A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (18951981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine s struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in New York City, he built a network of folk dance schools and produced musical spectacles to help Ukrainian immigrants sustain their identity. His feature-length Ukrainian language films made in the 1930s with Hollywood director Edgar G. Ulmer, the king of ethnic and B movies, were shown throughout North America. Orest T. Martynowych s "The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause" is a fascinating portrait...
A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (18951981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine s struggle for independenc...
Italian anarchism emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century, during that country's long and bloody unification. Often facing economic hardship and political persecution, many of Italy's anarchists migrated to North America. Wherever Italian anarchists settled they published journals, engaged in labour and political activism, and attempted to re-create the radical culture of their homeland. Transnational Radicals examines the transnational anarchist movement that existed in Canada and the United States between 1915 and 1940. Against a backdrop of brutal and open class war--with...
Italian anarchism emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century, during that country's long and bloody unification. Often facing economic hards...
