Ukraine and Russia : representations of the past / Serhii Plokhy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Ukraine--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Nationalism--Ukraine--History--19th century.

Ukraine--History--20th century--Historiography.

Ukraine.

Ukraine--History--19th century--Historiography.

Russia--History--20th century.

Russia.

Russia--History--1801-1917.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2008 Gibson Library Connections, 2010).

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The question of where Russian history ends and Ukrainian history begins has not yet received a satisfactory answer. Generations of historians referred to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, as the starting point of the Muscovite dynasty, the Russian state, and, ultimately, the Russian nation. However, the history of Kyiv and that of the Scythians of the Northern Black Sea region have also been claimed by Ukrainian historians, and are now regarded as integral parts of the history of Ukraine. If these are actually the beginnings of Ukrainian history, when does Russian history start?In Ukraine and Russia, Serhii Plokhy discusses many questions fundamental to the formation of modern Russian and Ukrainian historical identity. He investigates the critical role of history in the development of modern national identities and offers historical and cultural insight into the current state of relations between the two nations. Plokhy shows how history has been constructed, used, and misused in order to justify the existence of imperial and modern national projects, and how those projects have influenced the interpretation of history in Russia and Ukraine. This book makes important assertions not only about the conflicts and negotiations inherent to opposing historiographic traditions, but about ways of overcoming the limitations imposed by those traditions.

Contents:

pt. 1. Roots of Entanglement

1. Empire or Nation?

2. Incorporated Identity

3. Ukraine or Little Russia?

4. Missing Mazepa

pt. 2. Between Class and Nation

5. Historian as Nation Builder

6. Renegotiating the Pereiaslav Agreement

7. Bourgeois Revolution or Peasant War?

8. People's History

pt. 3. Post-Soviet Debates

9. History and Territory

10. City of Glory

11. Ghosts of Pereiaslav

12. Remembering Yalta

pt. 4. Search for a New History

13. History of a Non-Historical Nation

14. Imagining Early Modern Ukraine

15. Crossing National Boundaries

16. Beyond Nationality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-372) and index.

ISBN:

1-4426-9193-X

1-4426-8953-6

OCLC:

607750654