The material in the original three-volume set, published in Ukrainian in 1949, has been translated, revised, and supplemented withup-to-date material by a number of prominent research scholars from the USA and Canada. The revised text has been carefully checked by experts in each field of study. The contents of Volume II consist of sections on law, church, scholarship, education, libraries, publishing, arts, music, theatre and cinema, national economy, health, armed forces, and Ukrainians abroad. Libraries, government agencies, and all those seeking knowledge of Eastern Europe will find in the Encyclopaedia a wealth of fascinating and illuminating material not available elsewhere in the English language.