Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History

by Serhii Plokhy

Book Overview

From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia - as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it - officially held that the Russian nation consisted of three branches: Great Russian, Little Russian (Ukrainian), and White Russian (Belarusian). After the 1917 revolution, this view was discredited by many leading scholars, politicians, and cultural figures, but none were more intimately involved in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442628448
• ISBN13: 9781442628441
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 630 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher