Stercho, Petro

Stercho, Petro [Стерчо, Петро; Sterčo, Petro], b 14 April 1919 in Kuzmyne, Bereg komitat, Transcarpathia, d 18 June 1987 in Narberth, Pennsylvania, USA. Economist, historian, and civic leader; full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. A graduate of the Ukrainian Higher School of Economics in Munich (PH D, 1949), he emigrated to the United States of America in 1950 and taught at Saint Vincent’s College (1955–63) while studying political science at the University of Notre Dame (PH D, 1959). From 1963 he lectured in economics at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He was a leading member of many Ukrainian organizations, such as the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council, the Carpathian Sich Brotherhood, and the Ukrainian American Association of University Professors (president, 1967–71). Besides numerous articles in history and economics, he wrote a number of works on Carpatho-Ukraine, including Carpatho-Ukraine in International Affairs, 1938–1939 (1959), Karpato-ukraïns'ka derzhava (The Carpatho-Ukrainian State, 1965), Diplomacy of Double Morality: Europe’s Crossroads in Carpatho-Ukraine, 1919–1939 (1971), and (with Matvii Stakhiv) Ukraine and the European Turmoil, 1917–1919 (1973).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]