higganum 2009, s. 364

SPIS TREŚCI

Preface	9
Paul Robert Magоcsі The Fourth Rus': A NewReality In a New Europe	11
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Kevin Hannan Assimilation and Nation-Building Among East Slavs in the Carpathians: an Ethnolinguistic Perspective	27
Helena Duc'-Fajfer The Axiologizing of Ethnic Space in Lemko Cultural Texts	45
Michael Moser Did AlexandrDuchnovych Strive to Create aRusynLiterary Language?	63
Valerii Padiak The Reduction of the Status of the Rusyn Language to that of a Ukrainian Dialect as Part of the language policy of the USSR on the terrain after the Annexation of SubcarpathianRus'	81
Anna Pliskova Practical Aspects of the Rusyn Language in Slovakia	89
FOLK AND FOLKLORE
Mykhailo Selivachov Traditional Folk Art in Ethnically Mixed Villages in the Carpathian Region (notes for discussion)	117
Mikola Musinka VolodimirSichinsky: researcher on Ukrainian Architecture of the Carpathian Region	121
HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS LIFE
Stanislaw Nabywaniec The Greek Catholic Clergy and Lemko National Orientation	137
Stanislaw Stepien KrosnoRuś: Concerning the Dilemma of the Identity ofso-calledZamieszańcy	147
Inna Poyizdnyk Attempts of the Greek-Catholic Church and its Clergy to Influence the Formation of National Identity in the Lemko Region	157
Christian Ganzer „Ukrainian Piedmont” or Merely a „Republic for a Day”? Carpatho-Ukraine 1938/39	167
StanislavKonecny The Status ofRuthenians in the Slovak Region, to 1944	179
Marian Gajdos The Ukrainian National Council of Priasevcina (The Presov Region) 1945-1951	197
SOCIAL LIFE
Ewa Michna Methods used by Carpatho-Rusyn Leaders to Legitimize their National Aspirations in Slovakia, Ukraine and Poland IDENTITY IN DIASPORA	215
Mikhajlo Fejsa VojvodinaRusyns /Ruthenians: Proof that a Fourth Rus' Does Exist	229
Paul Best The Five St. Johns of Bridgeport	239