Review Essay: Conditio sine qua non 275 © 2017 East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (ewjus.com) ISSN 2292-7956 Volume IV, No. 2 (2017) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21226/T20D1V Review Essay Conditio sine qua non Ola Hnatiuk Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw Department of History, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Translated from Ukrainian by Iaroslava Strikha Mariusz Sawa. Ukraiński emigrant: Działalność i myśl Iwana Kedryna- Rudnyckiego (1896-1995) [Ukrainian Emigrant: The Activities and Thought of Ivan Kedryn-Rudnytsky (1896–1995)]. )nstytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2016. 400 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Indexes. PLN 31,00, cloth. iographies do not constitute a well-developed genre of writing in Ukraine. Popular biographies and biographic scholarly monographs are in short supply, even those dealing with the most prominent and central figures of Ukrainian history. Book-length biographies about Galicians are particularly scant: with few exceptions, these individualsǯ DzGalician naturedz—assigned a status of marginality in the historiographic paradigm that has been carried over from the twentieth century—has caused them to be excluded from the pantheon of important figures about whom biographies are written. The elevated genre of intellectual biography, which spans the disciplines of history, philosophy, and political studies, is represented by very few works (first and foremost among them is Prorok u svoii vitchyzni: Franko ta ioho spil'nota [1856-1886] [A Prophet in His Own Homeland: Franko and His Community (1856-1886)] by Iaroslav Hrytsak). The publishing market in Poland is a completely different story: biographies (and memoirs) are among the most popular published genres. Furthermore, Poland has the most active publishing market outside of Ukraine with regard to books on Ukrainian topics, including the history of Ukraine. Each year, several dozen books on Ukrainian issues are published; naturally, these include biographies. To date, their protagonists have featured, for instance, Bohdan B