PETER J. POTICHNYJ studied in the Ukraine, Poland, Germany, and the United States, and received a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia in 1966. He is co-author, with Grey Hodnett, of The Ukraine and the Czechoslovak Crisis and edited On the Current Situation in the Ukraine. At present he is associate professor of political science and chairman of an interdepartmental committee on communist and East European affairs at McMaster University.