Ukraine: Its History and People (до Дня Української Державності)

Elected successor to Ivan Mazepa in 1710, Hetman Pylyp Orlyk led the Ukrainians who had emigrated after the Battle of Poltava in the struggle against Russian domination.

His diary, spanning the years 1720–1733, constitutes an invaluable guide to Orlyk’s personality, his travels, and his politics. It also includes copies of several hundred items of correspondence both of a political and personal nature.

The present facsimile edition of the Diariusz Podrozny, which has never been published in full, appears in three parts.

The first, covering the years 1720–1726, is of special interest, since it describes Orlyk’s peregrinations through Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Poland, and, finally, the Ottoman Empire, where Orlyk was to remain interned from 1722.

The introduction by Orest Subtelny provides an overview of Orlyk’s biography, the contents of his Diariusz, and its place in historiography.

This continuation of Pylyp Orlyk’s Diariusz Podrozny encompasses the dramatic years 1727–1731.

From his “honorary” confinement in Ottoman Thessalonica, the Ukrainian Hetman-in-exile tried to influence on his behalf the European powers whose representatives were gathered at the Congress of Suissons.

To this end, Pylyp Orlyk managed to use the services of France, England, the Netherlands, and especially Sweden and Holstein, who served as his intermediaries with Russia.

Of special interest are Orlyk’s entries for 1729–1730. It was at this time that Pylyp’s son Hryhor quit his military service with King August 11 of Saxony–Poland and became an important player in France’s relations with the East. Father and son met in Thessalonica in 1730 and henceforth cooperated in furthering their respective political ventures.

The preface by Omeljan Pritsak places the Diariusz within the context of Orlyk’s vision of the Ukraine’s past, present, and future.

Hryhorij Hrabjanka’s The Great War of Bohdan Xmel’nyc’kyi is one of several Cossack chronicles that transformed the nature of written Ukrainian history in the early eighteenth century.

Written in 1710, Hrabjanka’s chronicle deals with the revolution of Hetman Bohdan Xmel’nyc’kyi and its aftermath. In his introduction Yuri Lutsenko demonstrates that the work is not so much a chronicle in the traditional sense, but rather a well-written dramatic account of events intended to glorify the achievements of the Cossacks.

This volume contains facsimiles of two manuscript versions of the chronicle, as well as two published versions that have become bibliographic rarities.

In ca. 1307, three Old Rus’ chronicles— the Pověst’ vremennykh lět (Tale of Bygone Years, covering the years 872–1117), Kievan Chronicle (for the years 1119–1199), and the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle (for the years 1205–1289)—were joined together.

These three component parts have come down to us only in the form of a compilation (datable to ca. 1425) which scholars have named the Hypatian Chronicle.

Of the five extant witnesses of the Hypatian Chronicle, the so-called Xlebnikov codex occupies a special place.

It was most probably copied in Volhynia during the second half of the sixteenth century for Prince Kostjantyn Ostroz’kyj.

The so-called Pogodin codex, closely related to the Xlebnikov, was copied in 1621 in Žyvotiv for Prince Stefan Svjatopolk-Cetvertyns’kyj.

Both the Ostroz’kyj and Cetvertyns’kyj codices appear here for the first time in facsimile. Until now they have been known only from footnotes to editions of the Hypatian Chronicle.

The book «Re-Vision of History» has two main pillars: an analysis of the key narratives of Russian historical propaganda about Ukraine, and comments on those narratives from Ukrainian historians.

These narratives were identified within the analysis of the Russian Internet segment, which was carried out with the help of neural networks and other methods of machine learning.

The book consists of six main narratives with respective messages and sub-messages demonstrating how Russia re-interprets Ukrainian history in order to justify its military aggression.

The book also contains responses of Ukrainian historians to these narratives and messages, in particular an analysis provided by experts of the project LikBez: Historical Front, and a conversation with well-known Ukrainian historian and intellectual Yaroslav Hrytsak

This book is a requiem. It is a tribute to those participants in the Revolution of Dignity who gave their hearts’ blood so that Ukraine and all of us Ukrainians could raise from our knees.

So that we could start to change our country, and our posterity could have a chance to live in a new Ukraine.

The characters of this book are ordinary people from all over this country who come from all walks of life — migrant workers, scientific researchers, private entrepreneurs, school teachers… If it hadn’t been for the Maidan, they wouldn’t have met each other. It is the Maidan that united them and turned them into brothers-inarms and warriors of light.

This book was written to ensure that the memory of the great act of self-sacrifice of the heroes of the Celestial Hundred never dies and lives forever in the hearts of Ukrainians.

This book is the silent reminder to us all about the price that was paid for our freedom and for a chance for our Motherland to become a truly European country.

Це книга-реквієм. Книга-посвята тим учасникам Революції гідності, які віддали найцінніше – своє життя – заради того, аби Україна та всі ми встали з колін. Щоб почали змінювати свою державу, а наші діти та онуки дістали змогу жити в іншій країні.

Герої цієї книги – звичайні люди з різних куточків нашої держави. Вони дуже різні – заробітчани, науковці, підприємці, вчителі… Якби не Майдан, вони б ніколи не зустрілися. Це він об’єднав їх, зробив побратимами та «воїнами світла».

Ця книга була написана заради того, аби пам’ять про величезну самопожертву героїв Небесної сотні назавжди залишилася в серцях українців.

Вона – німе нагадування всім нам про те, якою ціною ми здобули свободу та новий шанс для своєї країни стати справжньою європейською державою.

This book is a collection of texts by contemporary Ukrainian intellectuals: writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, opinion leaders.

The texts have been written for the international audience.

The collection combines reflections on Ukraine’s history (or histories, in plural), and analysis of the present, conceptual ideas and life stories.

The book presents a multi-faceted image of Ukrainian memory and reality: from the Holodomor to Maidan, from Russian aggression to cultural diversity, from the depth of the past to the complexity of the present.

Даний навчальний посібник призначається студентам історичних факультетів, що вивчають англійську мову та одержують вищу освіту за ступенями бакалавр та магістр.

До посібника включені матеріали, що дають змогу вдосконалити навички опрацювання текстів зі спеціальності та вміння вилучати необхідну інформацію з фахової літератури.

Збірник включає тематично пов’язані тексти про Україну з оригінальних англомовних видань, а також вправи для контролю розуміння змісту текстів, контрольні запитання до кожної теми та тематичні словники.

Посібник призначений для студентів вищих навчальних закладів, учнів загальноосвітніх шкіл, ліцеїв, гімназій, коледжів, де вивчають англійську мову.

Видання присвячене історії Запорізького козацтва, яке неможливо відокремити від морських походів та битв, через що вона одночасно є історією Запорізького козацького флоту.

За допомогою флоту з кінця XV до кінця XVIII століття у Чорноморському регіоні козацтво вирішувало історичні завдання протистояння і взаємодії західної та східної цивілізацій та захисту українського народу від знищення.

З огляду на це автор вважає штучним зведення історії легендарних козацьких суден чайок та козацьких морських походів лише до XVI – XVII століть.

Доки на півдні України, на перетині напрямків експансії Речі Посполитої, Османської та Російської імперій, існувало козацтво, його флот залишався суттєвим чинником геополітичних перетворень у Північному Причорномор’ї та Приазов’ї.

Книга розрахована на всіх, хто цікавиться історією Запорізького козацтва та України.

This book sets out Ukraine’s history from antiquity to the present day, offering a condensed overview of the turbulent history of this European country.

This book will help answer the following questions: What is Ukraine, a country which has recently been much talked about in the world? How has Europe become precisely as we see it now?

An historical study of the contest for the legacy of Kievan Rus.

This contest was conducted by the various Slav states – Russia, the Ukraine and Poland – with the aim of establishing direct historical continuity to Kievan Rus in order to validate their claims to its legacy.

The first half of the twentieth century was in many respects crucial for the evolution and character of Modern Standard Ukrainian.

Prior to World War I, the Ukraine was divided between the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian Empires. The standard language lacked uniformity even though the primacy of the standard established in Russian-dominated Ukraine was theoretically accepted in Austrian-ruled Galicia and Bukovina.

Up to 1905 the tsarist government forbade the public use of Ukrainian beyond belles-lettres, and excluded it from education until 1917.

In the interwar period the country was divided among the USSR, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, and social and cultural conditions differed drastically.

George Shevelov’s book, based on extensive study of factual material, traces the development of Modern Standard Ukrainian in relation to the political, legal, and cultural conditions within each region.

It examines the relation of the standard language to the underlying dialects, the ways in which the standard language was enriched, and the complex struggle for the unity of the language and sometimes for its very existence.

While shunning excess linguistic terminology, the book presents the essentials of linguistic development in connection with broad political and cultural conditions.

The history of Ukraine resembles a half-uncharted map. This is not a mere coincidence, but the result of the deliberate public policy.

Hundreds of various people serving their mother countries have been working hard on those blank spots for centuries.

Those myth and fake news makers have done their best to make our history, as well as Ukraine itself, look in descendants’ eyes the way preferred by those who tried to assimilate the heritage of Kyivan Rus. However, time always puts everything in its place.

So this book is an attempt to collect the events that have shaped the Ukraine we know today and will promote its further development.

We sought to focus on positive events in Ukrainian history, in other words, on victories. The image of our country as a helpless continuously suffering victim that always sings sad songs and is incapable of confronting external pressure has been exploited for a long time.

In fact, an insight into the actual history of Ukraine proves this image to be false. The voice of the past provides us with dozens of chronicles, documents and historical studies. Courageous heroes, strong warriors, talented artists, prominent statesmen, unrivalled philosophers and scholars — those have been the people creating our history. And, naturally, they and their achievements must be revealed and popularized.

This work is an effort to unite in a single volume the highlights of our historic heritage and show that, against all odds, Ukraine remembers its past and intends to build its own bright future, considering the extensive rich experience that has been gained.

The remarkable popular protest in Kiev and across Ukraine following the cooked presidential election of November 2004 has transformed the politics of eastern Europe.

Andrew Wilson witnessed the events firsthand and here looks behind the headlines to ascertain what really happened and how it will affect the future of the region.

It is a dramatic story: an outgoing president implicated via secret tape-recordings in corruption and murder; a shadowy world of political cheats and manipulators; the massive covert involvement of Putin’s Russia; the poisoning of the opposition challenger; and finally the mass protest of half a million Ukrainians that forced a second poll and the victory of Viktor Yushchenko.

As well as giving an account of the election and its aftermath, the book examines the broader implications of the Orange Revolution and of Russia’s serious miscalculation of its level of influence. It explores the likely chain reaction in Moldova, Belarus, and the nervous autocracies of the Caucasus, and points to a historical transformation of the geopolitics of Eurasia.

The book looks in close detail at the leaders of the Orange Revolution, and questions whether they can deliver the radical changes promised.