Preface

Preface to the First Edition

List of Tables

List of Maps

Part One: Introduction and Pre-Kievan Times

1 Ukraine's Geographic and Ethnolinguistic Setting

Territory and geography

Climate

Natural resources

Administrative and ethnolinguistic divisions

Population

Nomenclature

2 Historical Perceptions

The Russian historical viewpoint

What is eastern Europe?

The Polish historical viewpoint

The Ukrainian historical viewpoint

Kostomarov on Ukrainians, Russians, and Poles

The Soviet historical viewpoint

3 The Steppe Hinterland and the Black Sea Cities

The steppe hinterland

Trypillians and Ukrainians

Nomadic civilizations on Ukrainian territory

The nomads of the steppe hinterland

The Greeks of the coastal region

The Pax Scythica, the Sarmatians, and the Pax Romana

Scythian customs

The Byzantines and the Khazars

4 The Slavs and the Khazars

The origins of the Slavs

The original homeland of the Slavs

The migrations of the Slavs

The Antes

Archaeology in Ukraine

The Pax Chazarica

The Slavic tribes in the shadow of the Khazars

Part Two: The Kievan Period

5 The Rise of Kievan Rus'

The origin of Rus'

The great debate: The origin of Rus'

Europe in the ninth century

The Varangians in the east

The era of growth and expansion

6 Political Consolidation and Disintegration

Volodymyr the Great

The meaning of Rus'

Christianity and the baptism of Rus'

Christianity in Ukraine

Iaroslav the Wise

The Kievan system of political succession

The conference of Liubech and Volodymyr Monomakh

The era of disintegration

7 Socioeconomic and Cultural Developments

Demography and social structure

The ruling social strata

The social structure of Kievan Rus'

The subordinate social strata

Other social strata

The legal system

The economic order

The voyage from Kiev to Constantinople

Byzantine cultural influences

The Byzantine Empire and its attitude toward Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus' architecture

Kievan Rus' language and literature

What was the language of Kievan Rus' ?

The "Lay of Ihor's Campaign"

8 The Mongols and the Transformation of Rus' Political Life

The rise of the Mongols

The Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'

The Golden Horde

The Pax Mongolica and Italian merchants

Italianate Crimea and the Black Death

9 Galicia-Volhynia

Galicia and Volhynia before their unification

The unification of Galicia and Volhynia

The metropolitanate of Rus'

The demise of Galicia-Volhynia

Part Three: The Lithuanian-Polish-Crimean Period

10 Lithuania and the Union with Poland

The consolidation of the Lithuanian state

The Polish-Lithuanian connection

Muscovy and the Polish-Lithuanian union

11 Socioeconomic Developments

Lithuania's social structure

Social estates in Lithuania and Poland

Lithuania's administrative structure

Poland's social and administrative structure

Peasants, nobles, and Jews

The manorial estate

The coming of Jews to Ukraine

The realignment of international trade patterns

Poland's economic and cultural revival

12 The Orthodox Cultural Revival

The Metropolitanate of Kiev

The Metropolitanate of Kiev and All Rus'

The monastic movement

The role of townspeople and magnates

¿viv's Stauropegial Brotherhood

13 Reformation, Counter Reformation, and the Union of Brest

The Protestant Reformation

The Counter Reformation and Orthodox Ukraine

The Union of Brest

The views of Prince Kostiantyn Ostroz'kyi

The Union of Brest

14 The Tatars and the Crimean Khanate

The Crimean Khanate

Crimean socioeconomic life

The Karaites

The Nogay Tatars and slavery

Was Ottoman and Crimean slavery all that bad?

15 The Cossacks and Ukraine

The steppe

The name 'Ukraine'

The rise of the Cossacks

The Cossacks of Zaporozhia

The Cossacks in Polish society

Social estates in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Ukraine

A male-dominated society?

The international role of the Cossacks

The Cossacks and Orthodoxy

Orthodox versus Uniate

The calm before the storm

Part Four: The Cossack State, 1648-1711

16 Khme¿nyts'kyi and the Uprising of 1648

Khme¿nyts'kyi's early career

The uprising of 1648

Khme¿nyts'kyi and the Jews

Khme¿nyts'kyi as a national leader

17 Muscovy and the Agreement of Pereiaslav

The rise of Muscovy

Muscovy, Poland, and Ukraine

Khme¿nyts'kyi and Pereiaslav

The Agreement of Pereiaslav

18 The Period of Ruin

Changing international alliances

The Cossack turn toward Poland

The Union of Hadiach

Anarchy, ruin, and the division of Ukraine

19 The Structure of the Cossack State

Registered and unregistered Cossacks

Internal administration

What to call the Cossack state?

The Cossack state administration

International status

20 Mazepa and the Great Northern War

The image of Mazepa

The rise of Mazepa

Mazepa as hetman: The early phase

Mazepa during the Great Northern War

Mazepa's defection

Mazepa and Ukraine after Poltava

21 Socioeconomic and Cultural Developments in the Cossack State

Social structure

Social estates in the Cossack state

Economic developments

Church and state

Cultural developments

The transformation of Ukraine after 1648

Part Five: Ukrainian Lands in the Eighteenth Century

22 Ukraine's Autonomy and the Russian Empire

Muscovy becomes the Russian Empire

Sloboda Ukraine

Zaporozhia

The Hetmanate

The Crimean Khanate

Transformation under Russian rule

23 Socioeconomic Developments

The changing social structure

Economic developments

International trade and commerce

24 Religious and Cultural Developments

The integration of the Orthodox church

Education

Architecture and painting

Literature and history writing

25 The Right Bank and Western Ukraine

The return of Polish rule in the Right Bank

Social protest and the haidamak revolts

Uman' as a symbol for Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews

The Partitions of Poland

Part Six: Ukrainian lands in the Russian Empire

26 Administrative and Political Developments in Dnieper Ukraine

Territorial divisions

Administrative structure

Administrative structure in Dnieper Ukraine before the 1860s

Administrative structure in Dnieper Ukraine after the 1860s

The evolution of the Russian Empire, 1814-1914

27 Socioeconomic Developments in Dnieper Ukraine

Social estates before the 1860s

Social estates in Dnieper Ukraine

The reforms of the 1860s

Economic developments

28 The Peoples of Dnieper Ukraine

The Russians

The Poles

What Ukraine means for Poland

The Jews

Memories of the 'shtet¿

Pogroms

The Germans and Mennonites

The Crimean Tatars

The Romanians

Other peoples

29 The Ukrainian National Awakening in Dnieper Ukraine before the 1860s

The idea of nationalism

What is a nationality?

The phenomenon of multiple loyalties

The early histories of Ukraine

The belief in mutually exclusive identities

30 The Ukrainian National Movement in Dnieper Ukraine after the Era of Reforms

The Right Bank and the 'khlopomany' movement

Ukrainianism in St Petersburg and the renewal of the organizational stage

Russian reaction to the Ukrainian movement

The Valuev decree

Schools in Dnieper Ukraine

The Ems Ukase

The church in Dnieper Ukraine

The return to the heritage-gathering stage

The beginnings of the political stage

Part Seven: Ukrainian lands in the Austrian Empire

31 The Administrative and Social Structure of Ukrainian Lands in the Austrian Empire before 1848

Austria acquires Ukrainian lands

The structure of the Austrian Empire

The demographic and administrative status of Galicia and Bukovina

The economic status of Galicia before 1848

Other peoples in eastern Galicia

32 The Ukrainian National Awakening in the Austrian Empire before 1848

The Austrian government and the Ukrainian national awakening

The heritage-gathering stage in Galicia

Bukovina and Transcarpathia before 1848

33 The Revolution of 1848

The revolution in Austria

The revolution in Galicia and the Ukrainians

The Supreme Ruthenian Council

The national movement in Galicia and the beginning of the organizational stage

The revolution of 1848 in Bukovina and Transcarpathia

34 The Administrative and Socioeconomic Structure of Ukrainian Lands in the Austrian Empire, 1849- 1914

Administrative structure

International developments and Austria's internal politics

Austria's parliamentary structure

Social structure and economic developments

The problem of statistics

The Ukrainian diaspora

Other peoples in eastern Galicia and Bukovina

Ukraine's other diasporas

35 The Ukrainian National Movement in Austria-Hungary, 1849-1914

In search of a national identity

Old Ruthenians,...