[aaus-list] New volume of Hrushevsky's History in English

[by way of Robert DeLossa]

Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press and
the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research
present

MYKHAILO HRUSHEVSKY
HISTORY OF UKRAINE-RUS'
Volume 9, book 2, part 1: The Cossack Age, 1654-1657
lxvi 566 pp. 3 maps, 1 photograph


$119.95 (cloth)

http://www.utoronto.ca/cius/publications/books/hrushevskyv921.htm

[Libraries are entitled to a 20% discount.]


The ninth volume of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's monumental HISTORY OF
UKRAINE-RUS' is by far the longest in the ten-volume series. Written in the
late 1920s, after Hrushevsky had returned to Ukraine from exile, the volume
is based mainly on a wealth of documents gathered by Hrushevsky and his
students in the Moscow archives. Many of these documents were little used
or unknown to previous historians.

The pivotal event in volume 9, book 2, part 1 of the History is the
PEREIASLAV AGREEMENT of 1654, which brought Cossack Ukraine under a
Muscovite protectorate. Needing military assistance to continue the
struggle with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, against which the Cossack
Host and much of the Ukrainian populace had rebelled in 1648, Hetman Bohdan
Khmelnytsky was prepared to make an agreement that brought Muscovy into the
conflict on terms favorable to the Cossacks. Hrushevsky analyzes the
diplomatic and military developments that led up to the agreement, and in
chapter 7 he presents the most detailed and thoughtful treatment in modern
historiography of the Pereiaslav Council of January 1654 and the subsequent
understandings with Moscow. In his discussion Hrushevsky deals not only
with previous historiography and the documentary record, which is
incomplete, but also with the negotiations, taking account of the
conflicting motivations of the two sides.

The subsequent chapters trace the difficult course of Cossack Ukraine's
relations with Muscovy in 1654-55: the joint military campaign against the
Commonwealth, which almost led to disaster because of poor coordination;
the Cossack leadership's efforts to take control of the western Ukrainian
and southern Belarusian lands; the ferocious battle of Dryzhypil; and the
devastation of the Bratslav region by Polish and Tatar forces, against
which Muscovy provided no effective protection. On the basis of the travel
diary of Paul of Aleppo, a Syrian cleric, Hrushevsky gives an account of
daily life in Ukraine at the time, with many details unavailable in other
sources. Unparalleled in breadth of research, Hrushevsky's work brings to
life a turbulent and politically decisive period in the life of the
Ukrainian people.

The volume, translated by Marta Daria Olynyk, includes an extensive
historical introduction, a full bibliography of the sources used by
Hrushevsky, 3 maps, and an index. The preparation of this volume for
publication was funded by a generous donation from Mrs. Daria
Mucak-Kowalsky (Etobicoke, Ontario) in memory of her husband, Mykhailo
Kowalsky.


About the Author
Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866-1934) was Ukraine's greatest historian. His
academic career began at Kyiv University, where in 1890 he graduated from
the Department of History and Philology. Appointed professor of history at
Lviv University in 1894, he became a leading figure in the Shevchenko
Scientific Society and in the scholarly and cultural community centered in
Lviv. In 1918, he was head of the government of the independent Ukrainian
republic. From 1924 to 1931, in Kyiv, he organized historical studies at
the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. An extraordinarily prolific writer, he
produced some 2,000 scholarly works. His magnum opus, the Istoriia
Ukraïny-Rusy (History of Ukraine-Rus'), appeared between 1898 and 1937.
These ten published volumes (in eleven books) trace Ukrainian history from
the earliest times to the post-Khmelnytsky era in the late 1650s. The
History was internationally acclaimed at the time of its publication, but
in Soviet Ukraine after the 1930s no scholarly references to it were
permitted to appear. Attempts in the 1960s to "rehabilitate" Hrushevsky and
his works failed, and it was only in the late 1980s that the Ukrainian
public began to regain access to the History.



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