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Good "Soviet side" history
Very good history of a small corner of a much larger history.Missing in this account is details from the German point of view.It would have been a nice balance to see the operations as both sides saw them occuring and their reactions to them.

The maps were useful but not handy enough as they were compiled in the back of the book.

Division level account of battle
This is a division/corp level account of the battle.It has some interesting views.The maps lack detail in many cases.

First of many ?
This book is, I hope, the first of many to cover the early Barbarossa battles as more sources become available to researchers. The details I wanted is here with accounts from participants and low level details of terrain and local actions. There are some nice photos to acompany the text. A book dealing with a military campaign should, however, have maps - good maps. The maps in this book are poor and not placed where they can be best used as the reader progresses throught the text.
The text is also a problem in places. The author is a US citizen but has not mastered English. The grammar smacks of literal translation from Russian in places. This could be because of lazy paraphrasing of Russian and Ukranian sources. This fact makes one think that the book leans heavily on some few unit histories in Russian as it does make liberal use of a few memoirs and unit histories in German. However, a good read about gripping days of Barbarossa which shows the Germans not having it all their own way and the Russians fighting valiantly against two enemies while handicapped by their own clumsy military.

A Good Book on Some Ukraine Battles in 1941 from the Soviet Side
This is a very worthwhile book adding a substantial amount of information for English readers concerning Soviet defensive actions in the western Ukraine during the opening months of Operation Barbarossa.One of the many books coming out now that the Soviets have allowed a certain amount of access to their archives, this work should be read as a counterpoint to the many books that have long been available from the German side.There is much to learn here concerning the Soviet command structures, their operation, and coordination (or lack thereof) between units, combined arms, air power and logistics.In particular, the tank formations are discussed at length along with the capabilities and numbers of each type of tank.

OK, so I liked the book and learned something.On the other hand, the editing was awful, and it was often difficult to follow the battles in the narrative.Units would appear, disappear, and then re-appear in a disconcerting fashion, and it was even difficult to follow the commanders as they faced their daily crises.The maps were somewhat useful, but with a relatively small area being covered, smaller scale maps would have been more helpful.

One of my big complaints was that the end notes were often useless.For example, Note 2 for Chapter 1 says "Halder, 337."Unfortunately the bibliography does not list a book or article by Halder, so I have nowhere to go.To my surprise I did not see a number of references I would have expected, and a clear majority of just the German references were unknown to me.I don't mean to sound arrogant, but the bibliography seemed to be skewed to the obscure and missing many of the newer and standard references.Frankly, the end notes need to be improved and fleshed out to provide more confirming source information and point the way for the reader to perform further research.

At any rate, I recommend this book to everyone interested in the Eastern Front.It presents an almost unique view of a segment of the frontier battles from the Soviet side.Pending more investigation and research on my part, however, I'm going to have to take the author's word for much of what he presents.

Written with clarity
Little reported, rarely written about, the Bloody Triangle formed by Ukrainian towns of Lutsk, Dubno and Brody, was scene of what became the second largest tank battle of Operation Barbarossa. Between June 24, to July 1, 1941, some 2500 tanks, tank destroyers and artillery face each other, the Russians losing. The German Panzers moved on to the siege of Leningrad, the bloodletting at Stalingrad to end at the battle of Kursk, where the Germans were defeated in the largest tank battle in history.

Author Kamenir has taken on a large topic for his first book, an important battle which helped the Russians gain time to gather forces to eventually defeat the Germans at Kursk. He writes with clarity, keeping me on task and reminds me occasionally that I need help keeping the units and geography straight and the dates in order.

The Germans did not learn from their victory at the triangle, and the Russians began recognizing weakness and produced a large armored force, capable of holding at Stalingrad and winning at Kursk.

The research was admittedly weighed toward the Russians so we see a bit different picture of the Operation.

Victor J. Kamenir, I look forward to your next book. Hopefully you will take us further on the war on the Eastern front.

Richard N. Larsen
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Available for the first time in English, here's the gripping story of Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno. With his usual wit and engaging style, Skirda chronicles the life of a legend and the insurgent army that fought in his name. Always controversial, Makhno has been described as everything from a drunken bandit to an inspirational hero. From Makhno's imprisonment, to battles with the Bolsheviks and the White Army, to the final exile in Paris, Skirda captures the life of Makhno and the history of the Makhnovist movement.

Alexandre Skirda is the foremost anarchist theorist and activist writing in Europe today.

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A fascinating and little known piece of history from the Bolshevik Revolution
Nestor Makhno led an Anarchist movement (the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of the Ukraine, aka the Black Army) which controlled much of the Ukraine for a time following the Bolshevik Revolution and fought both the Reds and the Whites for an independent and Anarchist Ukraine. It's a fascinating story, well-written and as far as I can ascertain, historically accurate. In the end, Makhno's forces were betrayed and destroyed by the Red's - a betrayal of the Anarchists by the Communists that would be repeated in the Spanish Civil War. Anyhows, backto this book and the Ukraine: a summation of the story follows:

The Black Army was an anarchist army formed in September 1918 in the Ukraine during the Russian Civil War. Arms and equipment were largely obtained from retreating Austro-Hungarian and German forces. During the Civil War, the Black Army numbered between 15,000 and 110,000 men and was organized on conventional lines, with infantry, cavalry, and artillery units. Makhno's cavalry was considered to be among the best trained and most capable of any of the cavalry units deployed by any side in the Russian Civil War. A primary obstacle to the Ukrainian anarchist army, and one which it never overcame throughout its existence, was a lack of access to industrial manufacturing resources, specifically factories capable of producing large amounts of arms and ammunition. The Black Army was forced to rely on captured supplies from enemy forces, along with food and horses from the local civilian population.

The Black Army enjoyed early successes - by early 1919, the Bolsheviks had withdrawn most Red Army forces from Ukraine after White successes in the south. In July, 1919, 40,000 Red Army troops in the Crimea mutinied,deposed their commanders and many set out to join the Black Army. The mutiny was organized by some of Makhno's anarchist comrades who had remained commanders in the ranks of the Red Army, including Kalashnikov, Dermendzhi, and Budanov; these men also planned the transfer of forces. For the Bolshevik government in Moscow, this defection was a major blow; since almost nothing remained of the Red Army in the southern Ukraine and the Crimea, Bolshevik influence in the area became nonexistent.

In late 1919,Makhno reached an agreement with the Bolsheviks to fight together against the Whites under Deniken, who were advancing towards Moscow. Makhno's attacks on the Whites diverted strength from the attack on Moscow and interrupted Deniken's supply lines - some historians note that if Makhno and the anarchist forces had not won a decisive victory at Peregonovka, blockading General Denikin's lines of supply and denying the White Army supplies of food, ammunition, and artillery reinforcements, the White Army would probably have entered Moscow in December 1919.

After the victories over General Denikin and the White Army, the Bolshevika repudiated its alliance with Makhno, repeatedly attacking concentrations of Black Army troops, ordering Chekist and Red Army reprisals against those believed sympathetic to the anarchists and using their vastly superior forces to steadily reduce areas of Russia under anarchist control. By 1920 Leon Trotsky had resorted to terror tactics, ordering the execution of thousands of Ukrainian villagers and peasants loyal to Makhno's Black Army. Trotsky also intentionally withdrew Red Army troops from their positions on the southern front, allowing Tsarist Cossack forces to overrun the southern Ukraine. At first, Makhno and the Black Army retreated, then counterattacked surprised General Wrangel's White regiments in the southern Ukraine. In late 1920 the Bolsheviks signed a new agreement with Makhno, planning a common military strategy against Wrangel's forces. After pressure by Makhnov over delays, details of the treaty were published.

It soon became clear why the Bolseheviks had resisted the publicizing of the Bolshevik-Makhnovist treaty. On November 26, 1920, less than two weeks after completing their successful offensive against General Wrangel's White Army in the Crimea, Makhno's headquarters staff and several Black Army subordinate commanders arrived at Red Army Southern Front headquarters to participate in a joint planning conference with Red Army commanders. Upon arrival, they were arrested and executed on the spot by a Red Army firing squad; the Makhnovist treaty delegation, still in Kharkov, was also arrested and liquidated. Makhno continued to fight on, but the peasants of Ukraine, dispirited by three years of war, food seizures, reprisals, and outright genocide, no longer flocked to join the Black Army in numbers. Makhno's final Black Army forces were defeated and dispersed in August 1921. With a small number of men, he managed to slip across the Romanian border into exile. Exiles from the makhnovist army formed part of an International brigade during the Spanish Civil War These Ukrainians were part of a company commanded by "Lieutenant Shevchenko" within the Battalion Mickiewicz-Palafox of the XIII International Brigade or Dabrowski Brigade, which crossed the Pyrenees after the fall of Catalonia, and who participated in the resistance movement against the Nazis.

According to the Franco-Bulgarian historian, Frank Mintz, during the Second World War, the Makhnovists reappeared - "Ukrainian guerrilla groups still brandish the black flag inthe fight against the Nazis and the Stalinists."


My recommendation - get the book and read it, it's truely fascinating.And if you enjoy this one, try the following:
Makhno
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
My Disillusionment In RussiaThe Struggle Against the State and Other Essays
Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, Second edition

Very Thorough, well-sourced, informative
This is a very thorough account of the years 1917-21 Ukraine, and the attempts of Nestor Makno and his anarchist populist army to liberate their country from first, the czarist, counter-revolutionary ("white") army, and then the traitorous Bolsheviks, who attacked the "Maknovites" from behind, (after having taken control of the Revolution, strangling it to death in the name of "the international proletariat."
A solid piece of scholarship, stands up well against the other historical accounts, (i.e. the official Soviet slander, and others of dubious moral character).
Not as well written as say, Emma Goldman's "My Disillusion in Russia," or Alexander Berkman's "The Bolshevik Myth" (which gives a more-intimate, first-person account); but a stand-out historical marker.
One can only hope that Nestor Makno's extensive auto-biography will soon be published in English.

"He sought to give land to the peasants, factories to the workers intact and advised them to organize themselves"
Nestor Makhno was a man of unparalleled single-mindedness, unflagging courage, tactical brilliance, and utter devotion to the necessity of real human liberty, fraternity and equality.Although described as a Ukrainian partisan, nothing was provincial about Makhno's anarchist vision as Skirda's book demonstrates.The Ukraine was the arena in which he fought for that vision and for the safety and well being of the Ukrainian "toilers."

The Ukrainians were beset by murderers and oppressors of every sort and ideology.After the fall of the Russian empire and the ascendancy of Bolsheviks, the Bolsheviks entered into the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ceding the Ukraine among other territories to the Central Powers effectively ending Russia's involvement in World War 1. The Makhnovists successfully repulsed the new masters of the Ukraine.But others enemies would arise--the White Russian forces, the Red Army--that the Makhnovists would engage almost always successfully.

In the end the Makhnovists made a fatal mistake, one that would be repeated by the anarchists years later during the Spanish civil war.They entered into a military alliance with the Bolsheviks (Marxist Leninists) to fight the Whites, trusting the USSR's promises that they had no territorial aims on the Ukraine.Although successfully winning battles against the Red army, the sheer size of their forces overwhelmed the Makhnovists.Makhno barely escaped and ended his years poor, cheated by "sympathizers" out of funds donated to him and almost completely abandoned as an exile in Paris.

Skirda's book dispels many myths about Makhno, mostly spread by historical revisionists in the Soviet Union.Here we see Makhno the executioner of anti-Semitic murders not one himself; Makhno the worst nightmare of the White Russian forces and not one of their collaborators; Makhno the liberator of the toilers and not their enslaver like the Reds.

Nothing in the text of this book is disappointing.It's thorough, passionately written, admirably detailed, yet lacking in one important respect to make it an important scholarly tool.It has no index. I cannot fathom why.

Nevertheless, I highly recommend reading this book.I suspect it is probably the best portrait of Makhno's life in print.

What your history teacher didn't tell you
For those of us who went or are going to school in the United States, it sometimes seems impossible to get a real picture of the Russian Revolution. So much baggage and enmity clogs the works that most of the time only a two dimensional sketch of one of the pivotal periods of modern history can be achieved, leaving out the breadth and complexity of the many players, parties, ideas, struggles, and factions. Most people graduate from high school and even college with the formless impression that "communism" is "bad."

Luckily, I had a high school history teacher that took the time to say, "These are the basic ideas of Communism: A, B, C, & D. These are the various currents of Communist thought. This is the basic history of the Revolution and the early Soviet state. What matches up? What doesn't? What went on here?"

Skirda's biography of Makhno achieves the same thing. It follows this pivotal figure and his cadre, from well before the Revolution to well after it. It offers actual history of the Revolution--history that was abused and twisted by the Soviet state as "reactionary," and completely ignored in the West, perhaps because it would undermine the flat demonization of the Revolution as "bad." Makhno and his group literally took to the hills to wrench the central Ukraine from the grip of tyrannical barons; fought off invading armies intent on reinstating the old regime; and then turned around to try to keep the Bolshevik invaders from instituting an entirely new regime of tyrannical barons.

While the book is occasionally a bit heavy on blow-by-blow recounting of military movements and tactical nuances, after a while the reader begins to get a sense for Makhno, not only as a military leader and tactician, but also as an amazingly sharp and daring human being. Skirda does an excellent job at contrastinig between the aims and methods of the Bolsheviks, and the aims and methods of the Ukrainian Anarchists. A reader with no background at all in the history of the Revolution will come away from this book with a solid footing upon which to build; and the student of 1915 will come away with a completely new angle and set of knowledge that will deeply inform their understanding of these events.

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Chapters: History of Christianity in Ukraine, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Protestantism in Ukraine, Western Ukrainian Clergy, Roman Catholic Deanery of Sumy, Youth Conference, Priestly Society of Saint Josaphat, Stepan Czmil, Patriarch Filaret, List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Ukraine, Conversion of Chełm Eparchy, Ruthenian Catholic Church, Baptists in Ukraine, List of Metropolitans of Kiev, Ukrainian Bible Society, Roman Catholicism in Ukraine, Basil Kovpak, Ostrog Bible, Metropolitan Vasyl, Roman Catholic Diocese of Lutsk, Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church, Ukrainian Lutheran Church, St Volodymyr's Cathedral Ownership Controversy, Vasiliy Bodnarchuk, Saint Nicholas Monastery, Embassy of God, Kyiv Ukraine Temple, List of Roman Catholic Dioceses in Ukraine, List of Patriarchs of Ukraine, Byzantine Rite Lutheranism. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 181. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: HistoryByzantine EmpireCrusadesEcumenical councilChristianization of BulgariaChristianization of Kievan Rus'East-West SchismBy regionAsian - CoptsEastern Orthodox - Georgian - Ukrainian The History of Christianity in Ukraine dates back to the earliest centuries of the apostolic church. It has remained the dominant religion in the country since its acceptance in 988 by Vladimir the Great (Volodymyr the Great), who instated it as the state religion of Kievan Rus', a medieval East Slavic state. Although separated into various denominations, most Ukrainian Christians share a common faith, a unique blend of Byzantine practices and Slavic mythology. These Eastern Christian traditions, in the form of both Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, have been at various historic times closely aligned with Ukrainian national self-identity. Currently, three major Ukrainian Orthodox Churches coexist, and ...http://booksllc.net/?id=314068 ... Read more

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Chapters: 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the Ss. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen SS (popular named SS-Galizien, later 1st Ukrainian) was a World War II German military formation during made up of volunteers initially from the region of Galicia. Ethnically it was made up mainly of volunteers of Ukrainian ethnic background from Galicia but also incorporated Slovaks, Czechs and Dutch volunteers and officers. Formed in 1943, it was largely destroyed in the battle of Brody, reformed, and saw action in Slovakia, Yugoslavia and Austria before being renamed the first division of the Ukrainian National Army and surrendering to the Western Allies by 10 May 1945. After World War I and the dissolution of AustriaHungary, the territory of Eastern Galicia, populated by a Ukrainian majority but with a large Polish minority, was incorporated into Poland following a PolishUkrainian War. During this conflict the Polish advantage in trained soldiers, particularly officers, played a significant role. Between the wars, the political allegiances of Ukrainians in eastern Galicia were divided between moderate national democrats and the more extreme Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The latter group itself splintered into two factions, the less extreme OUN-M led by Andriy Melnyk with close ties to German intelligence (Abwehr) and the more extreme OUN-B led by Stepan Bandera. When Poland was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union under the terms of the MolotovRibbentrop Pact in 1939, the territory of eastern Galicia was annexed to Soviet Ukraine. In 1941 it was conquered by Germany. Ukrainian leaders of various political persuasions recognised the need for a trained armed force. The German had earlier considered t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3609974 ... Read more

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Chapters: Russians in Ukraine, History of Russians in Latvia, Russian American, Russians in Estonia, Russian Australians, Russians in Kazakhstan, Russians in Korea, Russians in Japan, Russians in Bulgaria, Russians in Finland, Russians in the United Kingdom, Russians in Lithuania, Russians in Belgium, Russians in Mexico, Russians in Germany, Russians in Canada, Russians in China, Russians in Hong Kong, Russians in Armenia, Russians in Georgia, Russians in Brazil. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 131. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 17.3% of the population of Ukraine Russians in Ukraine form the largest ethnic minority in the country, and the community forms the largest single Russian diaspora in the world. In the 2001 Ukrainian census, 8,334,100 identified themselves as ethnic Russians (17.3% of the total population). The ethnic Russian population is significant throughout Ukraine ranging from merely a notable fraction of an overall population in the west, to a significant minority in the center and growing in number even further to the east and south. In the west and the center of the country, the percentage of the Russian population is higher in the cities and industrial centers and much less in the overwhelmingly Ukrainophone rural areas. Due to the traditionally high presence of the Russians in the cities, as well as for the historic reasons, most of the large cities in the center and the south-east of the country (including Kiev where Russians amount to 13.1 % of the population) remain largely Russophone to this day. According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census the percentage of Russian population tends to be higher in the east and south in the country.The traditionally mixed Russo-Ukrainian populated territories are mainly the historic Novorossiya (New Russia) and Slobozhanshchi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11088907 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jewellery as an art form originated as an expression of human culture. Body ornamentation, one purpose of jewellery, has been known since at least the Stone Age. The history of jewellery in Ukraine reflects the influence of many cultures and peoples who have occupied the territory in the past and present. ... Read more

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Ukraine Between East and West presents twelve essays by the distinguished Byzantinist Ihor Sevcenko that explore the development of Ukrainian cultural identity under the disparate influences of the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe (mediated through Poland). For Kyivan Rus', Byzantium was the source of the Christian religion, as well as of a highly developed literary and artistic culture that stimulated Kyiv's own achievements in these fields. The author shows how the prestige of Byzantine civilization was reinforced by the activities of Greek metropolitans of Kyiv, Byzantine emperors, religious missionaries and teachers of Greek, dominating the outlook of the Slavic elite during the Middle Ages. This civilization influenced Kyivan culture not only during Byzantium's period of greatness, but even after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks.

Moving on to the early modern period, Ihor Sevcenko analyzes theimpact of the Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-Reformation inUkraine. The scholarship and new instructional methods of the PolishJesuits and the assimilative pressure of the Polish church and statecompelled the Ukrainian elite not only to rise in defense of itsancestral faith but also to reshape its traditional culture with theaid of Western innovations. The intellectual ferment of the era iscaptured in essays on the defense of the Orthodox faith and thereligious polemical literature. The essay on Metropolitan Peter Mohylaexamines the complex cultural world of this importantchurchman. Concluding the work is a consideration of the way in whichByzantine and Western influences combined with the Kyivan legacy toproduce a distinctive Ukrainian identity. Sevcenko's essays, in whicha wealth of detail is given coherence by an acute, richly informedanalytical perspective, will reward not only students of Byzantineand East European history but all readers interested in problems ofcultural formation and development.

Five essays are published here for the first time, while the other seven have been extensively revised and augmented. Bibliographic notes are appended to each essay, and the volume is enhanced with 21 pages of fifteen chronological tables and four excellent fold-out maps.

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Chapters: History of Christianity in Ukraine, History of Christianity in the United States, History of Church Activities in Zambia, History of Eastern Christianity in Asia, Jewish Christians, Christianization of Scandinavia, History of Christianity in Scotland, Christianity Among the Mongols, Conversion of Pomerania, Germanic Christianity, Christianization of Kievan Rus', Christianization of Lithuania, Christianization of the Rus' Khaganate, Gothic Christianity, Christians in the Persian Gulf, Christianisation of Iceland, History of Arab Christians, German Mysticism, Baptism of Poland, Byzantine Rite Christianity in Canada, Christianization of Hungary. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 227. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: HistoryByzantine EmpireCrusadesEcumenical councilChristianization of BulgariaChristianization of Kievan Rus'East-West SchismBy regionAsian - CoptsEastern Orthodox - Georgian - Ukrainian The History of Christianity in Ukraine dates back to the earliest centuries of the apostolic church. It has remained the dominant religion in the country since its acceptance in 988 by Vladimir the Great (Volodymyr the Great), who instated it as the state religion of Kievan Rus', a medieval East Slavic state. Although separated into various denominations, most Ukrainian Christians share a common faith, a unique blend of Byzantine practices and Slavic mythology. These Eastern Christian traditions, in the form of both Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, have been at various historic times closely aligned with Ukrainian national self-identity. Currently, three major Ukrainian Orthodox Churches coexist, and often compete, in the country: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Or...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=314068 ... Read more

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Title: History of Ukraine Rus', Volume Seven: The Cossack Age to 1625.(Review) (book review)
Author: John-Paul Himka
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2000
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No period in Bohdan Khmelnytsky's hetmancy was as rich in international and dynastic plans as the years 1650 to 1653. After the Zboriv Agreement of 1649, when the hetman resolved to find a way to break forever with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he set out to create the military and political conditions to achieve his goal. From Venice to Moscow the wily hetman spun his diplomatic and military plans. In his search for allies and in pursuit of his goal of establishing a political system that secured the Ukrainian Hetmanate, he looked above all to the Ottomans and their Danubian vassal states. Fusing the interests of his new state to those of his own family, the hetman aspired to found a new dynasty by marrying his son into the ruling house of Moldavia. And as Khmelnytsky was pursing these goals and aspirations, the Cossacks’ military victories and defeats were shaping the fate of a new Ukraine.

The book also covers the dramatic development of Ukrainian-Moldavian relations in the years 1650–53, beginning with the Cossacks’ victorious campaign against Moldavia. The period witnessed the marriage of Tymish Khmelnytsky to Roksanda Lupu, the daughter of the Moldavian hospodar, and it ended with Tymish's tragic death during the siege of Suceava by allied Polish, Wallachian, and Moldavian forces—a major blow not only to Khmelnytsky's policy in the Danube region, but also to his dynastic aspirations. In covering these events, Hrushevsky again proved himself an outstanding researcher with scrupulous attention to detail. His portrait of Tymish, whom Bohdan Khmelnytsky was grooming to become his successor, remains the most complete in the literature. The book concludes on the eve of the Battle of Zhvanets (1653) and the Pereiaslav Council of 1654, events crucial to the future of Ukraine.

It includes an extensive historical introduction, a full bibliography of the sources used by Hrushevsky, 3 maps, and an index. Preparation of the manuscript has been generously sponsored by Mrs. Sofiia Wojtyna of Hamilton, Ontario, in memory of Vasyl Bilash, Mykhailo Charkivsky, and Mykhailo Wojtyna. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Ukraine," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Ukraine in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Ukraine when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Ukraine, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more