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The Fellow Who Made Himself President of a European Republic: Gregory Ignatius Zhatkovych
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2020
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This is the first comprehensive biography based on unique archival sources about Gregory Ignatius Zhatkovych, a Pittsburgh-based lawyer, who in 1918–1919 was instrumental in the creation of Czechoslovakia and the inclusion of its far eastern region, Subcarpathian Rus'/Ruthenia, into the new country.
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