A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples, Second EditionFirst published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Paul Robert Magocsi examines recent developments in the country's history and uses new scholarship in order to expand our conception of the Ukrainian historical narrative. New chapters deal with the Crimean Khanate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and new research on the pre-historic Trypillians, the Italians of the Crimea and the Black Death, the Karaites, Ottoman and Crimean slavery, Soviet-era ethnic cleansing, and the Orange Revolution is incorporated. Magocsi has also thoroughly updated the many maps that appear throughout. Maintaining his depiction of the multicultural reality of past and present Ukraine, Magocsi has added new information on Ukraine's peoples and discusses Ukraine's diasporas. Comprehensive, innovative, and geared towards teaching, the second edition of A History of Ukraine is ideal for both teachers and students. |
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... Kiev, the political and religious center of the “Russian” people shifted north, first to vladimir-na-Kliazma, then to Moscow, and finally, in the early eighteenth century, to St Petersburg. This became in Russian history what might be ...
... Kiev and Roden'; the Derevlianians (forest dwellers), bounded by the Pripet and Horyn' Rivers; the Dulibians, in ... Kiev area, 350 in volhynia, 250 in Podolia, and 100 in Galicia. Among the more important were Kiev, the center for the ...
... Kiev. Both places had effigies of mythic gods. In Kiev, there was a large wooden statue of Perun, who as the personification of thunder became the god of war to whom Kiev's earliest rulers and first Rus' princes paid tribute, as they ...
... Kiev. From their center at roden', the ros united the surrounding slavic peoples into a tribal alliance in the sixth century. that union was subsequently enlarged and strengthened when the ros merged with the polianians of the Kiev ...
... Kiev, which at the time, together with the surrounding Polianian countryside, was in vassalage to the Khazars. While it is not clear whether or not they were asked to do so by the people of Kiev, Askol'd and Dir “remained in this town ...