Himka completed a series of three major studies on the history of Ukrainian Galicia in the 19th century . The first , '' Socialism in Galicia : the emergence of Polish social democracy and Ukrainian radicalism ( 1860 – 1890 ) '' was published in 1983 . The second , '' Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century '' was published in 1988 . The third , '' Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine : The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia , 1867 – 1900 '' , which is " devoted to the interrelations between church and state " , was published in 1999 . In a book review in the '' Harvard Ukrainian Studies '' , Larry Wolff described '' Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine '' as a subtle , sophisticated and insightful account of an " important and profoundly complex historical problem . " Wolff writes that Himka 's research " makes the case for a contingent and evolutionary perspective on nationality in which several different forms and inflections of national identity jostle one another in cultural competition , enhanced or diminished by various historical forces , including religion , without any predetermined outcome . " engaged with the all-important issue of national identity , makes a brilliant contribution , not just to the history of Ukrainian nationality , but also to the general theoretical understanding of modern nationalism . " Himke employs " concepts of nationality and nationalism developed by Ernest Gellner , E.J. Hobsbawm , and Miroslav Hroch . Himka observed that the " Greek Catholic case in Galicia " is " a stunningly transparent instance of how much agency and choice can be involved in the construction of nationality . " In his 2005 article , '' War Criminality : A Blank Spot in the Collective Memory of the Ukrainian Diaspora War Criminality '' he examined material that emerged from an important Ukrainian-Jewish relations conference held in 1983 , that happened to be held on the 50th anniversary of the Soviet famine of 1932 – 33 . as well as " current electronic media and recent years of '' The Ukrainian Weekly '' , supplemented with a retrospective sampling of articles from Svoboda . " At the 1983 conference , Professor Yaroslav Bilinksy ' denied " a causal connection between alleged collaboration of Jewish-born Communists in the collectivization of agriculture and the Great Famine and any proven collaboration of Ukrainian-born extremists in the Holocaust . " ' His 2009 book , '' Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians '' , was the result of ten years of research " throughout the region of the Carpathian Mountains , where he " found a distinctive and transnational blending of Gothic , Byzantine , and Novgorodian art . " In his chapter '' Ethnicity and the Reporting of Mass Murder : Krakivs ′ ki visti , the NKVD Murders of 1941 , and the Vinnytsia Exhumation '' , Himka examined how the '' Krakivs ' ki Visti '' , an " important Ukrainian nationalist newspaper " " reported on two cases of mass violence by the Soviets , the 1941 NKVD prisoner massacres and the 1943 Vinnytsia massacre . Himka wrote that '' Krakivs ' ki Visti '' " ethnicized both perpetrators and victims , ascribing primarily Jewish identity to the former and depicting the latter as almost exclusively Ukrainian . " John-Paul Himka is married to Chrystia Chomiak , Mykhailo Chomiak 's ( 1905 – 1984 ) daughter . Himka learned of Chomiak 's role as editor of the '' Krakivs ' ki Visti '' in Chomiak 's personal papers after he died in 1984 . They have two children
Vinnytsia massacre
Vinnytsia massacre
John-Paul Himka