[PDF] The Cossack Myth eBook

Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 110702210X

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The fascinating story of The History of the Rus', one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era.

Author : Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :

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This is the first book to study the development of the Cossack hero and to identify him as part of Russian cultural mythology. Kornblatt explores the power of the myth as a literary image, providing new and challenging readings of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and a host of other writers.

Author : Shane O'Rourke
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :

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This book covers 500 years of the history of the Cossacks -- the recklessly brave, wild horsemen, or the romantic hero of the steppe, or the brutal mounted policemen, as they have been remembered throughout history. A lucid and engaging book that conveys the passion, exuberance and tragedy of these extraordinary people, it will be enjoyed by students, scholars and general readers interested in Russian history.

Author : Amelia M. Glaser
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0804794960

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In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the legendary Cossack general who organized a rebellion that liberated the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule. Consequently, he has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given nation builder, cut in the model of George Washington. But in this campaign, the massacre of thousands of Jews perceived as Polish intermediaries was the collateral damage, and in order to secure the tentative independence, Khmelnytsky signed a treaty with Moscow, ultimately ceding the territory to the Russian tsar. So, was he a liberator or a villain? This volume examines drastically different narratives, from Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian, and Polish literature, that have sought to animate, deify, and vilify the seventeenth-century Cossack. Khmelnytsky's legacy, either as nation builder or as antagonist, has inhibited inter-ethnic and political rapprochement at key moments throughout history and, as we see in recent conflicts, continues to affect Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, and Russian national identity.

Author : Robert Nisbet Bain
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781015883369

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Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Cossacks
ISBN :

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Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. In this groundbreaking study, Serhii Plokhy examines the political and religious culture of Ukrainian Cossackdom, as reflected in the Cossack-era paintings, icons, and woodcuts.