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Author Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-

Title Unmaking imperial Russia : Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the writing of Ukrainian history / Serhii Plokhy
Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 614 pages) : maps, portrait
Contents 1. The historian as nation-builder -- 2. The delimitation of the past -- 3. The construction of a national paradigm -- 4. Negotiating with the Bolsheviks -- 5. Revisiting the revolution -- 6. Class versus nation -- App. Who is hiding the last volume of Hrushevsky's history?
Summary "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 dismantling of the old imperial identity and its historical narrative than the eminent Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866-1934)."
"Hrushevsky took an active part in the work of Ukrainian scholarly, cultural, and political organizations and became the first head of the independent Ukrainian state in 1918. Serhii Plokhy's Unmaking Imperial Russia examines Hrushevsky's construction of a new historical paradigm that brought about the nationalization of the Ukrainian past and established Ukrainian history as a separate field of study. By showing how the 'all-Russian' historical paradigm was challenged by the Ukrainian national project, Plokhy provides the indispensable background for understanding the current state of relations between Ukraine and Russia."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 880-01 Hrushevsʹkyĭ, Mykhaĭlo, 1866-1934.
SUBJECT 880-01/(N Грушевський, Михайло, 1866-1934
Hrushevsʹkyĭ, Mykhaĭlo, 1866-1934 fast
Subject Historians -- Ukraine -- Biography
Statesmen -- Ukraine -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Historians
Statesmen
SUBJECT Ukraine -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Registers of dead
Subject Ukraine
Genre/Form Biographies
Death registers
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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