aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Hrushevsky's History of Rus'-Ukraine, vol. 8

[Robert De Lossa <radelo@earthlink.net>]

[from Bohdan Klid <Bohdan.Klid@ualberta.ca>]

Volume 8 of Hrushevsky's "History of Ukraine-Rus'" Published in 
English Translation


Volume 8 of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's History of Ukraine-Rus' has just 
been published. Entitled "The Cossack Age, 1626-1650," the handsomely 
bound book (lxxv, 808 pp.) is the third volume of the English 
translation of Hrushevsky's monumental Istoriia Ukraïny-Rusy to 
appear in print. The English-language edition of the classic 
ten-volume work is produced by the Hrushevsky Translation Project of 
the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research and 
published by CIUS Press. The Centre and the Press are units of the 
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), University of 
Alberta, which also has offices at the University of Toronto.
	In "The Cossack Age, 1626-1650," Hrushevsky gives a complete 
account of the Ukrainian Cossacks from their defeat at Lake Kurukove 
to their reemergence under Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky as the 
"elemental force" in Ukrainian history. Here he deals with the 
attempts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commmonwealth to reach an 
accommodation with the Cossacks and the Orthodox Church and includes 
an analysis of the era of Metropolitan Petro Mohyla. He goes on to 
examine the causes and outbreak of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, the 
personality of Hetman Khmelnytsky, and the uprising's early phase and 
climactic years of 1648-49, when it represented the interests of the 
Cossack and peasant masses. He concludes the volume with a discussion 
of the failure of the Zboriv Agreement and the Cossacks' decision to 
break completely with the Commonwealth.
	Based on an exhaustive examination of the sources and 
scholarly literature, Hrushevsky's volume stands as the most 
comprehensive account of this dramatic period in Ukrainian history. 
The master historian provides a wealth of scholarly and 
bibliographical information, which the editors have supplemented with 
bibliographic updates. The English edition includes a new compilation 
of all sources and publications used by Hrushevsky, a comprehensive 
index, and 4 maps, including a fold-out map indicating the territory 
and course of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Ukraine's central role in the 
international politics of the time makes the volume important to 
specialists and students of East European, Central European, Ottoman, 
Russian, and Jewish history, as well as to those studying revolution 
and state-building in early modern Europe.
	The preparation of The Cossack Age, 1626-1650 was funded by a 
generous donation from Hanna Moroz-Mazurenko of Toronto in memory of 
her husband, Danylo Mazurenko. A translation grant was provided by 
the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. The 
volume was translated by Marta Daria Olynyk, a Montreal-based editor 
and translator. Frank E. Sysyn, director of the Jacyk Centre and 
editor in chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project, served as the 
volume's consulting editor and wrote the extensive introduction 
assessing the volume's place in Ukrainian historiography. Myroslav 
Yurkevich edited the volume. Other editors included Serhii Plokhy, 
Uliana M. Pasicznyk, Marta Horban-Carynnyk, Marko Stech, Andrij 
Hornjatkevy…, Dushan Bednarsky, Tania Plawuszczak-Stech, Olena 
Plokhy, and Lada Bassa. Andrii Grechylo and Iaroslav Fedoruk worked 
on the bibliography and updates. Scholarly consultants included Ihor 
Sevcenko, Maria Subtelny, Victor Ostapchuk, Jeffrey Wills, David 
Frick, Paulina Lewin, and Nicolae Pavliuc.

The volume may be ordered from CIUS Press, 450 Athabasca Hall, 
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E8. Fax (780) 
492-4967; e-mail: cius@ualberta.ca. To the end of May 2003, the 
volume is available for the special price of $90, shipping included 
(in Canada GST is included; outside Canada the price is in U.S. 
dollars). Subscription to the ten volumes (in 11 books) of the entire 
History of Ukraine-Rus' is also being made available at the special 
price of $1,000. After May 2003, the price of volume 8 will be 
$119.95, and the subscription price will revert to $1,200.

>Bohdan Klid, Ph.D.
>Research Scholar and Assistant to the Director
>Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8, Canada
>Tel: (780) 492-6857, -2972; Fax: (780) 492-4967
http://www.ualberta.ca/cius