Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Stambol. Borys Hrinchenko — creator of the 'passport' of the Ukrainian nation (15.03.2025)

A lecture by historian Ihor Stambol (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) on Borys Hrinchenko and his four-volume “Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language” (1907–1909). Key points: the dictionary as the nation’s “passport” — proof of the existence of the Ukrainian language (and not a mere “dialect”) and, by extension, of the nation; the codification of the language as an act of nation-building under assimilation pressure. A source for the article on the myth that “Ukrainian is a dialect.”