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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... Lviv , Berdychiv , Katerynoslav , and Kaniv in- stead of Kharkov ( or Khar'kov ) , Lvov , Berdichev , Ekaterinoslav , and Kanev , except where the name appears in quoted material . For Kiev neighborhoods where the old names continue to ...
... Lviv ( Lvov ) , Ukraine's largest town at this time , had about ten thousand.11 In 1474 one Venetian visitor described Kiev as " plain and poor . " 12 Statistician Ivan Pantiukhov estimates that its population aver- aged no more than ...
... Lviv . They provided Kiev's burghers with tax exemptions and allowed for the creation of a burgher magis- tracy , which took on full administrative and judicial authority . A mayor ( voit ) was elected , usually for life . Initially ...
... Lviv and elsewhere . Piotr Skarga and other polemicists " castigated the alleged doctrinal fallacies and the cultural backward- ness of the Orthodox in sermons and open debates . In his famous work " The Unity of God's Church , ' Skarga ...
... Lviv , Polish , and the famous Golden Gate , built in 1037 and named for the Golden Gate in Constantinople . Initially , the Church of the Annunci- ation was built on top of the Golden Gate , which served as a passage through a two ...
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 |