Yet to a great extent he did carry out all the above activities from the relatively humble position of university professor. He might even have carried out such duties not as a university professor but possibly as a member of a council of ministers. Had he lived and worked in an independent Ukrainian state, he would surely have been a leading scholar-publicist, an organizer of cultural-political events, and an ambassador of Ukrainian intellectual creativity. Thus our relationship began and was interrupted under the aegis of Viacheslav Lypynsky.īy nature, Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky was not an ivory-tower scholar.
Our friendship arose through our mutual interest in the works and ideas of Viacheslav Lypynsky, a rare phenomenon at that time. This was a strange coincidence: we first met inJhe 1937-8 academic year in Lviv, which at that time was the centre of the Ukrainian nationalist student movement. Shortly before his death I received a letter from him concerning the publication of papers from the successful conference that he had organized to mark the centennial of Viacheslav Lypynsky's birth. This is especially true as he departed so very unexpectedly, without completely fulfilling his creative potential. It is no easy task to evaluate the work of Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky, a colleague and friend whose fortunes I often shared over the course of half a century. Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky, Scholar and "Communicator" Omeljan Pritsak
Rudnytsky, Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 1987.
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