Aleksei L. Petrov, a Russian historian of the early 20th-century, spent several decades researching the origins and histories of the people of the Carpathian Mountains. This book pays particular attention to the Carpathians as a borderland and to the concept of Rus'/Rusyns in early medieval Hungary. Petrov also provides details concerning the popular Rusyn political leaders of the era, Peter Petovych and Fedir Koriatovych.

This is a history of a stateless people, the Carpatho-Rusyns, and their historic homeland, Carpathian Rus', located in the heart of central Europe. At the present, when it is fashionable to speak of nationalities as "imagined communities" or as transnational constructs "created" by intellectuals\ elites who may live in the historic "national" homeland or in the diaspora, Carpatho-Rusyns provide an ideal example of a people made—or some would say still being made—before our very eyes. The book traces the evolution of Carpathian Rus' from earliest pre-historic times to the present and the complex manner in which a distinct Carpatho-Rusyn people, since the mid-nineteenth century, came into being, disappeared, and then re-appeared in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of Communist rule in central and eastern Europe.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Rusyn language, Rusyns, West Ukrainian People's Republic, Lemkos, Carpatho-Ukraine, Ruthenian Catholic Church, Hutsuls, History of the Jews in Carpathian Ruthenia, Military history of Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II, Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians, Binczarowa, Lemko Republic, Boyko, Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve, Lemkivshchyna, Ruthenians and Ukrainians in Czechoslovakia, Karoly Hokky, Florynka, Carpatho-Rusyn American, Transcarpathia. Excerpt: Carpathian Ruthenia, (Rusyn and Ukrainian:, Karpats'ka Rus'; Slovak and Czech: Podkarpatska Rus; Hungarian: Romanian: Polish: ) is a small region in Eastern Europe, now mostly in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukrainian: Zakarpats'ka oblast'), easternmost Slovakia (largely in Pre ov kraj and Ko ice kraj), Poland's Lemkovyna and Romanian Maramure . In ethnic diversity, it is inhabited by Ukrainian, Rusyn, Lemko, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Bulgarian and Russian populations. It has small Bogomil, Hutsul, Jewish, Romani and Szekler or Csango (ethnic Magyars of the Orthodox Church faith) minorities. The nomenclature of the region depends on geographic perspective and point of view. Thus from a Hungarian, Slovak, Czech perspective the region is described as Sub-Carpathia, (i.e. below the Carpathians) while from a Ukrainian and Russian perspective it is referred to as Trans-Carpathia (on the other side of the Carpathian mountains). The use of Carpathian Ruthenia is an attempt to provide a neutral term. During the region's period of Hungarian rule lasting approximately a thousand years, it was officially referred to by Hungarians as Subcarpathia (Hungarian: ) or North-Eastern Upper Hungary. After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920 and the breakup of Austria-Hungary the region became part of Czechoslovakia...

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Carpatho-Rusyns, factors encouraging their emigration to North America, and their acceptance as an ethnic group there.

The third volume of the annotated biblithography on Carpath-Rusyn studies contains over 800 entries in a wide range of disciplines: archeology, art and architecture, bibliography, biography, church history, economics, ethnography, geography, history, language, literature, and politics, among others. Each entry provides full bibliographic data followed by a succinct content analysis of the book, journal article, or book chapter in question. The bibliography is comprehensive and includes all publications that appeared between 1995 and 1999, regardless of language or place of publication. Appended are several statistical charts and a comprehensive index of authors and subjects.