General works
Encyclopaedic reference sources on the country include M.P. Bazhan et al. (eds.), Soviet Ukraine (1969; originally published in Ukrainian, 1964); and the most extensive reference works available in the West: Volodymyr Kubijovyč (ed.), Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia, 2 vol. (1963–71; originally published in Ukrainian, 3 vol., 1949–52), a thematic approach; and Volodymyr Kubijovyč and Danylo Husar Struk (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ukraine, 5 vol. (1984–93; originally published in Ukrainian, 10 vol., 1955–84), an alphabetic treatment. Zenon E. Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, and Myroslav Yurkevich, Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (2005), is another useful reference work.