The Cossack myth [electronic resource] : history and nationhood in the age of empires / Serhii Plokhy.

9781139526173 electronic book
1139526170 electronic book
9781107022102
110702210X
9781139135399 electronic book
1139135392 electronic book

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2012]

English

1 online resource (xi, 386 p.) : maps.

9786613887214

DK508.46 .P55 2012eb

947.7/00491714

"In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled 'The History of the Rus,' it became one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era. Attributed to an eighteenth-century Orthodox archbishop, it described the heroic struggles of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Alexander Pushkin read the book as a manifestation of Russian national spirit, but Taras Shevchenko interpreted it as a quest for Ukrainian national liberation and it would inspire thousands of Ukrainians to fight for the freedom of their homeland. Serhii Plokhy tells the fascinating story of the text's discovery and dissemination unravelling the mystery of its authorship and tracing its subsequent impact on Russian and Ukrainian historical and literary imagination. In so doing he brilliantly illuminates the relationship between history, myth, empire and nationhood from Napoleonic times to the fall of the Soviet Union"-- Provided by publisher.

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