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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... century population of fifty thousand or more until the middle of the nine- teenth century . In 1800 one visitor ... nineteenth century , Kiev had a continuous pop- ulation of about twenty thousand people . By 1869–1870 , when the rail ...
... nineteenth century , but Poles contributed less significantly to the cultures of these cities , and Pol- ish national objectives remained peripheral to their politics . Odessa had a large Jewish population and a history of pogroms , but ...
... nineteenth century . Relying on records from church parishes , Kiev statistician Ivan Pantiukhov compiled and published data on public health , mortality , and marriage for certain years before 1870. The Ukrainophile Kievskaia starina ...
... ninth century as a commercial hub on the trade routes con- necting Europe , the Eastern Christian empire known as Byzantium with its capital at Constantinople , the glorious Abassid Moslem empire ruled from Baghdad , and the Khazar ...
... nineteenth century . From the destruction of the High City by the Mongols in 1240 until the early decades of the nineteenth century , Podil was Kiev's population cen- ter , and , in fact , Kiev and Podil were virtually synonymous . Ivan ...
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 |