The Gates of Dawn are a suitably grand way to enter the Baroque Beauty of the Baltics, Vilnius.
Established originally as a fortified settlement on a hilltop, by Gediminas, the city grew in the early years of the 1500s after the success of the combined Lithuanian and Polish forces against the Teutonic Knights.
Having beaten back the knights at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, in partnership with his cousin Wadislaw II of Poland, Grand Duke Vytautas set about growing Vilnius into a bustling centre of trade, religion and learning.
The Old Town retains the mediaeval street pattern and splendid University that was established in 1579.
We climbed the steps of the 13th century belfry tower for panoramic views of the city. Gediminas Hill is topped with the 15th century brick castle built by Vytautas but ruined during the Russian occupation of 1655 – 1661.
Today's version is a faithful restoration completed in the 1930s. Beneath the hill, Vilnius Cathedral stands on a spot used for pagan worship of the, by now familiar, Thunder God, Perkunas. Vytautas is buried in its crypts.
The cathedral was destroyed many times and its current edifice dates from the 1700's in the classical style. Inside is cool, light and airy. It was re-consecrated in 1989 after being used as a warehouse, gallery and concert venue during the Soviet years.
Behind the cathedral, the bright white complex of the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania was also destroyed and rebuilt over the centuries. What we see today is a rendering of its final grand manifestation, the baroque palace built in the 17th century.
It was our first taster of baroque architecture which is Vilnius' dominating architectural theme and leading to its affectionate name of 'Baroque Beauty of the Baltics'.
Europe's largest Baroque old town is a treasure trove of palaces, churches, museums and galleries.
Winding through them are the cobbled lanes of the original mediaeval streets now peppered with designer boutiques, amber jewellery sellers, bars, bistros and restaurants. Some streets have taken on a life of their own, Literati Gatve for example, which honours Lithuanian writers and thinkers with quirky motifs and artwork along its winding walls.
We meandered through some of the 13 great courtyards of the university which also boasts 15th century buildings, 300-year-old frescoes and the towering Church of (the) Saint Johns.
Closed now for the summer holidays, in term time 23,000 students attend it and bring a flair and vitality to the city's heart.
Just outside the university walls, the Presidential Palace is open to visitors to wander freely through it at weekends.
We were in town on a Friday but leaned over its walls to watch an army of gardeners make picture perfect the vibrant beds of bright begonias.
Attempting to see the city's sacred art collection, valued at 11million euros and only discovered in the 1980s after being hidden throughout the years of Soviet occupation, we took refuge from the hot sun in the Museum of Applied Art.
Of the sacred art there was no sign, but we did enjoy a collection of historical fashion dating from the 1700s to the 1960s. Its wide balcony offered a breezy picnic spot amongst the bizarre ceramics collection of strange bird-shaped figures, geometric oddities and frankly, pottery 'splats'.
Cultivated, proud and Western-looking now, Vilnius has had its share of hard times. Occupied by the Polish, Germans and Russians, its population has known years of oppression and deprivation and in the case of its Jewish community, annihilation.
Having been privileged to visit the Jewish museums and memorials in other Eastern cities such as Krakow and Prague, we eschewed a difficult visit to the Holocaust Museum and instead walked out of town along the river to its historical Antakalnis Cemetery.
Here amongst the stone and iron worked tombs and gravestones of nobles and locals, are three important memorials which each tell something of Vilnius' tale.
The largest is a wooded area of hundreds of simple headstones of named and unknown Polish soldiers. These were killed during the Polish annexation of Vilnius during 1919 and 1920, causing Kaunas to become the country's temporary capital city. The area is separate to the burial grounds of the locals and with good reason, many are still angry about its inclusion here.
In 2003 more than 2,000 bodies of the Grand Army of Napoleon were interred in the cemetery with a memorial.
The soldiers died in the area surrounding Vilnius during the disastrous, and tragic, retreat from Moscow in 1812. Their bodies had been dumped into French-dug trenches, which the victorious Russians used as mass graves due to the frozen state of the ground. Vilnius suffered under the Tsars, who closed its Catholic churches and university.
Only Russian was to be spoken after 1840, causing the city to ferment a fierce nationalist revival, ultimately successful in September 1991.
Before that, a notorious attack was carried out on local people during the 'January Events' of 1991. Soviet Army forces responded to provocative protests by using live ammunition killing 12 people and injuring nearly 1000 more.
The graves of 12 of the 14 form a moving memorial and reminder of the city's recent and dark past.
Back in the Old Town in the late afternoon heat a succession of wedding parties posed for pictures at all of the landmark sites. It prompted us to remark on the obvious absence of stag and hen parties that otherwise plague picturesque capitals in Eastern Europe. Long may this continue for Vilnius!
Early Friday evening had a sophisticated and casual feel to it as the pavements bars and swanky linen-topped tables of upmarket restaurants started to fill up with animated and well-dressed diners.
We enjoyed a cold but expensive glass of beer in one of the city's bo-ho and out-of-the-way bars before heading back on an overheated and painfully slow-moving bus.
We had spent eight hours on our feet and walked more than 10 miles across this fascinating and charming capital city.


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[streaming] Anna Gordon – Cancerian
Pubblicato da rraff il 13 ottobre 2018 13 ottobre 2018
Taken from Anna Gordon's new debut full-length album "Fern Canyon", out November 2nd 2018 via Spirit House Records.
Following in the footsteps of the folk tradition, but decidedly veering down a new path, Anna Gordon (Seattle, WA) writes ethereal folk songs laiden heavy with storyful lyrics. In an effort to express utmost vulnerability, Anna's writing speaks of intimate truths and deep, dark waters. Her life story is told through her lyrics, dealing with the muddiness of love and relationships, the struggle for self-actualization, processing death, poverty, sickness, and finding home. Her voice is hauntingly beautiful, waxing and waning between brutal power and extreme delicacy, curving artfully through the landscapes her lyrics evoke.
Though her songs are deeply personal, they are widely resonant. Feeling most at home in the natural world, her experiences are often steeped in metaphors of forests, bodies of water, and the star-studded heavens. She is influenced by her traditional folk predecessors and other folk-influenced musicians like Joanna Newsom, Joni Mitchell, Karen Dalton, Nick Drake, and Townes Van Zandt. At the age of fourteen, she picked up a guitar and began adapting the poems and lyrics she'd been writing for years into sweet little folk tunes. One year later she began playing shows, and hasn't stopped since.
Anna Gordon is known for the magnetism of her live performances. Her solo performances are captivating and immersive, able to harness the attention of an entire room with just her voice and acoustic guitar. In the realm of recording, Anna is able to manifest the scores and lush compositions heard in her head, layering vocal harmonies and other instrumentation.
Her most recent effort, "Fern Canyon", is her debut full-length album, due out Fall 2018 on Spirit House Records. Named after a lush and beautiful fern-carpeted canyon in the California Redwoods, "Fern Canyon" encourages the listener to envision one such place while listening. Through the eye of the natural world, the songs expand on universal and common experiences that happen within our tangible worlds – coming of age, inevitable death, love and heartbreak, mental & chronic health issues, homelessness, and addiction. Recorded in little wooden cabins in the Pacific Northwest, Fern Canyon is as naked and honest as they come. Anna's delicate fingerpicked guitar is masterful, and her mesmerizing voice weaves through the instrumentation with ease and grace.
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38 books about Ukraine
Anna's Shtetl
Lawrence A. Coben
Library of Congress DS135.U43D543 2007 | Dewey Decimal 947.76
A rare view of a childhood in a European ghetto.
Anna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian town on the Ros River, eighty miles south of Kiev. Held by Poland until 1768 and annexed by the Tsar in 1793 Korsun and its fluid ethnic population were characteristic of the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe: comprised of Ukrainians, Cossacks, Jews and other groups living uneasily together in relationships punctuated by violence. Anna's father left Korsun in 1912 to immigrate to America, and Anna left in 1919, having lived through the Great War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and part of the ensuing civil war, as well as several episodes of more or less organized pogroms—deadly anti-Jewish riots begun by various invading military detachments during the Russian Civil War and joined by some of Korsun's peasants.
In the early 1990s Anna met Lawrence A. Coben, a medical doctor seeking information about the shtetls to recapture a sense of his own heritage. Anna had near-perfect recall of her daily life as a girl and young woman in the last days in one of those historic but doomed communities. Her rare account, the product of some 300 interviews, is valuable because most personal memoirs of ghetto life are written by men. Also, very often, Christian neighbors appear in ghetto accounts as a stolid peasant mass assembled on market days, as destructive mobs, or as an arrogant and distant collection of government officials and nobility. Anna's story is exceptionally rich in a sense of the Korsun Christians as friends, neighbors, and individuals.
Although the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe are now virtually gone, less than 100 years ago they counted a population of millions. The firsthand records we have from that lost world are therefore important, and this view from the underrecorded lives of women and the young is particularly welcome.
The Causes of Post-Mobilization Leadership Change and Continuity: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Color Revolution in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia
Vasili Rukhadze
Vasili Rukhadze examines the factors that contributed to post-uprising leadership durability in the Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia in 2004–12, after these countries underwent their so-called "Color Revolutions." Using structured, focused comparison and process tracing, he argues that the key independent variable influencing post-mobilization leadership durability is ruling coalition size and cohesion. He demonstrates that if the ruling coalitions are large and fragmented, as in the Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, the coalitions disintegrate, thus facilitating the downfall of the governments. Alternatively, if the ruling coalition is small and cohesive, as in Georgia, the coalition maintains unity, hence helping the government to stay in power.
This study advances the debate on regime changes. By drawing a clear distinction between political leaderships that come to power as a result of popular uprisings and governments that take power through normal democratic processes, military coup, or any other means, the research offers one of the first studies on post-mobilization leadership. Rukhadze helps scholars differentiate between the factors that affect durability of post-uprising leadership from those factors that impact durability of all other political leadership, in turn equipping researchers with new tools to study power politics.
The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1
Nikolai Gogol
Library of Congress PG3333.A15 1985 | Dewey Decimal 891.733
Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, "knew how to walk upside down in our valley of sorrows so as to make it to a merry place." This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume 1 includes Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, the early Ukrainian folktales that first brought Gogol fame, as well as "Nevsky Prospekt" and "Diary of a Madman."
"It is good to have a complete collection of Gogol's tales in paperback. . . . Professor Kent has thoroughly revised Mrs. Garnett's conscientious and skillful translation, eliminating the Victorianisms of her style, correcting mistakes and pruderies of diction, and making the whole translation sound much more contemporary and alive. But he has avoided the whimsicality and 'curliness' in which some recent translators indulged, and he has not changed or suppressed anything material. He has also supplied helpful notes which are often the first annotation in English, and he has written an introduction which steers the correct middle course between making Gogol an irresponsible artist of the grotesque and proving him a documentary historian of backward Russia."—René Wellek, Yale University
Volume 2 of The Complete Tales includes Gogol's Mirgorod stories—among them that masterpiece of grotesque comedy, "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich," the wonderfully satiric "Old World Landowners," and the Cossak epic "Taras Bulba." Here also is "The Nose," Gogol's final effort in the realm of the fantastic, as well as "The Coach," "The Portrait" (in its final version), and the most influential of his Petersburg stories, "The Overcoat."
Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave: Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine
Paulina Pospieszna
Library of Congress DK4185.B38P67 2014 | Dewey Decimal 327.4380477
The role of Western NGOs in the transition of postcommunist nations to democracy has been well documented. In this study, Paulina Pospieszna follows a different trajectory, examining the role of a former aid recipient (Poland), newly democratic itself, and its efforts to aid democratic transitions in the neighboring states of Belarus and Ukraine.
Belarus is widely regarded as the most authoritarian state in the region, while Ukraine is witnessing a slow, if often troubled, democratic consolidation. Each state presents a different set of challenges to outside agencies. As Pospieszna shows, Poland is uniquely positioned to offer effective counsel on the transition to democracy. With similarities of language and culture, and a shared history, combined with strong civic activism and success within the European Union, Poland's regional policies have successfully combined its need for security and a motivation to spread democracy as primary concerns. Pospieszna details the founding, internal workings, goals, and methods of Poland's aid programs. She then compares the relative degrees of success of each in Belarus and Ukraine and documents the work yet to be done.
As her theoretical basis, Pospieszna analyzes current thinking on the methods and effectiveness of NGOs in transitions to democracy, particularly U.S.- and European-led aid efforts. She then views the applicability of these methods to the case of Poland and its aid recipients. Overwhelmingly, Pospieszna finds the greatest success in developmental programs targeting civil society—workers, intellectuals, teachers, students, and other NGO actors.
Through extensive interviews with government administrators and NGO workers in Poland and the United States, coupled with archival research, Pospieszna assembles an original perspective on the mitigation of the 'postcommunist divide'. Her work will serve as a model for students and scholars of states in transition, and it provides an overview of both successful and unsuccessful strategies employed by NGOs in democracy assistance.
Eco-Nationalism: Anti-Nuclear Activism and National Identity in Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine
Jane I. Dawson
Library of Congress HD9698.U382D39 1996 | Dewey Decimal 333.79240947
Eco-nationalism examines the spectacular rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its substantial decline after 1991. Jane I. Dawson argues that anti-nuclear activism, one of the most dynamic social forces to emerge during these years, was primarily a surrogate for an ever-present nationalism and a means of demanding greater local self-determination under the Soviet system. Rather than representing strongly held environmental and anti-nuclear convictions, this activism was a political effort that reflected widely held anti-Soviet sentiments and a resentment against Moscow's domination of the region—an effort that largely disappeared with the dissolution of the USSR.
Dawson combines a theoretical framework based on models of social movements with extensive field research to compare the ways in which nationalism, regionalism, and other political demands were incorporated into anti-nuclear movements in Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Armenia, Tatarstan, and Crimea. These comparative case studies form the core of the book and trace differences among the various regional movements to the distinctive national identities of groups involved. Reflecting the new opportunities for research that have become available since the late 1980s, these studies draw upon Dawson's extended on-site observation of local movements through 1995 and her unique access to movement activists and their personal archives.
Analyzing and documenting a development with sobering and potentially devastating implications for nuclear power safety in the former USSR and beyond, Eco-nationalism's examination of social activism in late and postcommunist societies will interest readers concerned with the politics of global environmentalism and the process of democratization in the post-Soviet world.
Eternal People
David Milofsky
University Press of Colorado, 1998
Library of Congress PS3563.I444E74 1998 | Dewey Decimal 813.54
<i>Eternal People,/i> tells the story of Joseph Abrams, a Ukrainian Jew who finds his way to America at the end of the nineteenth-century. During a break from his studies in Russia, he returns to his shtetl in the Ukraine to find it is the target of a Cos
European Expansion and the Contested Borderlands of Late Medieval Podillya, Ukraine
Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy
Library of Congress DK508.9.P64M95 2019 | Dewey Decimal 947.7902
This book focuses on a key zone within the eastern frontier of medieval Europe: Podillya in modern-day Ukraine. Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy offers a definitive guide to the region, which experienced great cultural and religious diversity, together with a continuous influx of newcomers. This is where Christian farmers met Muslim nomads. This is where German town residents and Polish nobles met urban Armenians and Tatars serving in the military. Podillya offers a unique opportunity to see interaction of so many peoples, principalities, and cultures – the eastern frontier of Europe at its most dynamic.
Festive Ukrainian Cooking
Marta Pisetska Farley
Library of Congress TX723.3.F37 1990 | Dewey Decimal 641.594771
More than a cookbook, Festive Ukrainian Cooking is also a definitive account of traditional Ukrainian culture as perpetuated in family rituals and lovingly celebrated with elegantly prepared food and drink.
From Citizens to Subjects: City, State, and the Enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus
Curtis G. Murphy
Library of Congress DK4349.4.M87 2018 | Dewey Decimal 947.0009033
From Citizens to Subjects challenges the common assertion in historiography that Enlightenment-era centralization and rationalization brought progress and prosperity to all European states, arguing instead that centralization failed to improve the socioeconomic position of urban residents in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over a hundred-year period.
Murphy examines the government of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the several imperial administrations that replaced it after the Partitions, comparing and contrasting their relationships with local citizenry, minority communities, and nobles who enjoyed considerable autonomy in their management of the cities of present-day Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. He shows how the failure of Enlightenment-era reform was a direct result of the inherent defects in the reformers' visions, rather than from sabotage by shortsighted local residents. Reform in Poland-Lithuania effectively destroyed the existing system of complexities and imprecisions that had allowed certain towns to flourish, while also fostering a culture of self-government and civic republicanism among city citizens of all ranks and religions. By the mid-nineteenth century, the increasingly immobile post-Enlightenment state had transformed activist citizens into largely powerless subjects without conferring the promised material and economic benefits of centralization.
The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941: A Sourcebook
Edited by Ksenya Kiebuzinski and Alexander Motyl
Library of Congress DK508.833.G74 2017 | Dewey Decimal 947.7084
After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, executed a staggering number of political prisoners in Western Ukraine-somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000-in the space of eight days, in one of the greatest atrocities perpetrated by the Soviet state. Yet the Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941 is largely unknown. This sourcebook aims to change that, offering detailed scholarly analysis, eyewitness testimonies and profiles of known victims, and a selection of fiction, memoirs, and poetry that testifies to the lasting impact of the massacre in the collective memory of Ukrainians.
Greetings from Novorossiya: Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine
Pieniazek
Library of Congress DK508.852.P5413 2017 | Dewey Decimal 947.7086
Introduction by Timothy Snyder
Polish journalist Pawel Pieniazek was among the first journalists to enter the war-torn region of eastern Ukraine and Greetings from Novorossiya is his vivid firsthand account of the conflict. He was the first reporter to reach the scene when Russian troops in Ukraine accidentally shot down a civilian airliner, killing all 298 people aboard. Unlike Western journalists, his fluency in both Ukrainian and Russian granted him access and the ability to move among all sides in the conflict. With powerful color photos, telling interviews from the local population, and brilliant reportage, Pieniazek's account documents these dramatic events as they transpired.
This unique firsthand view of history in the making brings to life the tragedy of Ukraine for a Western audience. Historian Timothy Snyder provides wider context in his superb introduction and explores the significance of this ongoing conflict at the border of East and West.
Harvest of Despair
Karel C. Berkhoff
Library of Congress DK508.833.B47 2004 | Dewey Decimal 940.53477
Berkhoff provides a searing portrait of life in the Third Reich's largest colony. Under the Nazis, a blend of German nationalism, anti-Semitism, and racist notions about the Slavs produced a reign of terror and genocide. Berkhoff also shows how a pervasive Soviet mentality worked against solidarity, which helps explain why the vast majority of the population did not resist the Germans.
Hot Coal, Cold Steel: Russian and Ukrainian Workers from the End of the Soviet Union to the Post-Communist Transformations
Stephen Crowley
Library of Congress HD6735.15.Z65C76 1997 | Dewey Decimal 322.2
Well after the disintegration of the Communist Party and the Soviet state--and through several years of economic collapse--industrial workers in almost every sector of the former Soviet Union have remained quiescent and the same ineffective and unpopular trade unions still hold a virtual monopoly on worker's representation. Why? While many argue that labor is a central variable in the development of economic and political systems, little is known about workers in the states of the former Soviet Union since the fall of Communism. In a comparative study of two groups of industrial workers--the coal miners and steelworkers--at the end of the Soviet era, Stephen Crowley sheds light on where these workers have been and where they are going.
Coal miners in the final years of the Soviet Union effectively organized and led strikes which supported the end of Communism, even though their heavy subsidies would be threatened by capitalism. Steel workers, in contrast, did not effectively organize and strike. This pattern has continued under the new governments, with the coal miners effectively organized and seeking protection from the worst consequences of marketization, while the steel workers remain weakly organized despite deteriorating economic conditions.
Based on extensive on-site research including interviews with miners and steelworkers, labor leaders and plant managers, Crowley develops a detailed picture of the conditions under which workers organize. His findings have application beyond the conditions of post-Communist Russia and Ukraine to other societies undergoing fundamental change.
This book will be of interest to sociologists and political scientists interested in the role of labor in transitional societies, the patterns of organization of labor, as well as area specialists.
Stephen Crowley is Associate Professor of Political Science, Oberlin College.
Ice-Age Hunters of the Ukraine
Library of Congress GN772.22.R9K53 | Dewey Decimal 939.5
Isaac Babel and the Self-Invention of Odessan Modernism
Rebecca Jane Stanton
Library of Congress PG3476.B2Z799 2012 | Dewey Decimal 891.7342
In what marks an exciting new critical direction, Rebecca Stanton contends that the city of Odessa—as a canonical literary image and as a kaleidoscopic cultural milieu—shaped the narrative strategies developed by Isaac Babel and his contemporaries of the Revolutionary generation. Modeling themselves on the tricksters and rogues of Odessa lore, Babel and his fellow Odessans Valentin Kataev and Yury Olesha manipulated their literary personae through complex, playful, and often subversive negotiations of the boundary between autobiography and fiction. In so doing, they cannily took up a place prepared for them in the Russian canon and fostered modes of storytelling that both reflected and resisted the aesthetics of Socialist Realism. Stanton concludes with a rereading of Babel's "autobiographical" stories and examines their legacy in post-Thaw works by Kataev, Olesha, and Konstantin Paustovsky.
The Jewish Dark Continent
Nathaniel Deutsch
Library of Congress PJ5129.R3Z58 2011 | Dewey Decimal 947.004924
The Jews of the Pale of Settlement created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary named An-sky and his team collected jokes, recorded songs, took thousands of photographs, and created a revealing questionnaire in Yiddish, translated here in its entirety for the first time.
Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands: From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop
Amelia M. Glaser
Library of Congress PG3501.U4G57 2012 | Dewey Decimal 891.7093553
Studies of Eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language, culture, or nationality. In this highly original book, Glaser shows how writers working in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish during much of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century were in intense conversation with one another. The marketplace was both the literal locale at which members of these different societies and cultures interacted with one another and a rich subject for representation in their art. It is commonplace to note the influence of Gogol on Russian literature, but Glaser shows him to have been a profound influence on Ukrainian and Yiddish literature as well. And she shows how Gogol must be understood not only within the context of his adopted city of St. Petersburg but also that of his native Ukraine. As Ukrainian and Yiddish literatures developed over this period, they were shaped by their geographical and cultural position on the margins of the Russian Empire. As distinctive as these writers may seem from one another, they are further illuminated by an appreciation of their common relationship to Russia. Glaser's book paints a far more complicated portrait than scholars have traditionally allowed of Jewish (particularly Yiddish) literature in the context of Eastern European and Russian culture.
Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
The unrest and violence in Ukraine shocked the world, and the region's long-term future remains troublingly uncertain. Focusing on the difficulty of Kiev's transition from socialism to market democracy, this book demonstrates how Ukraine reached this turbulent point. Roman Adrian Cybriwsky delves deeply into the changing social geography of the city, recent urban development, and critical problems such as official corruption, inequality, sex tourism, and the heedless destruction of the city's historical architecture—all difficulties that have contributed incrementally to Ukrainian citizens' anger against their government. This thoroughly revised edition offers the clearest picture we've had yet of what has happened—and what is likely still to come—in Ukraine.
Lala's Story: A Memoir of the Holocaust
Lala Fishman
Library of Congress DS135.U43F574 1997 | Dewey Decimal 940.5318092
Winner of 1998 Carl Sandburg Award
Born into a middle-class Jewish family in 1932, Lala Weintraub grew up in Lvov, Poland. When the Nazis came, Lala—who had blond hair and blue eyes—survived by convincing them she was a Christian. This book tells her remarkable story. Fiercely determined and greatly aided by her Aryan looks, she managed to convince everyone—German soldiers, interrogators, fellow Poles—that she was a Polish gentile. Within a year after the Germans captured Lvov, many of Lala's family members were missing and presumed dead.
Lala's Story follows her as she moves from town to town, driven by her fear of being discovered. More than a story of survival, this is the story of a young girl's resolute struggle to defy, resist, and ultimately defeat the evil forces pursuing her.
Lessons from Russia's Operations in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine
Michael Kofman
RAND Corporation, 2017
Library of Congress DK508.852.K66 2017 | Dewey Decimal 947.7084
This report assesses the annexation of Crimea by Russia (February–March 2014) and the early phases of political mobilization and combat operations in Eastern Ukraine (late February–late May 2014). It examines Russia's approach, draws inferences from Moscow's intentions, and evaluates the likelihood of such methods being used again elsewhere.
Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934
George S. N. Luckyj
Library of Congress PG3916.2.L8 1990 | Dewey Decimal 891.7909003
Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917–1934 illuminates the flowering of Ukrainian literature in the 1920s and the subsequent purge of Soviet Ukrainian writers during the following Stalinist decade. Upon its original publication in 1956, George S. N. Luckyj's book won the praise of American and English critics, but was violently attacked by Soviet critics who labeled it a "slander on the Soviet Union." In the current political environment of glasnost, the book's findings have been acknowledged and supported by Soviet scholars. Moreover, this new critical corroboration has enabled the author to discover that the 1930s purge was more brutal than was previously estimated.
The new edition reissues Luckyj's critical work in light of current political developments and reflects the revision of previous findings. Luckyj originally drew on published Soviet sources and the important unpublished papers of a Soviet Ukrainian writer who defected to the West to describe how the brief literary revival in the Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s was abruptly halted by Communist Party controls. The present volume features a new preface, an additional chapter covering recent Soviet attitudes toward the literature of the 1920s and 1930s, and an updated bibliography.
Monuments to Faith: Ukrainian Churches in Manitoba
Basil Rotoff
Library of Congress NA5246.M3R68 1990
Ukrainians first came to Canada a century ago, seeking a new life on the western prairies. They brought with them an ancient and rich cultural tradition, deeply rooted in Christianity. The most visible symbol of this tradition is the Ukrainian church with its distinctive cupolas. As soon as the settlers were established in the new land, they began to reshape their environment by building churches in the styles they remembered from their homeland.In this richly illustrated volume, the authors trace the continuity of tradition in achitecture, art, and community life from Ukraine to the parishes of the Manitoba prairie. In a detailed examination of the exteriors and interiors of forty-nine churches, the book establishes a typology of Ukrainian church designs. Biographies of the architects, master builders, and artists are included, along with a guide to the art and architecture of a Ukrainian church.
Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921
Colin Darch
Pluto Press, 2020
Histories of the Russian Revolution often present the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 as the central event, neglecting the diverse struggles of urban and rural revolutionaries across the heartlands of the Russian Empire. This book takes as its subject one such struggle, the anarcho-communist peasant revolt led by Nestor Makhno in left-bank Ukraine, locating it in the context of the final collapse of the Empire that began in 1914.
Between 1917 and 1921, the Makhnovists fought German and Austrian invaders, reactionary monarchist forces, Ukrainian nationalists and sometimes the Bolsheviks themselves. Drawing upon anarchist ideology, the Makhnovists gathered widespread support amongst the Ukrainian peasantry, taking up arms when under attack and playing a significant role - in temporary alliance with the Red Army - in the defeats of the White Generals Denikin and Wrangel. Often dismissed as a kulak revolt, or a manifestation of Ukrainian nationalism, Colin Darch analyses the successes and failures of the Makhnovist movement, emphasising its revolutionary character.
Over 100 years after the revolutions, this book reveals a lesser known side of 1917, contributing both to histories of the period and broadening the narrative of 1917, whilst enriching the lineage of anarchist history.
Normalizing Corruption: Failures of Accountability in Ukraine
Erik S. Herron
Library of Congress JN6635.A55 | Dewey Decimal 364.132309477
Accountability is crucial to every successful democratic system. The failure to develop functioning mechanisms of accountability has undermined democratic consolidation worldwide. Reliable tools that hold officials accountable are essential for democratic governance; one of the key threats to accountability comes from corrupt practices, especially when they are integrated—or normalized—in the day-to-day activities of institutions. This book focuses on the experiences of contemporary Ukraine to evaluate the successes and failures of institutions, politicians, political parties, bureaucracies, and civil society. Yet, the topic is directly relevant to countries that have experienced democratic backsliding, and especially those countries that are at risk.
Normalizing Corruption addresses several interconnected questions: Under what circumstances do incumbents lose elections? How well do party organizations encourage cohesive behavior? Is executive authority responsive to inquiries from public organizations and other government institutions? How can citizens influence government actions? Do civil servants conduct their duties as impartial professionals, or are they beholden to other interests? The research builds upon extensive fieldwork, data collection, and data analysis that Erik S. Herron has conducted since 1999.
On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine
Sonya Bilocerkowycz
The Ohio State University Press, 2019
Library of Congress PS3602.I47O5 2019 | Dewey Decimal 814.6
In 2014 Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution. At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians' idealism, which reminds her of her own patriotic family. But when the romantic revolution melts into a war with Russia, she becomes disillusioned, prompting a return home to the US and the diaspora community that raised her. As the daughter of a man who studies Ukrainian dissidents for a living, the granddaughter of war refugees, and the great-granddaughter of a gulag victim, Bilocerkowycz has inherited a legacy of political oppression. But what does it mean when she discovers a missing page from her family's survival story—one that raises questions about her own guilt?
In these linked essays, Bilocerkowycz invites readers to meet a swirling cast of post-Soviet characters, including a Russian intelligence officer who finds Osama bin Laden a few weeks after 9/11; a Ukrainian poet whose nose gets broken by Russian separatists; and a long-lost relative who drives a bus into the heart of Chernobyl. On Our Way Home from the Revolution muddles our easy distinctions between innocence and culpability, agency and fate.
On the Current Situation in the Ukraine
By Serhii Mazlakh and Vasyl' Shakhrai, Edited by Peter J. Potichnyj
The struggle for national liberation, the freedom to develop an independent identity—these are the issues advocated with fiery eloquence in this absorbing political tract. Written in 1919 by two Ukrainian-born Bolsheviks, On the Current Situation in the Ukraine is the first impressive statement of national communism. Vasyl' Shakhrai and Serhii Mazlakh were passionate advocates of Ukrainian independence, in particular opposition to the policies of Lenin. In their view, Lenin talked about national self-determination, but in actuality his aim was to preserve the territorial integrity of the former Russian Empire and the preeminent status of Russia. On the Current Situation in the Ukraine brought its authors expulsion from the Party; and the book is still suppressed in the Soviet Union. It remains a remarkably relevant discussion of Soviet motives and the national aspirations of states living in the shadow of a great world power.
Pure Soldiers or Sinister Legion
Sol Littman
Black Rose Books, 2003
Library of Congress D757.85.L58 2003 | Dewey Decimal 940.541343
Pure Soldiers traces the 14th Waffen-SS Division's fortunes from its formation in April 1943 until its surrender to the British in May 1946, their subsequent stay as prisoners-of-war in Italy, and their eventual transfer as agricultural workers in Britain. In 1950 they began their immigration to Canada and the United States. Along the way they were recruited by the British as anti-Soviet spies and by the CIA as political assassins. In spelling out the Division's history, the author attempts to shed light on this acrimonious dispute that rages to the present day.
The Resistible Rise of Antisemitism: Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland
Laura Engelstein
Brandeis University Press, 2020
Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through control of international finance at the highest levels of commerce and money lending in the towns and villages. This tribe at the same time maneuvered to destroy the very capitalist system it was said to control through its devotion to the cause of revolution. It is easy to draw a straight line from this turn-of-the-century paranoid thinking to the murderous delusions of twentieth-century fascism. Yet the line was not straight.
Antisemitism as a political weapon did not stand unchallenged, even in Eastern Europe, where its consequences were particularly dire. In this region, Jewish leaders mobilized across national borders and in alliance with non-Jewish public figures on behalf of Jewish rights and in opposition to anti-Jewish violence. Antisemites were called to account and forced on the defensive. In Imperial and then Soviet Russia, in newly emerging Poland, and in aspiring Ukraine—notorious in the West as antisemitic hotbeds—antisemitism was sometimes a moral and political liability. These intriguing essays explore the reasons why, and they offer lessons from surprising places on how we can continue to fight antisemitism in our times.
Russian Social Media Influence: Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe
Todd C. Helmus
Library of Congress IN PROCESS
Russia employs a sophisticated social media campaign against former Soviet states that includes news tweets, nonattributed comments on web pages, troll and bot social media accounts, and fake hashtag and Twitter campaigns. Nowhere is this threat more tangible than in Ukraine. Researchers analyzed social media data and conducted interviews with regional and security experts to understand the critical ingredients to countering this campaign.
Security Sector Reform in Ukraine
Olga Oliker
Library of Congress UA829.U4O45 2016 | Dewey Decimal 355.0335477
The Maidan Revolution in Ukraine created an opportunity for change and reforms in a system that had resisted them for 25 years. This report examines Ukraine's security sector—assessing what different institutions need to do and where gaps exist—and offers recommendations for the reform of Ukraine's security and defense institutions that meet Ukraine's security needs and align with Euro-Atlantic standards and approaches.
The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause: Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko
Orest T. Martynowych
Library of Congress GV1785.A87M37 2014 | Dewey Decimal 792.8028092
The Tatars of Crimea: Return to the Homeland
Edward A. Allworth, ed.
Library of Congress DK508.9.K78T37 1998 | Dewey Decimal 323.119438804709
This new edition of Edward A. Allworth's The Tatars of Crimea has been extensively updated. Five new chapters examine the situation of Crimean Tatars since the breakup of the USSR in 1991 and detail the continuing struggle of the Tatars to find peace and acceptance in a homeland.
Contributors to this volume—almost half of whom are Tatars—discuss the problematic results of the partial Tatar return to Crimea that began in the 1980s. This incomplete migration has left the group geographically split and has complicated their desire for stability as a people, whether in their own homeland or in the Central Asian diaspora. Those who have returned to the region on the Black Sea in Ukrayina (formerly Ukraine) have found themselves engulfed in a hostile political environment dominated by Russian residents attempting to stifle the resurgence of Crimean Tatar life. Specific essays address the current political situation in and around Crimea, recent elections, and promising developments in the culture, leadership, and movement toward unity among Crimean Tatars.
Beyond demonstrating the problems of one nationality caught in a fierce power struggle, The Tatars of Crimea offers an example of the challenges faced by all nationalities of the former Soviet Union who now contend with deteriorating economic and political conditions, flagrant discrimination against ethnic minorities, and the denial of civil and human rights common in many of the newly independent states.
Contributors. Ludmilla Alexeyeva, Edward A. Allworth, Mübeyyin Batu Altan, Nermin Eren, Alan W. Fisher, Riza Gülüm, Seyit Ahmet Kirimca, Edward Lazzerini, Peter Reddaway, Ayshe Seytmuratova, Andrew Wilson
Tormented Master: A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav
Written by Arthur E. Green
Library of Congress BM755.N25G73 | Dewey Decimal 296.610924
"If Hasidism begins in the life-enhancing spirituality of the Baal Shem Tov, it concludes in the tortuous, elitist and utterly fascinating career of Nahman of Bratslav (1722–1810) whose biography and teaching Arthur Green has set forth in his comprehensive, moving, and subtle study, Tormented Master.
"Arthur Green has managed to lead us through the thickets of the Bratslaver discourse with a grace and facility thus far unequaled in the English language literature on Hasidism. Tormented Master is a model of clarity and percipience, balancing awed respect and honor for its subject with a ruthless pursuit of documented truth. . . . Tormented Master is sufficiently open to the agonies of religion in general and the issues of modern religion in particular to make Nahman a thinker utterly relevant to our time.
"Nahman of Bratslav is unique in the history of Judaism, Green emphasizes, for having made the individual's quest for intimacy with God the center of the religious way. He was a Kierkegaard before his time, believing in the utter abandon of the life of faith and the risk of paradoxicality. . . . He was, more than all others, the predecessor of Kafka, whose tales, like Nahman's, have no explicit key and rankle, flush and irritate the spirit, compelling us—even in our failure to understand—to acknowledge their potency and challenge."
Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland
Karl Schlögel
Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against oligarchical corruption, the game has become one of life and death.
In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schlögel presents a picture of a country which lies on Europe's borderland and in Russia's shadow. In recent years, Ukraine has been faced, along with Western Europe, with the political conundrum resulting from Russia's actions and the ongoing Information War. As well as exploring this present-day confrontation, Schlögel provides detailed, fascinating historical portraits of a panoply of Ukraine's major cities: Lviv, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, and Yalta—cities whose often troubled and war-torn histories are as varied as the nationalities and cultures which have made them what they are today, survivors with very particular identities and aspirations. Schlögel feels the pulse of life in these cities, analyzing their more recent pasts and their challenges for the future.
Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict
Yuliya Yurchenko
From the Orange Revolution to Euromaidan, Ukraine has been in turmoil for decades. With Russia now threatening its borders and with simmering civil unrest, the country's stability hangs by a thread. In Ukraine and the Empire of Capital, Yuliya Yurchenko analyzes these dramatic events through the lens of the country's post-Soviet past. Providing distinctive and unexplored reflections on the origins of the conflict, Yurchenko challenges the four central myths that underlie Ukraine's post-Soviet reality: the myth of transition, the myth of democracy, the myth of two Ukraines, and the myth of the other. With a particular focus on Ukraine's relations with the United States, European Union, and Russia, Yurchenko provides the first deep study of contemporary Ukrainian political economy from a Marxist perspective.
The Ukrainian West
William Jay Risch
Library of Congress DK508.95.L86R57 2011 | Dewey Decimal 947.79
Months before crowds in Moscow dismantled monuments to Lenin, residents of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv toppled theirs. Risch argues that Soviet politics of empire created this anti-Soviet city, and that opposition from the periphery as much as from the imperial center was instrumental in unraveling the Soviet Union.
Unbroken Ties: The State, Interest Associations, and Corporatism in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Paul Kubicek
Library of Congress JN6635.K8 1999 | Dewey Decimal 320.947709049
Unbroken Ties examines the relationship between the state and economic interest groups representing labor, capital, and agriculture in Ukraine. The author argues that the absence of "civil society" helps to explain why, in Ukraine, the much-anticipated transition to democracy and the market has not yet been achieved.
Since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, there has been a spate of books--optimistic at first--highlighting the transitions to democracy in these countries and the leading role of "civil society" in pushing forward political and economic reform. This study explains why this transition did not take place as anticipated. In essence, organized labor in Ukraine is weak and has been co-opted by the state; in the meantime, leading groups of industrialists and agricultural collectives have strong political influence and shape policies in accordance with their interests. This is very similar to the situation in Russia.
In contrast to works that implicitly assume a pluralist model of development for state-society relations, Unbroken Ties employs corporatism as the basic organizing structure for the study of state-interest group relations in post-Soviet Ukraine. Finding that much of the Soviet "residue" still functions in Ukraine, it argues that a form of state corporatism, which envisions a major role for the state in structuring and controlling interest associations, captures much of the post-Soviet Ukrainian reality. Old groups persist and prosper due to a variety of ties with state elites, whereas new and independent groups find themselves marginalized.
This book will appeal to political scientists, economists, and sociologists studying the transformation of post-communist societies, as well as those interested in the broader, more comparative aspects of democratization and economic reform.
Paul Kubicek is Kenneth Boulding Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder.
The Causes of Post-Mobilization Leadership Change and Continuity
A Comparative Analysis of Post-Color Revolution in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia
Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave
Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine
Eco-Nationalism
Anti-Nuclear Activism and National Identity in Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine
From Citizens to Subjects
City, State, and the Enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus
The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941
A Sourcebook
Greetings from Novorossiya
Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine
Hot Coal, Cold Steel
Russian and Ukrainian Workers from the End of the Soviet Union to the Post-Communist Transformations
Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands
From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop
Lala's Story
A Memoir of the Holocaust
Monuments to Faith
Ukrainian Churches in Manitoba
Normalizing Corruption
Failures of Accountability in Ukraine
On Our Way Home from the Revolution
Reflections on Ukraine
The Resistible Rise of Antisemitism
Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland
Russian Social Media Influence
Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe
The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause
Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko
The Tatars of Crimea
Return to the Homeland
Tormented Master
A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav
A Nation on the Borderland
Ukraine and the Empire of Capital
From Marketisation to Armed Conflict
Unbroken Ties
The State, Interest Associations, and Corporatism in Post-Soviet Ukraine


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package componentconfig

import (
	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
)

// ClientConnectionConfiguration contains details for constructing a client.
type ClientConnectionConfiguration struct {
	// kubeConfigFile is the path to a kubeconfig file.
	KubeConfigFile string
	// acceptContentTypes defines the Accept header sent by clients when connecting to a server, overriding the
	// default value of 'application/json'. This field will control all connections to the server used by a particular
	// client.
	AcceptContentTypes string
	// contentType is the content type used when sending data to the server from this client.
	ContentType string
	// qps controls the number of queries per second allowed for this connection.
	QPS float32
	// burst allows extra queries to accumulate when a client is exceeding its rate.
	Burst int
}

// KubeProxyIPTablesConfiguration contains iptables-related configuration
// details for the Kubernetes proxy server.
type KubeProxyIPTablesConfiguration struct {
	// masqueradeBit is the bit of the iptables fwmark space to use for SNAT if using
	// the pure iptables proxy mode. Values must be within the range [0, 31].
	MasqueradeBit *int32
	// masqueradeAll tells kube-proxy to SNAT everything if using the pure iptables proxy mode.
	MasqueradeAll bool
	// syncPeriod is the period that iptables rules are refreshed (e.g. '5s', '1m',
	// '2h22m').  Must be greater than 0.
	SyncPeriod metav1.Duration
	// minSyncPeriod is the minimum period that iptables rules are refreshed (e.g. '5s', '1m',
	// '2h22m').
	MinSyncPeriod metav1.Duration
}

// KubeProxyIPVSConfiguration contains ipvs-related configuration
// details for the Kubernetes proxy server.
type KubeProxyIPVSConfiguration struct {
	// syncPeriod is the period that ipvs rules are refreshed (e.g. '5s', '1m',
	// '2h22m').  Must be greater than 0.
	SyncPeriod metav1.Duration
	// minSyncPeriod is the minimum period that ipvs rules are refreshed (e.g. '5s', '1m',
	// '2h22m').
	MinSyncPeriod metav1.Duration
	// ipvs scheduler
	Scheduler string
}

// KubeProxyConntrackConfiguration contains conntrack settings for
// the Kubernetes proxy server.
type KubeProxyConntrackConfiguration struct {
	// max is the maximum number of NAT connections to track (0 to
	// leave as-is).  This takes precedence over conntrackMaxPerCore and conntrackMin.
	Max int32
	// maxPerCore is the maximum number of NAT connections to track
	// per CPU core (0 to leave the limit as-is and ignore conntrackMin).
	MaxPerCore int32
	// min is the minimum value of connect-tracking records to allocate,
	// regardless of conntrackMaxPerCore (set conntrackMaxPerCore=0 to leave the limit as-is).
	Min int32
	// tcpEstablishedTimeout is how long an idle TCP connection will be kept open
	// (e.g. '2s').  Must be greater than 0.
	TCPEstablishedTimeout metav1.Duration
	// tcpCloseWaitTimeout is how long an idle conntrack entry
	// in CLOSE_WAIT state will remain in the conntrack
	// table. (e.g. '60s'). Must be greater than 0 to set.
	TCPCloseWaitTimeout metav1.Duration
}

// +k8s:deepcopy-gen:interfaces=k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime.Object

// KubeProxyConfiguration contains everything necessary to configure the
// Kubernetes proxy server.
type KubeProxyConfiguration struct {
	metav1.TypeMeta

	// featureGates is a comma-separated list of key=value pairs that control
	// which alpha/beta features are enabled.
	//
	// TODO this really should be a map but that requires refactoring all
	// components to use config files because local-up-cluster.sh only supports
	// the --feature-gates flag right now, which is comma-separated key=value
	// pairs.
	FeatureGates string

	// bindAddress is the IP address for the proxy server to serve on (set to 0.0.0.0
	// for all interfaces)
	BindAddress string
	// healthzBindAddress is the IP address and port for the health check server to serve on,
	// defaulting to 0.0.0.0:10256
	HealthzBindAddress string
	// metricsBindAddress is the IP address and port for the metrics server to serve on,
	// defaulting to 127.0.0.1:10249 (set to 0.0.0.0 for all interfaces)
	MetricsBindAddress string
	// enableProfiling enables profiling via web interface on /debug/pprof handler.
	// Profiling handlers will be handled by metrics server.
	EnableProfiling bool
	// clusterCIDR is the CIDR range of the pods in the cluster. It is used to
	// bridge traffic coming from outside of the cluster. If not provided,
	// no off-cluster bridging will be performed.
	ClusterCIDR string
	// hostnameOverride, if non-empty, will be used as the identity instead of the actual hostname.
	HostnameOverride string
	// clientConnection specifies the kubeconfig file and client connection settings for the proxy
	// server to use when communicating with the apiserver.
	ClientConnection ClientConnectionConfiguration
	// iptables contains iptables-related configuration options.
	IPTables KubeProxyIPTablesConfiguration
	// ipvs contains ipvs-related configuration options.
	IPVS KubeProxyIPVSConfiguration
	// oomScoreAdj is the oom-score-adj value for kube-proxy process. Values must be within
	// the range [-1000, 1000]
	OOMScoreAdj *int32
	// mode specifies which proxy mode to use.
	Mode ProxyMode
	// portRange is the range of host ports (beginPort-endPort, inclusive) that may be consumed
	// in order to proxy service traffic. If unspecified (0-0) then ports will be randomly chosen.
	PortRange string
	// resourceContainer is the absolute name of the resource-only container to create and run
	// the Kube-proxy in (Default: /kube-proxy).
	ResourceContainer string
	// udpIdleTimeout is how long an idle UDP connection will be kept open (e.g. '250ms', '2s').
	// Must be greater than 0. Only applicable for proxyMode=userspace.
	UDPIdleTimeout metav1.Duration
	// conntrack contains conntrack-related configuration options.
	Conntrack KubeProxyConntrackConfiguration
	// configSyncPeriod is how often configuration from the apiserver is refreshed. Must be greater
	// than 0.
	ConfigSyncPeriod metav1.Duration
}

// Currently two modes of proxying are available: 'userspace' (older, stable) or 'iptables'
// (newer, faster). If blank, use the best-available proxy (currently iptables, but may
// change in future versions).  If the iptables proxy is selected, regardless of how, but
// the system's kernel or iptables versions are insufficient, this always falls back to the
// userspace proxy.
type ProxyMode string

const (
	ProxyModeUserspace ProxyMode = "userspace"
	ProxyModeIPTables  ProxyMode = "iptables"
)

// +k8s:deepcopy-gen:interfaces=k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime.Object

type KubeSchedulerConfiguration struct {
	metav1.TypeMeta

	// port is the port that the scheduler's http service runs on.
	Port int32
	// address is the IP address to serve on.
	Address string
	// algorithmProvider is the scheduling algorithm provider to use.
	AlgorithmProvider string
	// policyConfigFile is the filepath to the scheduler policy configuration.
	PolicyConfigFile string
	// enableProfiling enables profiling via web interface.
	EnableProfiling bool
	// enableContentionProfiling enables lock contention profiling, if enableProfiling is true.
	EnableContentionProfiling bool
	// contentType is contentType of requests sent to apiserver.
	ContentType string
	// kubeAPIQPS is the QPS to use while talking with kubernetes apiserver.
	KubeAPIQPS float32
	// kubeAPIBurst is the QPS burst to use while talking with kubernetes apiserver.
	KubeAPIBurst int32
	// schedulerName is name of the scheduler, used to select which pods
	// will be processed by this scheduler, based on pod's "spec.SchedulerName".
	SchedulerName string
	// RequiredDuringScheduling affinity is not symmetric, but there is an implicit PreferredDuringScheduling affinity rule
	// corresponding to every RequiredDuringScheduling affinity rule.
	// HardPodAffinitySymmetricWeight represents the weight of implicit PreferredDuringScheduling affinity rule, in the range 0-100.
	HardPodAffinitySymmetricWeight int
	// Indicate the "all topologies" set for empty topologyKey when it's used for PreferredDuringScheduling pod anti-affinity.
	// DEPRECATED: This is no longer used.
	FailureDomains string
	// leaderElection defines the configuration of leader election client.
	LeaderElection LeaderElectionConfiguration
	// LockObjectNamespace defines the namespace of the lock object
	LockObjectNamespace string
	// LockObjectName defines the lock object name
	LockObjectName string
	// PolicyConfigMapName is the name of the ConfigMap object that specifies
	// the scheduler's policy config. If UseLegacyPolicyConfig is true, scheduler
	// uses PolicyConfigFile. If UseLegacyPolicyConfig is false and
	// PolicyConfigMapName is not empty, the ConfigMap object with this name must
	// exist in PolicyConfigMapNamespace before scheduler initialization.
	PolicyConfigMapName string
	// PolicyConfigMapNamespace is the namespace where the above policy config map
	// is located. If none is provided default system namespace ("kube-system")
	// will be used.
	PolicyConfigMapNamespace string
	// UseLegacyPolicyConfig tells the scheduler to ignore Policy ConfigMap and
	// to use PolicyConfigFile if available.
	UseLegacyPolicyConfig bool
}

// LeaderElectionConfiguration defines the configuration of leader election
// clients for components that can run with leader election enabled.
type LeaderElectionConfiguration struct {
	// leaderElect enables a leader election client to gain leadership
	// before executing the main loop. Enable this when running replicated
	// components for high availability.
	LeaderElect bool
	// leaseDuration is the duration that non-leader candidates will wait
	// after observing a leadership renewal until attempting to acquire
	// leadership of a led but unrenewed leader slot. This is effectively the
	// maximum duration that a leader can be stopped before it is replaced
	// by another candidate. This is only applicable if leader election is
	// enabled.
	LeaseDuration metav1.Duration
	// renewDeadline is the interval between attempts by the acting master to
	// renew a leadership slot before it stops leading. This must be less
	// than or equal to the lease duration. This is only applicable if leader
	// election is enabled.
	RenewDeadline metav1.Duration
	// retryPeriod is the duration the clients should wait between attempting
	// acquisition and renewal of a leadership. This is only applicable if
	// leader election is enabled.
	RetryPeriod metav1.Duration
	// resourceLock indicates the resource object type that will be used to lock
	// during leader election cycles.
	ResourceLock string
}

type GroupResource struct {
	// group is the group portion of the GroupResource.
	Group string
	// resource is the resource portion of the GroupResource.
	Resource string
}

// +k8s:deepcopy-gen:interfaces=k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime.Object

type KubeControllerManagerConfiguration struct {
	metav1.TypeMeta

	// Controllers is the list of controllers to enable or disable
	// '*' means "all enabled by default controllers"
	// 'foo' means "enable 'foo'"
	// '-foo' means "disable 'foo'"
	// first item for a particular name wins
	Controllers []string

	// port is the port that the controller-manager's http service runs on.
	Port int32
	// address is the IP address to serve on (set to 0.0.0.0 for all interfaces).
	Address string
	// useServiceAccountCredentials indicates whether controllers should be run with
	// individual service account credentials.
	UseServiceAccountCredentials bool
	// cloudProvider is the provider for cloud services.
	CloudProvider string
	// cloudConfigFile is the path to the cloud provider configuration file.
	CloudConfigFile string
	// run with untagged cloud instances
	AllowUntaggedCloud bool
	// concurrentEndpointSyncs is the number of endpoint syncing operations
	// that will be done concurrently. Larger number = faster endpoint updating,
	// but more CPU (and network) load.
	ConcurrentEndpointSyncs int32
	// concurrentRSSyncs is the number of replica sets that are  allowed to sync
	// concurrently. Larger number = more responsive replica  management, but more
	// CPU (and network) load.
	ConcurrentRSSyncs int32
	// concurrentRCSyncs is the number of replication controllers that are
	// allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive replica
	// management, but more CPU (and network) load.
	ConcurrentRCSyncs int32
	// concurrentServiceSyncs is the number of services that are
	// allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive service
	// management, but more CPU (and network) load.
	ConcurrentServiceSyncs int32
	// concurrentResourceQuotaSyncs is the number of resource quotas that are
	// allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive quota
	// management, but more CPU (and network) load.
	ConcurrentResourceQuotaSyncs int32
	// concurrentDeploymentSyncs is the number of deployment objects that are
	// allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive deployments,
	// but more CPU (and network) load.
	ConcurrentDeploymentSyncs int32
	// concurrentDaemonSetSyncs is the number of daemonset objects that are
	// allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive daemonset,
	// but more CPU (and network) load.
	ConcurrentDaemonSetSyncs int32
	// concurrentJobSyncs is the number of job objects that are
	// allowed to sync concurrently. Larger number = more responsive jobs,
	// but more CPU (and network) load.
	ConcurrentJobSyncs int32
	// concurrentNamespaceSyncs is the number of namespace objects that are
	// allowed to sync concurrently.
	ConcurrentNamespaceSyncs int32
	// concurrentSATokenSyncs is the number of service account token syncing operations
	// that will be done concurrently.
	ConcurrentSATokenSyncs int32
	// lookupCacheSizeForRC is the size of lookup cache for replication controllers.
	// Larger number = more responsive replica management, but more MEM load.
	// serviceSyncPeriod is the period for syncing services with their external
	// load balancers.
	ServiceSyncPeriod metav1.Duration
	// nodeSyncPeriod is the period for syncing nodes from cloudprovider. Longer
	// periods will result in fewer calls to cloud provider, but may delay addition
	// of new nodes to cluster.
	NodeSyncPeriod metav1.Duration
	// routeReconciliationPeriod is the period for reconciling routes created for Nodes by cloud provider..
	RouteReconciliationPeriod metav1.Duration
	// resourceQuotaSyncPeriod is the period for syncing quota usage status
	// in the system.
	ResourceQuotaSyncPeriod metav1.Duration
	// namespaceSyncPeriod is the period for syncing namespace life-cycle
	// updates.
	NamespaceSyncPeriod metav1.Duration
	// pvClaimBinderSyncPeriod is the period for syncing persistent volumes
	// and persistent volume claims.
	PVClaimBinderSyncPeriod metav1.Duration
	// minResyncPeriod is the resync period in reflectors; will be random between
	// minResyncPeriod and 2*minResyncPeriod.
	MinResyncPeriod metav1.Duration
	// terminatedPodGCThreshold is the number of terminated pods that can exist
	// before the terminated pod garbage collector starts deleting terminated pods.
	// If <= 0, the terminated pod garbage collector is disabled.
	TerminatedPodGCThreshold int32
	// horizontalPodAutoscalerSyncPeriod is the period for syncing the number of
	// pods in horizontal pod autoscaler.
	HorizontalPodAutoscalerSyncPeriod metav1.Duration
	// horizontalPodAutoscalerUpscaleForbiddenWindow is a period after which next upscale allowed.
	HorizontalPodAutoscalerUpscaleForbiddenWindow metav1.Duration
	// horizontalPodAutoscalerDownscaleForbiddenWindow is a period after which next downscale allowed.
	HorizontalPodAutoscalerDownscaleForbiddenWindow metav1.Duration
	// horizontalPodAutoscalerTolerance is the tolerance for when
	// resource usage suggests upscaling/downscaling
	HorizontalPodAutoscalerTolerance float64
	// deploymentControllerSyncPeriod is the period for syncing the deployments.
	DeploymentControllerSyncPeriod metav1.Duration
	// podEvictionTimeout is the grace period for deleting pods on failed nodes.
	PodEvictionTimeout metav1.Duration
	// DEPRECATED: deletingPodsQps is the number of nodes per second on which pods are deleted in
	// case of node failure.
	DeletingPodsQps float32
	// DEPRECATED: deletingPodsBurst is the number of nodes on which pods are bursty deleted in
	// case of node failure. For more details look into RateLimiter.
	DeletingPodsBurst int32
	// nodeMontiorGracePeriod is the amount of time which we allow a running node to be
	// unresponsive before marking it unhealthy. Must be N times more than kubelet's
	// nodeStatusUpdateFrequency, where N means number of retries allowed for kubelet
	// to post node status.
	NodeMonitorGracePeriod metav1.Duration
	// registerRetryCount is the number of retries for initial node registration.
	// Retry interval equals node-sync-period.
	RegisterRetryCount int32
	// nodeStartupGracePeriod is the amount of time which we allow starting a node to
	// be unresponsive before marking it unhealthy.
	NodeStartupGracePeriod metav1.Duration
	// nodeMonitorPeriod is the period for syncing NodeStatus in NodeController.
	NodeMonitorPeriod metav1.Duration
	// serviceAccountKeyFile is the filename containing a PEM-encoded private RSA key
	// used to sign service account tokens.
	ServiceAccountKeyFile string
	// clusterSigningCertFile is the filename containing a PEM-encoded
	// X509 CA certificate used to issue cluster-scoped certificates
	ClusterSigningCertFile string
	// clusterSigningCertFile is the filename containing a PEM-encoded
	// RSA or ECDSA private key used to issue cluster-scoped certificates
	ClusterSigningKeyFile string
	// clusterSigningDuration is the length of duration signed certificates
	// will be given.
	ClusterSigningDuration metav1.Duration
	// enableProfiling enables profiling via web interface host:port/debug/pprof/
	EnableProfiling bool
	// enableContentionProfiling enables lock contention profiling, if enableProfiling is true.
	EnableContentionProfiling bool
	// clusterName is the instance prefix for the cluster.
	ClusterName string
	// clusterCIDR is CIDR Range for Pods in cluster.
	ClusterCIDR string
	// serviceCIDR is CIDR Range for Services in cluster.
	ServiceCIDR string
	// NodeCIDRMaskSize is the mask size for node cidr in cluster.
	NodeCIDRMaskSize int32
	// AllocateNodeCIDRs enables CIDRs for Pods to be allocated and, if
	// ConfigureCloudRoutes is true, to be set on the cloud provider.
	AllocateNodeCIDRs bool
	// CIDRAllocatorType determines what kind of pod CIDR allocator will be used.
	CIDRAllocatorType string
	// configureCloudRoutes enables CIDRs allocated with allocateNodeCIDRs
	// to be configured on the cloud provider.
	ConfigureCloudRoutes bool
	// rootCAFile is the root certificate authority will be included in service
	// account's token secret. This must be a valid PEM-encoded CA bundle.
	RootCAFile string
	// contentType is contentType of requests sent to apiserver.
	ContentType string
	// kubeAPIQPS is the QPS to use while talking with kubernetes apiserver.
	KubeAPIQPS float32
	// kubeAPIBurst is the burst to use while talking with kubernetes apiserver.
	KubeAPIBurst int32
	// leaderElection defines the configuration of leader election client.
	LeaderElection LeaderElectionConfiguration
	// volumeConfiguration holds configuration for volume related features.
	VolumeConfiguration VolumeConfiguration
	// How long to wait between starting controller managers
	ControllerStartInterval metav1.Duration
	// enables the generic garbage collector. MUST be synced with the
	// corresponding flag of the kube-apiserver. WARNING: the generic garbage
	// collector is an alpha feature.
	EnableGarbageCollector bool
	// concurrentGCSyncs is the number of garbage collector workers that are
	// allowed to sync concurrently.
	ConcurrentGCSyncs int32
	// gcIgnoredResources is the list of GroupResources that garbage collection should ignore.
	GCIgnoredResources []GroupResource
	// nodeEvictionRate is the number of nodes per second on which pods are deleted in case of node failure when a zone is healthy
	NodeEvictionRate float32
	// secondaryNodeEvictionRate is the number of nodes per second on which pods are deleted in case of node failure when a zone is unhealthy
	SecondaryNodeEvictionRate float32
	// secondaryNodeEvictionRate is implicitly overridden to 0 for clusters smaller than or equal to largeClusterSizeThreshold
	LargeClusterSizeThreshold int32
	// Zone is treated as unhealthy in nodeEvictionRate and secondaryNodeEvictionRate when at least
	// unhealthyZoneThreshold (no less than 3) of Nodes in the zone are NotReady
	UnhealthyZoneThreshold float32
	// Reconciler runs a periodic loop to reconcile the desired state of the with
	// the actual state of the world by triggering attach detach operations.
	// This flag enables or disables reconcile.  Is false by default, and thus enabled.
	DisableAttachDetachReconcilerSync bool
	// ReconcilerSyncLoopPeriod is the amount of time the reconciler sync states loop
	// wait between successive executions. Is set to 5 sec by default.
	ReconcilerSyncLoopPeriod metav1.Duration
	// If set to true enables NoExecute Taints and will evict all not-tolerating
	// Pod running on Nodes tainted with this kind of Taints.
	EnableTaintManager bool
	// HorizontalPodAutoscalerUseRESTClients causes the HPA controller to use REST clients
	// through the kube-aggregator when enabled, instead of using the legacy metrics client
	// through the API server proxy.
	HorizontalPodAutoscalerUseRESTClients bool
}

// VolumeConfiguration contains *all* enumerated flags meant to configure all volume
// plugins. From this config, the controller-manager binary will create many instances of
// volume.VolumeConfig, each containing only the configuration needed for that plugin which
// are then passed to the appropriate plugin. The ControllerManager binary is the only part
// of the code which knows what plugins are supported and which flags correspond to each plugin.
type VolumeConfiguration struct {
	// enableHostPathProvisioning enables HostPath PV provisioning when running without a
	// cloud provider. This allows testing and development of provisioning features. HostPath
	// provisioning is not supported in any way, won't work in a multi-node cluster, and
	// should not be used for anything other than testing or development.
	EnableHostPathProvisioning bool
	// enableDynamicProvisioning enables the provisioning of volumes when running within an environment
	// that supports dynamic provisioning. Defaults to true.
	EnableDynamicProvisioning bool
	// persistentVolumeRecyclerConfiguration holds configuration for persistent volume plugins.
	PersistentVolumeRecyclerConfiguration PersistentVolumeRecyclerConfiguration
	// volumePluginDir is the full path of the directory in which the flex
	// volume plugin should search for additional third party volume plugins
	FlexVolumePluginDir string
}

type PersistentVolumeRecyclerConfiguration struct {
	// maximumRetry is number of retries the PV recycler will execute on failure to recycle
	// PV.
	MaximumRetry int32
	// minimumTimeoutNFS is the minimum ActiveDeadlineSeconds to use for an NFS Recycler
	// pod.
	MinimumTimeoutNFS int32
	// podTemplateFilePathNFS is the file path to a pod definition used as a template for
	// NFS persistent volume recycling
	PodTemplateFilePathNFS string
	// incrementTimeoutNFS is the increment of time added per Gi to ActiveDeadlineSeconds
	// for an NFS scrubber pod.
	IncrementTimeoutNFS int32
	// podTemplateFilePathHostPath is the file path to a pod definition used as a template for
	// HostPath persistent volume recycling. This is for development and testing only and
	// will not work in a multi-node cluster.
	PodTemplateFilePathHostPath string
	// minimumTimeoutHostPath is the minimum ActiveDeadlineSeconds to use for a HostPath
	// Recycler pod.  This is for development and testing only and will not work in a multi-node
	// cluster.
	MinimumTimeoutHostPath int32
	// incrementTimeoutHostPath is the increment of time added per Gi to ActiveDeadlineSeconds
	// for a HostPath scrubber pod.  This is for development and testing only and will not work
	// in a multi-node cluster.
	IncrementTimeoutHostPath int32
}

const (
	// "kube-system" is the default scheduler lock object namespace
	SchedulerDefaultLockObjectNamespace string = "kube-system"

	// "kube-scheduler" is the default scheduler lock object name
	SchedulerDefaultLockObjectName = "kube-scheduler"
)

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Both Spain and the Netherlands are set to continue the history making story of the South Africa 2010 World Cup on African soil by playing in their first ever world cup final.
Spain and Netherlands have never won the world cup before. Sunday 11 July will see that changing, and there will be a new winner at the Soccer City Stadium. Ironically, it is the first time that a world cup final will be contested by non-former world cup winners. Thats just one of the firsts for this spectacular world cup hosted by South Africa.
While the Netherlands have contested the world cup finals before, in 1974 and 1978, they did not win the world cup in both occassions. The Dutch teams of the 1970s were famed for what has come to be known as 'total football', which earned Netherlands the title 'Dutch masters'. Indeed the Dutch were masters at playing beautiful football, and the ever demanding Dutch media and nation did not accept just a win from their team, how the team played in their win mattered a lot to the Dutch population.
However, beautiful football did not bring the 'Dutch Masters' any silverware at this level during the golden era of the 1970s. Playing the beautiful brand of total football, theDutch reached the final in 1974 with a bang, but lost 1-2 to a West Germany side which played simple and direct football, rich with a punishing defensive play which protected a lead at all costs. The Dutch reached the world cup final again in 1978, but it appeared that they had learnt little about playing pragmatic football. They got punished by Argentina who romped to a 3-1 victory.
But the Dutch football class of 2010 appears to have learnt something which the 1970s teams failed to master. They have been playing to win rather than to entertain, unlike their 1970s heroes who had nothing to show for their brilliance on the field of play. Netherlands have balance in their team this time around.
The Bert van Marwijk coached team has a defence which has not performed badly and started off their campaign in the group stages with a clean sheet as they beat Denmark 2-0. Despite not being the most outstandng defenders in the world, the back-line of Gregory van der Wiel, Johnny Heitinga, Joris Mathijsen and Giovanni van Bronckhorst has not yet been tested beyond measure at this world cup. Their real test will come on Sunday against a Spanish team which attacks as a unit, with a very mobile Villa who is not tied to one place and is forever looking for a hole in the opposition from off Iniesta and Xavi passes.
The Dutch midfield has two hard man in Mark von Bomel and Nigel de Jong who who are tasked with ensuring that Xavi and Andres Iniesta do not supply clean balls to the dangerous David Villa or strike partner Fernando Torres, Pedro or Cesc Fabregas, whoever is chosen to play alongside the in-form Villa.
The Dutch have proved to all and sundry that they are deadly on counter attacks with the attacking prowess of Wesley Sneidjer, Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie. It will be particularly difficult for Spain to stop the dribbling wizard and pacy Robben and the clinical Sneidjer.
Spain, on the other hand, have never reached the finals of a world cup. They made history on Wednesday when they defeated Germany 1-0 to reach the final for their first ever time.
The Spaniards have dominated ball possession in all the matches they have played at this world cup. They showed how ruthless they can be against Germany and the narrow scoreline of 1-0 does not reflect the Spaniards' dominance in that match. But again, finishing has been the Spanish team's biggest limitation. On Sunday they will come against a team with efficient and effective finishing ability. Spain's over-reliance on Villa for goals could spell disaster for them if Bert van Marwijk's men come up with an effective strategy to shut out Villa and Spain's supply lines of Iniesta and Xavi, and the intelligent power-play of the roving Sergio Ramos.
The Dutch appear to know exactly what they ought to do on Sunday to avoid the disappointment which Germany suffered on Wednesday. They are prepared to play ugly football and win than beautiful football and lose.
"We will defend from the front. No-one here feels they are too special to get their hands dirty. I was surprised with how freely Germany let Spain play (on Wednesday). We have to start pressing them earlier", Robben told the BBC on the sidelines of their training this week.
"I would much prefer to win a very ugly game than lose a beautiful one. We can still play attractive football but we can always rely on our good organisation as well ", added Robben.
As to who will win Sunday's final remains uncertain and difficult to tell given the pedigree of both teams. But what is certain is that there will be a new world cup winner come 11 July.
The SA 2010 has been rich in history. It was for the first time that the World Cup was awarded to an African nation to host it and South Africa responded buy putting together a wonderful tournament to confound critics.
Part of the hiostroy made at this world cup include the fact that Ghana qualified for the world cup quarter-finals for their first time in only their second appearance at the world cup. Spain have reached the world cup final for their first time. While they are the current European champions, a world cup final has always eluded Spain. On Sunday, there will surely be a new winner since the Netherlands have not won the cup before either, despite their 1970s great teams which reached the finals twice in succession between 1974 and 1978.
Both teams do not seem to have any injury concerns in their camps, or if there are any, the teams have kept such news like a closely guarded secret to the media. The team on better form will walk away as the World Cup champions on Sunday 11 July.


A source extremely close to the victim says yes and apparently a source extremely close to a guy that could lose his job over this says no.
Then why say "if it's true?" State it as fact.
And contact with bodily fluids every day can have zero effect on you. As a matter of FACT, the chances of Hep-C or AIDS infected fluids (just to name a couple of fun ones) would have such a remote chance of affecting an individual that I'm glad you're not an attorney.
I know you are highly highly educated on matters like this but I think you are being too dismissive. Baseball players/high school kids are often going to have open cuts or types of damaged skin due to their highly physical activities which could allow pathogens to easily infect them given the perfect storm.
Are you saying its not true?
Woah, woah, woah....who said anything about drugs?!
Sorry, said it wrong. Should have been blood test. My bad. Nothing about drugs.
I totally agree. It makes me wonder how the parents raise some of these kids. The parents need to teach their kids right from wrong.
Right, because parents raise their kids to be bullies and to be horrible kids.
If said activity was indeed an assault by the statutes in that jurisdiction, is it not hindering prosecution to send the alleged perpetrators home?
My guess is no one is more disappointed and embarrassed than the parents of the boys. I have really good kids but each and every one has done something in their life that shocked and disappointed me terribly despite what I hope was a good upbringing.
Wouldn't think so, there was no prosecution to hinder at that point, not even a complaint.
I don't know. If it were my son there would be no legal complaint based on the little information we really have at this point.
No they dont raise them to be bullies but many sure as heck dont raise them to NOT be bullies. That is the problem with our society.
WOW REALLY!!! I don't care how old they are or if they were provaked or not if the fact is that they skirt urine on another player that's all anyone needs to know, what other facts do you need? What you said is wrong, what if that was your son it happened to?


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text:
Claude Bouchard d"Orval
Médard Chouart des Groseilliers
The history of Dorval dates back more than 300 years to 1667 when Sulpician priests
established a mission on the outskirts of what wasthen called Ville-Marie, a French
settlement which later became known as Montreal. The mission, originally named
"Gentilly", was later renamed "La Présentation-de-la-Vierge-Marie". Here, in 1668, Father
François Salignac de Fénelon (1) founded a school and a mission post for the Indians. In
1691, Jean-Baptiste Bouchard d'Orval, a fur trader and voyageur, bought the domain of
La Présentation from Pierre Le Gardeur de Repentigny (2), who was the owner at that
time. The city owes its name to Jean-Baptiste Bouchard d'Orval. His father, Claude
Bouchard d'Orval, had added "d'Orval" to his name.
How did the name d'Orval come to be added?
Claude Bouchard was born in 1612 in Orval, one of eleven villages composing Montigny-Lengrain, Soissons, Picardy (France). Having studied medicine in France, he became a surgeon in his early 30s. In June 1643, Claude Bouchard immigrated to New France. He settled in Sillery, Québec (today the District of Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge). On September 19, 1647, for reasons unknown, he returned to France aboard the L'Ange-Gardien, and stayed there until 1648, when he came back to New France. He bought a concession of land in Château-Richer (3), a small town situated east of Quebec City, where the first rural parish in New France was established in 1678, and where many of the early pioneer families in Quebec first settled. In the following eleven years he cleared 40 arpents of land for cultivation at Chateau-Richer. In addition to being a surgeon and farmer, he became bailiff, clerk, and notary of the Beaupré Seigneurie.
In a paper on the family, it is written that there was another Claude Bouchard, a tailor. The tailor and the surgeon were often confused. To avoid such mistakes, the surgeon added "d'Orval" to his name, after the village in Montigny-Lengrain (France) where he was born.
On November 20, 1651, Claude Bouchard d'Orval married Marguerite Bénard, in Notre-Dame, Quebec (marriage contract 1651-11-05 - Notary Guillaume Audouart).
Marguerite Bénard was born in 1626 in Arpajon, in the
Paris urban area of the department of Essonne (France).
Seven children were born of their marriage, all of whom
grew up to become adults. Their eldest son, Jean-Baptiste
d'Orval was born in November 21, 1652 in Sillery, Quebec.
He eventually moved to Montreal, a key region for the
development of agriculture and the fur trade at the time.
In 1691 Jean-Baptiste d'Orval bought the Domaine de La
Présentation from Pierre Le Gardeur de Repentigny. (Note: Pierre Le Gardeur was the husband of Agathe de Saint-Père (4), a business entrepreneur and inventor.
On December 19, 1695, Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Antoinette Chouart Desgroseillers, the daughter of Médard Chouart des Groseilliers (5), a French explorer, who came to Canada in 1641, where he became a fur trader, and in 1670, co-founder of the Hudson's Bay Company.
From this marriage four children were born: Geneviève Bouchard dit Dorval; Joseph
Bouchard dit Dorval; Jean-Baptiste Bouchard dit Dorval dit Desgroseilliers; and
Antoine Bouchard.
Jean-Baptiste died on November 19, 1703 in St Pierre, Quebec, and is buried at
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, near Quebec City.
Dorval was incorporated as a village in 1892, a town in 1903, and a city in 1956.
On January 1, 2002, as part of the 2002–2006 municipal reorganization of Montreal, Dorval was merged into the city of Montreal. It became a borough of Montreal, but after a change of government and a 2004 referendum, Dorval was reconstituted as a city again on January 1, 2006.
City of Dorval
Dorval Historical Society
FrancoGène
Institut Drouin
Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Français 1608-1760
(1) http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/salignac_de_la_mothe_fenelon_francois_de_1F.html
https://www.fotw.info/flags/ca-qcdor.html
(2) http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/legardeur_de_repentigny_pierre_1648_1E.html
(3) https://baladodecouverte.com/circuits/675/poi/6864/promontoire-de-chateau-richer
(4) http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/saint_pere_agathe_de_3E.html
(5) https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/medard-chouart-des-groseilliers
Origins of the name Dorval
History of Dorval
Marriage Register C;laude Bouchard and Marguerite Bénard, 20-11-1651.
Marker on Lakeshore Drive at the bottom of Dorval Avenue
Marriage Register Jean-Baptiste Bouchard and Marie-Antoinette Chouart Desgroseilliers - 19-12-1695
Copyright Société Historique Dorval Historical Society. All rights reserved.