Spatial Awakening: Dymytrii Vyslotskii’s Maps of Carpathian Rus'

• In Event: National Awakeners in Carpathian Rus’

Abstract

This presentation follows the Lemko-Rusyn American politician Dymytrii Vyslotskii and the national project he articulated and promoted in America and Europe. Vyslotskii argued that the Lemko Region and Subcarpathian Rus’ (areas within interwar Czechoslovakia and Poland) were distinct territories within those larger countries and that they shared with each other a distinct people and political future. To persuade his audience, Vyslotskii published newspaper articles and maps through the Lemko Association. While the Russophile movement Vyslotskii belonged to has since retreated from political life, his spatial imagination continues in the Carpatho-Rusyn national movement today.

Author

• Tomash Kalynych, U of St Andrews (UK)