Eighteenth-century Ukraine : new perspectives on social, cultural, and intellectual history / edited by Zenon E. Kohut, Volodymyr Sklokin, and Frank E. Sysyn with Larysa Bilous.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kohut, Zenon E., editor.

Sklokin, Volodymyr, editor.

Sysyn, Frank E., editor.

Bilous, Larysa, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Monograph series (Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research) ; no. 13.

Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research. Monograph series ; number 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ukraine--History--18th century.

Ukraine.

Ukraine--Social conditions--18th century.

Ukraine--Economic conditions--18th century.

Ukraine--Intellectual life--18th century.

Ukraine--Politics and government--18th century.

Ukraine--Relations--Russia.

Russia--Relations--Ukraine.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press ; Edmonton ; Toronto : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, [2023]

Contents:

Cover

Half Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

NOTES

PART ONE: Cossack Autonomies and Their Demise

Chapter 1: Ukraine on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Maps: From the "Wild Field" to the "Country of the Cossacks"

Chapter 2: In Search of "Ukraine" in the Russian Empire (End of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries)

"Rus'-Russia"

"Great Russia/Velikorossiia"

"South Russia"

"Little Russia/Malorossiia"

"Ukraine"

Ethnonyms

Conclusions

Chapter 3: From the "Russian Jerusalem" to the "Slavic Pompeii"

Chapter 4: Catherine II, Evdokim Shcherbinin, and the Abolition of Sloboda Ukraine's Autonomy

The Abolition of Autonomy (1762-65)

Petersburgian Integrationist Plans (1764-65)

Chapter 5: "A Plague on Your Borders": Disease Control and Administrative Reforms in Late Eighteenth-Century Ukraine

Treatment of the Bubonic Plague in Ukraine

Social Turmoil and Lack of Border Security

The Outbreak of Plague in Kyiv: 1770-71

Russian Reforms in Quarantining and Border Security

Administrative and Medical Reforms

Conclusion

Chapter 6: Formation of the Imperial Russia Bureaucratic Class in Steppe Ukraine in the Late Eighteenth Century

Historical Background and the Military Factor

Potemkin: The Kingpin and His Adjutants

The "Gubernial Institutions" Decree, the Zaporozhian Cossack Factor, and Crimea

In the Wake of Potemkin's Death

Staffing Numbers in the Imperial Russian Bureaucracy, and Again the Military Factor

Social Standing in the Steppe Ukraine Imperial Bureaucracy

Demographics in the Imperial Bureaucracy: Age and Health

Payroll Problems and Compensatory Perks

Conclusions

Chapter 7: Identities of Little Russian Society through the Prism of Napoleon's Russian Campaign

PART TWO: Society, Economy, and Demographics

Chapter 8: Colonel of the Zaporozhian Host: The Right to Free Elections in Light of Cossack Traditions, Prescribed Regulations, and Political Realities

Legal Regulations and Political Pronouncements: Regarding the Free Election of Colonels of the Zaporozhian Host

The Will of the Community and the "Supreme Right" of the Hetman in the Election of Colonels: Balance of Interests in Political Practices

The Role of the Regimental Starshyna in Electing Colonels and Stripping Them of the Colonel's Baton

Bribery as an Argument in the Election Process

Chapter 9: Military Reforms during the Hetmancy of Kyrylo Rozumovs'kyi, 1750-64

Chapter 10: "For Deliveries to Tsargrad and Other Neighboring States" (Kyiv Reiters in the Eighteenth Century)

NOTES

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 21, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Eighteenth-century Ukraine.

ISBN:

0228017432

9780228017431

Publisher Number:

40031792769

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