Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917In a fascinating "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in late Imperial Russia, and is now the capital of independent Ukraine. After a concise account of Kiev's early history, Hamm focuses on the city's dramatic growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first historian to analyze how each of Kiev's ethnic groups contributed to the vitality of the city's culture, he also examines the violent conflicts that developed among them. In vivid detail, he shows why Kiev came to be known for its "abundance of revolutionaries" and its anti-Semitic violence. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictNow the capital of independent Ukraine, Kiev has had a long and varied history. The center of Russian national development during medieval times (Kievan Rus), it was one of the great European cities ... Read full review
Contents
The Early History of Kiev | 3 |
The Growth of Metropolitan Kiev | 18 |
Polish Kiev | 55 |
Ukrainians in Russian Kiev | 82 |
Jewish Kiev | 117 |
Recreation the Arts and Popular Culture in Kiev | 135 |
The Promise of Change Kiev in 1905 | 173 |