History of Ukraine-Rus'
Volume 1. From Prehistory to the Eleventh Century
History of Ukraine-Rus'
By Mykhailo Hrushevsky
Edited by Andrzej Poppe and Frank E. Sysyn
Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s History of Ukraine-Rus’. Volume 1: From Prehistory to the Eleventh Century discusses the Ukrainian land and the people who inhabited it from the earliest times up to the formation of the Rus’ state and its Christianization. Hrushevsky examines the emergence of Rus’ civilization through the prisms of archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, and historical linguistics. He gives penetrating analyses of historical sources and pays special attention to the Primary Chronicle and the Normanist Controversy. The newly compiled bibliography of more than 1,700 items includes all manuscripts, published sources, and secondary works used by Hrushevsky.
Book details
Publication date: January 1997Series: History of Ukraine-Rus'
Keywords: Ukraine, history, Kyivan Rus’, Cossacks, Cossack Hetman state, Galician-Volhynian state, Zaporozhian Sich, Khmelnytsky Uprising, national identity, literature, art, historiography, national identity, Church, interethnic relations, Eastern Europe
Subject(s): HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Ukraine, history, Kyivan Rus’, Cossacks, Cossack Hetman state, Galician-Volhynian state, Zaporozhian Sich, Khmelnytsky Uprising, national identity, literature, art, historiography, national identity, Church, interethnic relations, Eastern Europe
Publisher(s): CIUS Press
Book details
Publication date: January 1997Series: History of Ukraine-Rus'
Keywords: Ukraine, history, Kyivan Rus’, Cossacks, Cossack Hetman state, Galician-Volhynian state, Zaporozhian Sich, Khmelnytsky Uprising, national identity, literature, art, historiography, national identity, Church, interethnic relations, Eastern Europe
Subject(s): HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Ukraine, history, Kyivan Rus’, Cossacks, Cossack Hetman state, Galician-Volhynian state, Zaporozhian Sich, Khmelnytsky Uprising, national identity, literature, art, historiography, national identity, Church, interethnic relations, Eastern Europe
Publisher(s): CIUS Press
Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Appointed professor of history at Lviv University in 1894, Mykhailo Hrushevsky became a leading figure in the scholarly and cultural community of Western Ukraine. In 1918 in Kyiv, he became head of the government of the independent Ukrainian state. From 1924 to 1931, he organized historical studies at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. An extraordinarily prolific writer, he produced some 2,000 scholarly works.
Marta Skorupsky.
Andrzej Poppe.
Frank E. Sysyn. Frank E. Sysyn is Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project. He is a co-editor of Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter, 1600–1945 (2003), the author of Between Poland and Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600–1653 (1985), and Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001).
Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Appointed professor of history at Lviv University in 1894, Mykhailo Hrushevsky became a leading figure in the scholarly and cultural community of Western Ukraine. In 1918 in Kyiv, he became head of the government of the independent Ukrainian state. From 1924 to 1931, he organized historical studies at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. An extraordinarily prolific writer, he produced some 2,000 scholarly works.
Marta Skorupsky.
Andrzej Poppe.
Frank E. Sysyn. Frank E. Sysyn is Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project. He is a co-editor of Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter, 1600–1945 (2003), the author of Between Poland and Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600–1653 (1985), and Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001).