Contents

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF MAPS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER

1. Ukraine’s Physical Geography

2. Ukraine’s Political and Human Geography

3. Greeks and Scythians

4. Khazars

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6. Trade Routes in Eastern Europe in the Eighth to Tenth Centuries

7. Kievan Rus’: Its Formation and Consolidation

8. Kievan Rus’: Its Disintegration

9. The Mongol Invasions

10. The Golden Horde and Italian Merchants

11. Galicia-Volhynia and the End of Kievan Rus’

12. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus’, and Samogitia to 1569

13. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after 1569

14. Socioeconomic Relations in Ukrainian Lands, 1569-1648

15. Religion and Culture in Ukrainian Lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

16. Tatars and Cossacks

17. Zaporozhia

18. The Khmel’nyts’kyi Uprising of 1648

19. The Cossack State

20. Ukrainian Lands during the Period of Ruin, 1657-1686

21. Mazepa and the Cossack Hetmanate

22. Sloboda Ukraine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

23. Zaporozhia and Southern Ukrainian Lands in the Eighteenth Century

24. The Right Bank and Western Ukraine in the Eighteenth Century

25. The Partitions of Poland, 1772-1795

26. Ukrainian Lands in the Russian Empire in the Nineteenth Century

27. Socioeconomic Developments in Dnieper Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century

28. The Peoples of Dnieper Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century

29. Ukrainian Lands under Habsburg Rule, 1772-1914

30. The Peoples in Ukrainian Lands under Habsburg Rule, 1772-1914

31. Western Ukraine during World War I

32. Revolution in Dnieper Ukraine, 1917-1918

33. War, Social Upheaval, and Anarchy in Dnieper Ukraine, 1919-1920

34. Western Ukrainian Lands, 1918-1919

35. Ukrainian Lands after World War I

36. Soviet Ukraine in the Interwar Years

37. Soviet Ukraine’s Other Peoples

38. Soviet Ukraine: Economic Transformation and the Great Famine

39. Ukrainian Lands in Interwar Poland

40. Ukrainian Lands in Interwar Romania and Czechoslovakia

41. Carpatho-Ukraine, 1938-1939

42. World War II and Western Ukrainian Lands, 1939-1941

43. Ukrainian Lands during World War II, 1941-1944

44. World War II: The Military Struggle for Ukrainian Lands

45. Soviet Ukraine after World War II

46. From Soviet Ukraine to Independent Ukraine

INDEX

ILLUSTRATION SOURCES AND CREDITS