Roman Serbyn (born 21 March 1939) is an

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, and a

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and

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history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

at the

University of Quebec at Montreal A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...

, and an expert on

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

. He currently resides in

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. Serbyn is well known for his books and many articles about

Ukrainian history The history of Ukraine spans thousands of years, tracing its roots to the Pontic–Caspian steppe, Pontic steppe—one of the key centers of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, Indo-European migrations, and early domestication of the horse, hors ...

, particularly the

Holodomor The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a mass famine in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–193 ...

.Роман Сербин
Боротьба за історичну пам'ять українського народу
// Федір Пігідо-Правобережний. «Велика Вітчизняна війна»: спогади та роздуми очевидця. «Новий Шлях», Вінніпеґ, 1954.

Biography

Roman Serbyn was born in Viktoriv,

, in 1939. In 1948, he, along with his family, moved to

. In 1960, he obtained a

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from

McGill University McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...

, and completed his

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at McGill in 1975. Serbyn began teaching history at McGill in 1969. He retired in 2002.Сербин Роман
�лектронний ресурс// Енциклопедія історії України : у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. ; Інститут історії України НАН України. — К. :

Наукова думка Naukova Dumka ( — literally "scientific thought") is a publishing house in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was established by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1922, largely owing to the efforts of Ahatanhel Krymsky, a prominent Ukrainian lingu ...

, 2012. — Т. 9 : Прил — С. — С. 537. — 944 с. : іл. — ISBN 978-966-00-1290-5.

Publications

* Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko, ''Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933'', 1986, . * Roman Serbyn, ''Holod 1921-1923 I Ukrainska Presa V Kanadi'' (translation: ''The Famine of 1921-1923 and the Ukrainian Press in Canada''), 1992,

References

A conversation with Prof. Roman Serbyn, historian
by Franya Ponomarenko, ''Den', July 18, 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Serbyn, Roman Ukrainian emigrants to Canada 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers Living people 1939 births Historians of Ukraine