Author Description

Carpatho-Ukraine in the Twentieth Century offers political memoirs and commentary by Vincent Shandor, an elder statesman who served as a Czechoslovak government official representing Carpatho-Ukraine during the years leading up to World War II. From his unique first-person perspective, Shandor analyzes the shifting political situation and legal status of Carpatho-Ukraine from the last days of the Habsburg Empire through the region's two decades as the Czechoslovak region of Subcarpathian Ruthenia and onto the wartime reoccupation by Hungary and the region's ultimate incorporation into the Ukrainian SSR as the Transcarpathia Oblast. Valuable both for its scholarly critique and memoiristic accounts of life on the ground in the late 1930s, Carpatho-Ukraine in the Twentieth Century offers new documentary evidence never before available in English about the crucial events leading up to and during World War II.