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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... city's socialist movement ; and the upheavals of 1905 , which shook the foundation of the imperial order . I devote considerable atten- tion to the ethnic and ethnoreligious composition of the city and the ex- tent to which various ...
... city . However , Poles contributed mightily to its culture and eco- nomic life , and Polish national goals were a ... city's main neighborhoods - Podil , Khreshchatyk , Shuliavka , and others ; profile some of the personalities who ...
... city directories , yearly provincial surveys , and reports from Kiev's municipal administration provide useful information . The publications of the Kiev Stock Exchange chronicled the city's commercial growth . The Literacy Society ...
... city's welfare institutions . Newspapers pub- lished statistics , some of them official , some compiled by local reporters . As time passed , the number of city newspapers increased , and coverage of local news expanded . Journalists ...
... city's history . Although my questions had been nonpolitical and inoffensive , she tearfully explained that Kiev's KGB had a particularly notorious reputation and that the city was a very intimidating place for guides . In the spring of ...
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 |