User:Mzajac/Kyiv

Some notes on Kyiv.

Kyiv in historical subjects

• Results in Google Book Search for "Kyiv" subject:"history" (advanced search: English language, sorted by date)
• Results in Google Scholar for "Kyiv" and history "Kyiv".

Examples:

• Ivan Dziuba (1967), Speech commemorating the 30th birthday of Vasyl Symonenko, delivered jan. 10th, 1967 at the Republican Building of Literature in Kyiv, Kiev, Ukraine, London: Ukrainian Information Service.
• Dmytro Doroshenko (1975), A Survey of Ukrainian History, Winnipeg: Humeniuk Publication Foundation.
• Anna Procyk (1995), Russian Nationalism and Ukraine: The Nationality Policy of the Volunteer Army during the Civil War, Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
• Oleh Stepan Ilnytzkyj (1997), Ukrainian Futurism, 1914–1930: A Historical and Critical Study, Harvard University Press.
• Mykhailo Hrushevskyi (1997), History of Ukraine-Rus′, v 1, Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. Volumes 1–10 in twelve books, published over 1997 to 2014, translated from Ukrainian (1898–1933).
• Catherine Wanner (1998), Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Pennsylvania State University.
• T. Dotsenko, M. Liabakh, and O Paramonov (1998), Kyïv: Mandrivka starodavnim mistom / Kyiv: A Walk around the Ancient City, Kyiv: Kyiv House. Bilingual.
• Thomas Prymak (1999), “Mykola Kostomarov as a Historian,” in Thomas Sanders ed., Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and Writing of History in a Multinational State, Armonk NY, M. E. Sharpe.
• Anthony Heywood (2005), “Socialists, Liberals and the Union of Unions in Kyiv during the 1905 Revolution: An Engineer’s Perspective,” in Jonathan D. Smele and Anthony Heywood eds., The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives, London: Routledge.
• Serhiy Yekelchyk (2007), Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation, Oxford University Press. P xiii: “In this book, Ukrainian place and personal names are transliterated using the simplified Library of Congress system with soft signs, apostrophes, and diacritical marks omitted throughout [practically identical to WP:UKR —MZ] . . . Most Ukrainian place names are transliterated from Ukrainian, including some that have established English forms derived from the Russian spelling; for example, Kyiv (Kiev), Dnipro (Dnieper), and Odesa (Odessa).”
• Georgiy Kasianov and Phillipp Ther, eds. (2009), A Laboratory of Transnational History: Ukraine and Recent Ukrainian Historiography, Budapest: Central European University Press.
• Orest Subtelny (1996, 2010), Ukraine: A History, 4th ed. In the 2010 edition: “A technical note: among Ukrainians the preferred spelling of their capital’s name is Kyiv. I have adopted this version. However, because this book first appeared in 1988, before the Ukrainian version was adopted, the old version, Kiev will, unfortunately, have to be used in this publication.”
• Ivan Katchanovski, Zenon Kohut, Bohdan Nebesio, and Myroslav Yurkevich (2013), Historical Dictionary of Ukraine, 2nd ed., Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
• Roman Adrian Cybriwsky (2014), Kyiv, Ukraine: The City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013-2014. Amsterdam University Press.
• Serhii Plokhy (2015), The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine.
• Anne Applebaum (2017), Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, Toronto: McClellan & Stewart.
• Serhiy Bilenky (2018), Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv, 1800–1905, University of Toronto Press.
• Natalie Kononenko (2019), Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song: Folklore in Context, University of Toronto Press.
• Aušra Jurgutienė and Dalia Satkauskytė eds. (2019), The Literary Field under Communist Rule, Boston: Academic Studies Press.
• Jessica Zychowicz (2020), Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine, University of Toronto Press.
• Leonard Chepel (2020), Kyivan Rus: 100 Steps of History/Kievskai͡a Rus′: Sto Shagov Istorii (English-Russian), Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.
• Coilin O'Connor and Halyna Tereshchuk, “The Revolution on Granite: Ukraine’s ‘First Maidan,’” RFE/RL, October 15, 2020.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Referring to “standard histories and scientific studies,” WP:WIAN mentions the Library of Congress Subject Headings. LCSH uses its official romanization Kyïv in subject headings. Academic publishers follow this form in bibliographies, and most of their publications use the simplified form Kyiv in the main text of their books.

• Kyïv (Ukraine)--History (sh85072293)
• Kyïv (Ukraine)--History--Revolution, 1917-1921 (sh85072294)
• Kyïv (Ukraine)--History--Siege, 1941 (sh95002135)
• Kyïv (Ukraine)--History--Siege, 1943 (sh95002338)

These headings were revised in December 2019.

See LC subject headings search: Kyiv Ukraine History (4), Kyiv Ukraine (20), and compare Kiev.

Ukrainian Kyiv and Russian Kiev

Of course Kyiv and Kiev are both English spellings of a name, but each is derived from and commonly associated with another language. Nearly every article about the name Kyiv/Kiev confirms this.

The spelling Kyiv corresponds to a transliteration from Ukrainian in seven schemes of twelve for Ukrainian described at Romanization of Ukrainian, or nine of twelve if you count Kyïv. Kiev corresponds to a standard transliteration from Russian Киев (according at least eleven of thirteen systems documented in Romanization of Russian).

• 2004, Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd ed., Toronto: Oxford University Press:

  Kiev /ˈkiːef/ (Ukrainian Kyiv /ˈkiːɪf/) the capital of Ukraine, an industrial city and port on the Dnieper River; pop. (est. 2001) 2,602,000.

  Kyiv see Kiev.

Webster’s NWCD is the dictionary that the Chicago Manual of Style recommends as the primary source for place names. These are a main entry s.v. “Kyiv” with a cross-reference to its Russian name. The Russian name has a separate entry with a subject label indicating its specific application, and cross-referring to the main entry for the definition.

• 2018, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 5th ed., New York: Houghton Mifflin, pp 800, 810:

  Ki·ev (Kē′ef′, -ev′) Russ. name for Kyiv —Ki′ev′an (-ən) n., adj.

  Ky·iv (kē′yo͞o) capital of Ukraine, on the Dnieper: Russ. name Kiev.

Per M–W’s (different publisher than the above) help on entries, the key word or signals an equal variant spelling: “these the two spellings occur with equal or nearly equal frequency and can be considered equal variants. Both are standard, and either one may be used according to personal inclination.” The help on usage labels explains that Ukrainian is a subject label “used to indicate the specific application of a word or sense.”

• Merriam-Webster Online, s.v. “Kiev”, Merriam-Webster:

  Kiev geographical name

  Ki·​ev | \ ˈkē-ˌef , -ˌev, -if; ˈkēv \

  variants: or Ukrainian Kyiv or Kyyiv \ ˈki-​yē-​ü \