Jaroslav Isaievych
The Sorry State of Scholarly Publishing in History: Two Examples
During the raid twentieth century there was increased interest in Georgii of Drohobicz (1450-1494), the first known Ukrainian author of a published book. I. Isaevych published his bélles-léttres biography in 1966, and in 1988 in Bologna Haissa Pessina Longo published a plagiarized version of this book in Italian. Two recent facsimiles and translations of Drohobicz's works (Drohobych, 2001; Kharkiv, 2002) are sloppy non-scholarly publications, and stand as examples of an all too widespread decline in scholarly standards in academic publishing today in Ukraine.