Contents
Preface................................................................................................. 3
Module 1. The History of Ukraine in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period...................................................................................................
5Theme 1. The Emergence and Development of the Southern Slavonic Tribes and Establishment of Kyivan Rus between the 2nd and the 11th Centuries.............................................................................................. 5
Theme 2. Appanage Principalities in Ukraine-Rus between the 11th and the 13th Centuries. The Establishment of Galicia-Volyn State. Roman Mstyslavych........................................................................................ 17
Theme 3. Galicia-Volyn State between the 13th and the First Half of the 14th Centuries...................................................................................... 25
Theme 4. The Ukrainian Lands under the Rule of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland (the Second Half of the 14th - the First Half of the 16th Centuries............................................................. 32
Theme 5. The Ukrainian Lands under the Rule of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (the Second Half of the 16th - the First Half of the 17th Centuries)........................................................................................... 41
Theme 6. The Cossack Revolution (1648 - 1657): the Foundation
of Hetmanshchyna.............................................................................. 49
Theme 7. The Ruin of Hetmanshchyna between 1659 and 1687 and the Hetmanate of Ivan Mazepa (1687 - 1709)............................. 54
Theme 8. The Liquidation of the Ukrainian Autonomies of Hetmanshchyna, Zaporozhian Host, and Sloboda Regiments by the Government of the Russian Empire in the 18th Century...................... 60
Module 2.
Ukraine in the Modern and Recent Periods (the 19th - the Early 21st Centuries)............................................................................ 66Theme 9. The Ukrainian Lands in the First Half of the 19th Century.... 66
Theme 10. The National Revival and Economic Modernization of the Ukrainian Lands under the Austrian (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy of Habsburgs and the Russian Empire from the Middle 19th to the Early 20st Centuries...................................................................................... 72
Theme 11. The Ukrainian Lands in the First World War between 1914 and 1918. The Ukrainian National Revolution between 1917 and 1921.................................................................................................... 88
Theme 12. The Ukrainian National Revolution between 1917 and 1921.................................................................................................... 94
Theme 13. The Ukrainian Lands between the 1920s and 1930s.................................................................................................. 99
Theme 14. Ukraine in the Second World War (1939 - 1945)................................................................................................ 114
Theme 15. The Social and Political Development of Ukraine between 1945 and 1991.................................................................................. 121
Theme 16. Independent Ukraine between 1991 and the 2000s....... 137
Glossary of Terms............................................................................. 142
References....................................................................................... 145
Appendices............................................................................... 149