Kiev : a portrait, 1800-1917 / Michael F. Hamm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamm, Michael F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kyïv (Ukraine)--History.

Kyïv (Ukraine).

Kyïv (Ukraine)--Social conditions.

Ukraine--History--1775-1917.

Ukraine.

Geschichte 1800-1917.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 304 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

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 examines the violent conflicts that developed among them. In vivid detail, he shows why Kiev came to be known for its "abundance of revolutionaries" and its anti-Semitic violence.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES

PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. The Early History of Kiev

CHAPTER II. The Growth of Metropolitan Kiev

CHAPTER III. Polish Kiev

CHAPTER IV. Ukrainians in Russian Kiev

CHAPTER V. Jewish Kiev

CHAPTER VI. Recreation, the Arts, and Popular Culture in Kiev

CHAPTER VII. The Promise of Change: Kiev in 1905

CHAPTER VIII. The Promise Shattered: The October Pogrom

CHAPTER IX. The Final Years of Romanov Kiev

CONCLUSION

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4008-5151-3

OCLC:

875096243