The collapse of Polish rule in the Ukraine in the mid-seventeenth century changed the course of East European history. The great Cossack revolt of 1648 exposed the weaknesses of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the emergence of a Ukrainian polity, a struggle for dominance ensued, paving the way for the Russian annexation of the Ukraine.
Frank Sysyn examines the failure of Polish policy through the career of Adam Kysil. A leader of the Ukrainian nobility and an official of the Polish government, Kysil was ideally suited to serve as the mediator between the rebels and the government. His failure signaled the already irreconcilable differences that divided them. Based on extensive archival research in Poland and the USSR, Sysyn's study is a contribution not only to scholarship on Eastern Europe, but also to discussions on the preconditions and nature of early modern revolts and on the change of political and social elites.

Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600–1653 (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies)

History

Sysyn, Frank E.

Europe

Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

History, culture, and nation: An examination of seventeenth-century Ukrainian history writing (The Millennium series)

Ukrainian Studies Fund, Harvard University

The making of modern Ukrainian identity is often reduced to a choice between "Little Russia" and "Ukraine." In this collection of essays, Zenon Kohut shows that the process was much more complex, involving Western influences and native traditions that shaped a distinct Ukrainian political culture and historiography. He stresses the importance of the early modern period and analyzes the development of Ukrainian historiography. Among the topics singled out for attention are the struggle for Cossack rights and liberties, the ambiguous role of the concept of Little Russia, the development of a stereotypical image of Jews, and post-independence relations between Ukraine and Russia. The book offers a rewarding and richly nuanced treatment of a contentious subject.

Making Ukraine: Studies on Political Culture, Historical Narrative, and Identity (Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research Monogra)

Kohut, Zenon E.

University of Alberta Press

Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine

Much of the analysis presented in the essays that make up this book deals with the responses of Ukraine's Eastern Christians to the challenge of the national idea. The book places the history and current status of Ukraine's Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities into the context of the modern Ukrainian national revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the resurgence of Ukrainian national consciousness in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

PLOKHY, Serhii

Canadian Inst of Ukranian Study Pr

The series of four sessions on the Russian-Ukrainian encounter held alternately at Columbia University and Cologne University from June 1994 to September 1995 had their origin in both the world of great political events and the world of scholarly discussion. Ukraine's declaration of independence, ratified by the referendum of 1 December 1991, and subsequent international recognition were followed by the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 25 December 1991. These developments made Ukrainian-Russian relations a major international issue. A new, difficult, and uncertain phase in these relations began with the establishment of these two independent neighbouring states. Since Russia would clearly remain a major world power, while Ukraine was the largest and one of the most populous states of Europe, those relations took on more than binational significance. The future of the post-Soviet order depends largely on how these two largely Slavic countries work out their relations. The editors of Culture, Nation, and Identity, representing the Seminar for East European History at Cologne University, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, invited seventy specialists to examine the Russian-Ukrainian encounter in four chronological symposia, from the seventeenth century to the present. The papers on the contemporary period were published in the Harriman Review. The present volume is a selection of sixteen articles developed from presentations on the Ukrainian-Russian encounter from the early modern period to World War II. Historians and Slavists from Canada, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States employ diverse methodologies to examine the many spheres in which Russians and Ukrainians and their identities and cultures interacted. This title consists of sixteen essays, a preface, and an afterword. Contributors include Viktor Zhivov, Zenon E. Kohut, Frank E. Sysyn, Paul Bushkovitch, Andreas Kappeler, Olga Andriewsky, Serhy Yekelchyk, Dieter Pohl, Yuri Shapoval, and many others.

Culture, Nation, & Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945)

Kappeler, Andreas

Mark von Hagen

The editors of Culture, Nation, and Identity, representing the Seminar for East European History at Cologne University, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and CIUS Press at the University of Alberta, invited seventy specialists to examine the Russian-Ukrainian encounter in four chronological symposia, from the seventeenth century to the present. Historians and Slavists from Canada, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States employ diverse methodologies to examine the many spheres in which Russians and Ukrainians and their identities and cultures interacted. Contributors: Olga Anrievsky, Paul Bushkovitch, David A. Frick, George G. Grabowicz, Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, Andreas Kappeler, Zenon E. Kohut, Stanislav Kulchytsky, Dieter Pohl, Marc Raeff, Yuri Shapoval, Frank E. Sysyn, Hans-Joachim Torce, Mark von Hagen, Christine D. Worobec, Serhy Yekelchyk, Victor M. Zhivov.

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Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600–1653 (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies)

History, culture, and nation: An examination of seventeenth-century Ukrainian history writing (The Millennium series)

Making Ukraine: Studies on Political Culture, Historical Narrative, and Identity (Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research Monogra)

Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine

Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine

Culture, Nation, & Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945)

Culture, Nation, & Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945)