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Record W3030509359 · doi:10.1353/imp.2020.0009

Ivan L. Rudnytsky: Historian, Public Figure, and Political Thinker

2020· article· en· W3030509359 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Yaroslav Hrytsak

Bibliographic record

VenueAb imperio · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMilitary, Security, and Education Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUkrainianCommunismPoliticsNazismContext (archaeology)BiographyWorld War IINazi GermanyJudaismSpanish Civil WarHistoryLawClassicsPolitical scienceEconomic historyArt historyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Almost no twentieth-century historian has had as profound an influence on current Ukrainian historical writing as Ivan Lysiak-Rudnyts'kyi, aka Ivan L. Rudnytsky (1919–1984). Together with George Luckyj (Iurii Luts'kyi, 1919–2001) and Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006), he belonged to the "generation of 1919." Even though his academic career was less successful than theirs, he seems to have left behind a more lasting intellectual legacy matching his remarkable life. He was born in Vienna in 1919 and raised in interwar Lviv/Lwów – a city that was torn by ethnic tensions between Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews. Rudnytsky did not succumb to temptations of communism or fascism. He managed to flee the Soviet occupation in 1939 and survived the war under Nazi rule as a university student in Berlin and Prague. After the war he moved to the United States, where he tried to pursue an academic career in 1951–1971, until he obtained a stable position as a tenured professor in Canada. His biography is full of dramatic turns: being half-Jewish, he was blackmailed by Ukrainian nationalists under the Nazis; while in the United States, he was denounced during the MсСarthy era and refused security clearance by the CIA. His cause célèbre was a letter sent in 1967 to Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders, in which he demanded the liberalization of politics in Soviet Ukraine. These episodes set the context for the analysis of his vision of Ukrainian history. Резюме: Мало кто из историков ХХ века оказал такое глубокое влияние на современную украинскую историографию, как Иван Лысяк-Рудницкий (1919–1984). Наряду с Юрием Луцким (1919–2001) и Омельяном Прицаком (1919–2006) он относился к "поколению 1919 года". Хотя, по сравнению с ними, карьера Рудницкого была менее успешной, он оставил после себя, пожалуй, более выдающееся интеллектуальное наследие, соответствующее его насыщенной жизни. Он родился в 1919 г. в Вене и вырос в межвоенном Львове (Львiв / Lwów), раздираемом этническими противоречиями между поляками, украинцами и евреями. Рудницкий не поддался соблазну коммунизма и фашизма. Он смог бежать от советской оккупации в 1939 г. и пережил войну при нацистах в качестве студента в Берлине и Праге. После войны он перебрался в США, где пытался построить академическую карьеру в 1951–1971 гг., пока не получил постоянную профессуру в Канаде. Его биография полна драматических поворотов: как полуеврея, его шантажировали украинские националисты при нацистах; в США его преследовали в годы маккартизма, и он не прошел проверку благонадежности в ЦРУ. Противоречивую реакцию вызвало письмо с требованием либерализации политики в советской Украине, которое в 1967 г. он направил на имя Леонида Брежнева и других высших руководителей СССР. В публикуемой статье эти эпизоды воссоздают контекст для анализа исторических воззрений Рудницкого.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.055

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0070.010
Scholarly communication0.0080.007
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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