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Author Hamm, Michael F., author.

Title Kiev : a portrait, 1800-1917 / Michael F. Hamm
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 304 pages) : illustrations
Contents Ch. I. The Early History of Kiev -- Ch. II. The Growth of Metropolitan Kiev -- Ch. III. Polish Kiev -- Ch. IV. Ukrainians in Russian Kiev -- Ch. V. Jewish Kiev -- Ch. VI. Recreation, the Arts, and Popular Culture in Kiev -- Ch. VII. The Promise of Change: Kiev in 1905 -- Ch. VIII. The Promise Shattered: The October Pogrom -- Ch. IX. The Final Years of Romanov Kiev
Summary In a fascinating ""urban biography, "" Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in late Imperial Russia, and is now the capital of independent Ukraine. After a concise account of Kiev's early history, Hamm focuses on the city's dramatic growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first historian to analyze how each of Kiev's ethnic groups contributed to the vitality of the city's culture, he also ex
Analysis Ukraine History, 1793-1917
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-286) and index
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Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Geschichte 1800-1917.
SUBJECT Kyïv (Ukraine) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072293
Subject Ukraine -- Kyïv
Kiew
Kiev (Ukraine) -- Histoire.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400851515
1400851513
9780691025858
0691025851