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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... began to organize and edit a collection of essays on Russian and Soviet cities , published in 1976 under the title The City in Russian His- tory , I became acutely aware of the need for detailed biographies of indi- vidual cities ...
... began a process of decline , aided by the demise of its trading partners , the Abassid Caliphate , which fell prey to the Mongols , and By- zantium , sacked by the crusaders in 1204. During the twelfth century , at least a dozen ...
... began to lose students and in 1817 became a theological seminary . In summarizing its significance , Alexander Sydorenko contends that until the mid - eighteenth century , the Kiev Academy ranked as " the foremost intellectual center of ...
... began in mid - January and lasted for about three weeks . During these weeks , private homes were turned into shops , and sometimes into hotels , and the city's economy boomed.4 At the turn of the nineteenth century , however , Kiev ...
... began to disappear in the eigh- teenth century . 10 Perhaps Nicholas I saw in Kiev the city described by Ivan Sbitnev : Most of the huts are decrepit , whether in Pechersk. THE END OF MAGDEBURG AUTONOMY 6. View of Old Kiev ( High City ) ...
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 |