Ukraine A History, Fourth Edition

Name: Ukraine A History, Fourth Edition
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ISBN: 9781442609914

ISBN-10: 1442609915

ISBN-13: 9781442609914

Edition: 4th 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Orest Subtelny, University of Toronto Press Staff

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In 1988, the first edition of Orest Subtelny's Ukraine was published to international acclaim, as the definitive history of what was at that time a republic in the USSR. In the years since, the world has seen the dismantling of the Soviet bloc and the restoration of Ukraine's independence - an event celebrated by Ukrainians around the world but which also heralded a time of tumultuous change for those in the homeland.While previous updates brought readers up to the year 2000, this new fourth edition includes an overview of Ukraine's most recent history, focusing on the dramatic political, socio-economic, and cultural changes that occurred during the Kuchma and Yushchenko presidencies. It…

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List price: $61.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 11/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 888
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.904
Language: English

Orest Subtelny is a professor in the Departments of History and Political Science at York University.



Maps


Preface to the fourth edition


Preface to the third edition


Preface to the second edition


Preface to the first edition


Introduction: The Earliest Times



Kievan Rus'



The Rise and Decline of Kievan Rus'



The Society and Culture of Kievan Rus'



Galicia-Volhynia



The Polish-Lithuanian Period



Under Polish and Lithuanian Rule



Social Structure and Economic Change



Religion and Culture



The Cossack Era



The Formative Phase



The Great Revolt



The Ruin



The Hetmanate



Society, Economics, and Culture



Ukraine under Imperial Rule



Russian and Austrian Imperial Rule in Ukraine



The Growth of National Consciousness



Imperial Reforms



Socioeconomic Change



Intelligentsia Activism



Eastern Galicia: A Bastion of Ukrainianism



Twentieth-Century Ukraine



War and Revolution



The Ukrainian Revolution



Soviet Ukraine: The Innovative Twenties



Soviet Ukraine: The Traumatic Thirties



Western Ukraine between the Wars



Ukraine during the Second World War



Reconstruction and Retrenchment



The Thaw



Stagnation and Attempts at Reform



The Immigrants



The Ukrainian Diaspora



The New Era



The Troubled Transition



The Age of Globalization


Notes


Abbreviations


Glossary


Selected readings in English


Index