CONTENTS
Contents................................................................................................................................................... 3
Editor’s Notes.........................................................................................................................................
5Foreword.................................................................................................................................................. 7
BACKGROUND: UKRAINE AS A PART OF POLAND 1569 - 1648
Introductory Notes........................................................................................................................ 9
Socio-Political System of Poland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries....................................................................................................................................... 11
The Ukrainian Cossacks in the Sixteenth and First Half of the
Seventeenth Century................................................................................................................... 14
THE EMANCIPATION OF UKRAINE: THE HETMAN STATE, 1648 - 1781
Chapter 1 Introductory Notes.................................................................................................... 21
Chapter 2 Legal Status of the Ukrainian State........................................................................ 23
Chapter 3 The Russian State of the Seventeenth Century................................................ 28
Chapter 4 Relations Between the Ukrainian State and the Russian Government
in the Seventeenth Century........................................................................................................ 33
Chapter 5 Territory of Hetman Ukraine............................................................................................
35Chapter 6 The Population of Hetman Ukraine
Section A Ethnic Structure of the Population...................................................... 38
Section B Division of the Population into Social Estates.
The Nobility............................................................................................. 41
Section C The Noble Army Fellows...................................................................... 45
Section D The Cossacks.......................................................................................... 53
Section E Clergy. The Townspeople...................................................................... 58
Section F The Peasantry.......................................................................................... 62
Chapter 7 The Governmental Institutions
Section A General Features.................................................................................... 66
Section B The Hetmanate........................................................................................ 68
Section C The Cossack General Assembly.......................................................... 74
Section D The Cossack Officers’ Council............................................................ 81
Section E The Cossack Chief Officers.................................................................. 90
Section F The Organs of Local Government........................................................ 98
Section G The Organs of Government in the Eighteenth Century. 105
Chapter 8 The Belorussian Cossack Regiment, 1655 - 1659....................................................... HO
Chapter 9 The Zaporozhian Host......................................................................... ; ∙ ∙ D3
Chapter 10 The Ukrainian Cossack Organizations in the Slobodian Ukraine
and Elsewhere............................................................................................................................ 125
Selected Bibliography
A. Author’s Publication........................................................................................................ 141
B. Publications of Other Authors................................................................. 142