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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... Population of 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 ...
... population of fifty thousand or more until the middle of the nine- teenth century . In 1800 one visitor described Kiev as little more than three barely connected , " village - like " settlements : Podil , Pechersk , and High City ...
... population and a history of pogroms , but unlike Kiev was located within the Pale of Settlement . Odessa's Jews did not face the nighttime roundups and expulsions that made late - imperial Kiev notori- ous . I have tried to capture the ...
... population for the year 1200 has been estimated at fifty thousand or more . By comparison , Paris had about fifty thousand inhabitants at that time , while London had an estimated population of thirty thousand.1 Situated at the meeting ...
... population aver- aged no more than ten thousand inhabitants from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries.13 " THE HISTORIC KIEV " If the actual city of Kiev remained " plain and poor , " various leaders com- peted for the right ...
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 |