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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... Kiev by Century IO 28 4I 2.1 Kiev's Electorate by District , 1902 2.2 Voting Turnout for Selected Cities , 1900-1914 2.3 Expenditures of Provincial Imperial Russian Cities in 1910 and 1913 ( in Millions of Rubles ) and Per Capita ...
... Kiev had a continuous pop- ulation of about twenty thousand people . By 1869–1870 , when the rail- road connecting the city with Moscow and the Black Sea port of Odessa was completed , Kiev's population had grown to seventy thousand ...
... Kiev authorities , at least until the insurrection of 1863. After long periods of exclusion , Jews reestablished a ... Kiev's political culture and the accomplishments and short- comings of its political institutions should enhance our ...
... Kiev's history prior to the Great Reforms . Kiev produced many memoirists . They wrote in Russian , Ukrainian , and Polish about their student years , their participation in local political struggles , or simply about life in the city ...
... Kiev . Most of these prints were obtained through the services of Kiev's Mysterstvo Press , whose director , Valentin Kuzmenko , granted me per- mission to use them . Some of these photos can also be found in the stun- ning pictorial ...
Contents
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CHAPTER III Polish Kiev | 55 |
CHAPTER IV Ukrainians in Russian Kiev | 82 |
CHAPTER V Jewish Kiev | 117 |
CHAPTER VI Recreation the Arts and Popular Culture in Kiev | 135 |
Kiev in 1905 | 173 |
The October Pogrom | 189 |
CHAPTER IX The Final Years of Romanov Kiev | 208 |
Conclusion | 223 |
Notes | 237 |
Bibliography | 273 |
Index | 287 |