So popular and well received was the Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture that it has now appeared in a new, completely revised, and expanded edition. Under the editorship of Professor Paul Robert Magocsi and Dr. Ivan Pop, the encyclopedia was first published by the University of Toronto Press in late 2002. Within a year the first printing was sold out.

The newly-revised and expanded 595-page edition, which has just appeared in February 2005, includes 1,119 alphabetically arranged entries about individuals, organizations, political parties, periodicals, and events connected with the history and culture of Carpatho-Rusyns in all countries where they live.

Known by various names— Rusnaks, Ruthenians, Carpatho-Russians, Lemkos, Uhro-Rusyns, Carpatho-Ukrainians—the Carpatho-Rusyns have lived for centuries in several states, including Austria-Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union. Today their homeland is divided between Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Romania. There are also Carpatho-Rusyn communities in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Canada, and the United States. Rusyn life in all those countries figures prominently in the newly revised encyclopedia.

Among the encyclopedia's 50 new entries are descriptions of political leaders like Iosif Stalin, Miklos Horthy, and members of the Habsburg imperial family who had an impact on Carpatho-Rusyn history. Nor have the modern world and present-day interests been left out, since there are new entries on topics such as the Internet and genealogy. Of particular interest are several extensive thematic entries on archeology, art, architecture, cinema, Communism, ethnography, geography and economy, history, language, literature, nationalism, printing and publishing. In short, everything you ever wanted to know about "our people" is between the covers of the Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture.

And there is yet another bonus—fascinating descriptions of all neighboring peoples past and present who have interacted and had an impact on Carpatho-Rusyn life. Among these are Czechs, Germans, Gypsies, Jews, Magyars, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Slovaks, and Ukrainians. And finally there are thirteen large-scale maps that depict historical, geographic, religious, ethnographic, and linguistic themes related to Carpathian Rus'.

Twenty-three authors and another twenty-five advisors from several countries in Europe and North America contributed their expertise to the encyclopedia. Each entry is written in clear, easy-to-read English prose. In the words of one reviewer, D. Barton Johnson, the Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture is "an admirable work . . . that will be invaluable to historians, political scientists, and ethnographers, as well as to people of Rusyn descent in North America."

The encyclopedia is available from the publisher or from the Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center.
(Download C-RRC order form here.)