Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653

by Frank E. Sysyn

The collapse of Polish rule in the Ukraine in the mid-seventeenth century changed the course of East European history. The great Cossack revolt of 1648 exposed the weaknesses of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the emergence of a Ukrainian polity, a struggle for dominance ensued, paving the way for the Russian annexation of the Ukraine. Frank Sysyn examines the failure of Polish policy through the career of Adam Kysil. A leader of the Ukrainian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916458083
• ISBN13: 9780916458089
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.