Lev Shankovs'kyi papers
This collection contains correspondence, writings, and other materials related to the history of the Ukrainian military (1917-1921) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1942-1952). It also contains notebooks, newspaper clippings, non-military related correspondence mass mailings by organizations, autobiographical sketches, photographs, photocopies of documents in German from the 1940s, typewritten or nearprint materials from the 1930s and '40s (including conference proceedings, material on Galicia Division, copies of materials related to Pavlo Shandruk, writings by others),"Komunikat ukrains'koi spetsial'noi sluzhby" (1948), material on the "Cossack Movement", materials related to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, writings and CVs of others, materials related to the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences (UVAN), a film script in English, a holograph manuscript by "Анн Будна", and personal documents.
Lev Shankovs’kyi was a Ukrainian librarian, editor, military historian, and Shevchenko Scientific Society member born in 1903 in the village of Duliby, now in Stryi raion, L'viv oblast', Ukraine. After completing studies in L'viv and Warsaw, he taught commerce in secondary schools in Western Ukraine and Poland. A veteran of the Galician Army and the Ukrainian People's Republic Army, he was a sergeant in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and a founding member of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council. As a postwar refugee in Germany he taught at the Ukrainian Economic Institute in Munich (1946-1949). He then moved to the United States, where he worked as a librarian. He also edited the English-language quarterly Prologue (1957-1961) and the newspaper Ameryka (1968-1976). He wrote Ukrains’ka armiia v borot’bi za derzhavnist’ (The Ukrainian Army in the Struggle for Statehood, 1958) and Pokhidni hrupy OUN (The OUN Expeditionary Groups, 1958) and contributed to Istoriia ukrains’koho viis’ka (History of the Ukrainian Army, 1936 and 2nd revised edition 1953), Entsyklopedia ukrainoznavstva, and Entsyklopedia of Ukraine.
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