The experience of war: The activities of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in 1914–1918 Cover Image

Doświadczenie wojny: Działalność Towarzystwa Naukowego im. Szewczenki w latach 1914–1918
The experience of war: The activities of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in 1914–1918

Author(s): Nadiya Khalak
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: Austria-Hungary; World War I; Shevchenko Scientific Society; Vienna; Lviv

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to an overview of the Society’s activities during the First World War. The role of the deputy chairman of the society, historian S. Tomashivskyi (1875–1930), in restoring the work of the society in exile in Vienna during the Russian occupation of Galicia in 1914–1915, and in organising events after its return to Lviv is highlighted, as well as data on losses. The article focuses on the scientific work of the society’s members, which was closely linked to their political activities.

  • Issue Year: 26/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 95-117
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: English
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