Eighteenth-century Ukraine : new perspectives on social, cultural, and intellectual history / edited by Zenon E. Kohut [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kohut, Zenon E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Russia--Relations--Ukraine.

Russia.

Ukraine--Economic conditions--18th century.

Ukraine.

Ukraine--History--18th century.

Ukraine--Intellectual life--18th century.

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

Ukraine--Relations--Russia.

Ukraine--Social conditions--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (669 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, [2023]

Summary:

In 1648, the Cossack revolution of Eastern Europe established a new social and political order that endured until the early nineteenth century. Eighteenth-Century Ukraine provides an innovative reassessment of this crucial period and reflects new developments in the study of eighteenth-century Ukrainian social and cultural history.

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

NOTES.

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)

Chapter 11: The Cossack Starshyna of Sloboda Ukraine in the Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries: The "Family Clan" and Attainment of Social Status

The Father Looks After the Interests of the Son or the Father's Concern for the Son

Looking After the Children of the "Family"

"The Bad Aspects of the Old Cossack Way of Life"

Chapter 12: Regimental Cities of the Hetmanate in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: Governance, Economy, Demography

The Regimental City as the Seat of the Local Administration

Municipal Self-Governance

Economic Development

Aspects of the Demographic Portrait of the Urban Population of the Hetmanate in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 13: Population Distribution of the City of Poltava in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century by Age, Sex, and Marital Status

Sources

Sex-Age Composition of the Population.

Age Difference

Characteristics of the "Marriage Market"

PART THREE: Church, Culture, and Education

Chapter 14: The Challenges of Unification and Disciplining Facing the Kyiv Orthodox Metropolitanate in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Book Publishing

Chapter 15: The Uniate Church in Right-Bank Ukraine in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century: Paradoxes of Regional Adaptation

Historiographical Observations: The Uniate Church as a Cocreator of the Ukrainian Eighteenth Century

The Zhytomyr Union of 1715: Ecclesiastical Status of Right-Bank Ukraine and the Establishment of the Jurisdiction of Metropolitan Lev Kyshka in the Kyiv Region

The Institutional Confessionalization of the Region and the Formation of the Right-Bank Model of Slavia Unita

Intercultural Communication and the Problem of the Common Sociocultural Space of "Divided Rus'"

From the Eucharistic Model to Territorial Administration: Sacred Space of the Bratslav and Southern Kyiv Regions and Territorial Patriotism

Chapter 16: The Teaching of Philosophy at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy at the End of the Seventeenth to Eighteenth Century

Chapter 17: Orthodox Colleges in the Russian Empire (Second Half of the Eighteenth to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century): Between Traditions and Innovations

PART FOUR: Political and Historical Thought

Chapter 18: "Rulers of the Fatherland": The Hetmanate's Cossack and Church Elite's Concepts of the Nature, Representation, and Obligations of Authority (Up to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century)

"Division of powers" between the Anointed Sovereign and the Hetman

The Hetman and the "People"

Chapter 19: Fatherland in Early Eighteenth-Century Ukrainian Political Culture

Chapter 20: The Development of a Little Russian Identity and Ukrainian Nation-Building

Chapter 21: Constitutio Medievalis: The Politics of Language and the Language of Politics in the 1710 Constitution

The Power of Latin

Framing the Charter: Constitutio, Pacta Conventa, and Conventa Pactorum

The Primacy of Ethnicity: Gens, Patria, Populus

Cities and Territoriality: "Urbs" and Magdeburg Law

Chapter 22: "In the Name of the Beloved Fatherland": The Loyalty and Treason of Ivan Mazepa

Chapter 23: Cossack Historiography: A Vision of the Past and the Construction of Identities in the Hetmanate in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Ethnogenesis: The Khazar Myth

Perceptions of the Territory: "Our" Land

Heroes and Antiheroes in Cossack Historiography

"Others" in the Hetmanate's Historical Narratives

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-1743-2

OCLC:

1348598773