Tradícia autonómie na Karpatskej Rusi
The Heritage of Autonomy in Carpathian Rus’

Summary/Abstract: As the Soviet Union disintegrated and eventually dissolved in 1991 many of its peoples, both so-called titular nationalities and national minorities, put forth demands for independence or, at the very least, self-rule for territories that were said to be the national homeland of a given people. Among the many peoples who put forward such demands were Carpatho-Rusyns, who, together with fellow citizens of other national backgrounds, demanded autonomy, or self-rule for the region (oblast) of Transcarpathia in far western Ukraine. This essay examines from a historical perspective the question of autonomy or self-rule for Carpatho-Rusyns not only in present-day Ukraine’s Transcarpathian oblast but in all the regions of historic Carpathian Rus’. The autonomy question in Carpathian Rus’ is hardly new, but one that goes back to as long ago as 1848.

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