Making of Cossack Ukraine

Political Thought, Culture, and Identity Formation, 1569-1714

AvZenon E. Kohut

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Both modern Ukrainian nationhood and the historical preconditions of the country’s contemporary conflict with Russia are rooted in a complex period of development in Cossack Ukraine. The Making of Cossack Ukraine traces the evolution of early modern Ukrainian political thought and culture from their sixteenth-century origins to 1714.Early modern Ukraine was home to a multitude of interrelated political cultures, including those of the Ruthenian nobility, the Kyivan clergy, and the Cossacks. Zenon Kohut shows how constant interplay between these cultures contributed to the development of political, territorial, religious, ethnic, and national collective visions that reflected early modern concepts of nation, state, and identity. Two persistent narratives – the idea of Ukrainian autonomy and perpetual rights, and the idea of a continuous “Russian” tsardom stemming from medieval times – formed the foundation for not only Ukrainian state and nation building but also Russia’s modern identity and sense of nationhood, creating the ideological underpinning for Russian imperialism.Based in a classical analysis of ethnic, religious, and political ideas developed by early modern Ukrainian intellectuals, The Making of Cossack Ukraine brings to light the origins of present-day Ukrainian political thought.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-02
Mått:220 x 40 x 140 mm
Vikt:1 060 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:636
Förlag:McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN:9780228019015

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Zenon E. Kohut is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta.

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“The Making of Cossack Ukraine is the result of decades of work by one of the leading experts on the history of Cossack nation building, nation writing, and political thought. It is a much-needed contribution to the field and a work that will withstand the test of time.” Serhii Plokhy, Harvard University and author of The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires

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Note on Transliteration, Translations, Dates, and Terminology viiAcknowledgments xiAbbreviations xiiiMaps xivIntroduction 31 Ruthenian-Ukrainian Political Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1640s) 172 Establishing Goals, Political Concepts, and Values: The Khmel'nyts'kyi Uprising and the Hetmanate (1648–68) 413 Uniting the Fatherland: Hetman Petro Doroshenko (1665–75) 744 The Left-Bank Hetmanate: Hetman Ivan Samoilovych (1672–87) 1025 The Construction of Historical-Political Narratives (1660–80s) 1466 In Service to Tsar and Ukraine: Hetman Ivan Mazepa 2127 Mazepa: Modernizer and Enlightened Ruler (1687–1708) 2508 Mazepa: Hetman of a Sacred Rutheno-Rossian Realm 2869 From Tsarist Service to Swedish Protection (1705–09) 33210 From Reprisals to Ideological Combat: Peter vs Mazepa 36011 Liberating Ukraine: Hetman Pylyp Orlyk (1709–14) 39112 Rethinking Ukraine: Envisioning a Free Cossack Commonwealth 428Conclusions 455Epilogue 467Notes 479Bibliography 553Index 59