History of Ukraine-Rus': Volume 3. to the Year 1340 by Hrushevsky, Mykhailo

History of Ukraine-Rus': Volume 3. to the Year 1340 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781894865456)

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History of Ukraine-Rus': Volume 3. to the Year 1340 by Hrushevsky, Mykhailo

History of Ukraine-Rus': Volume 3. to the Year 1340

$119.95
History of Ukraine-Rus': Volume 3. to the Year 1340 by Hrushevsky, Mykhailo

History of Ukraine-Rus': Volume 3. to the Year 1340

$119.95
Format: Hardcover
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Volume 3 concludes the first cycle of the History of Ukraine-Rus', which Mykhailo Hrushevsky characterized as the story of the Ukrainian people's historical existence from its beginnings to the collapse of statehood in the fourteenth century. Here Hrushevsky deals with one of that history's least known but most intriguing periods--the time of the preeminence of the Galician-Volhynian state and the spread of Tatar (Mongol) rule over the Ukrainian lands. The volume also offers a comprehensive discussion of all aspects of political, social, and cultural life in the Old Rus' period. In discussing the Galician-Volhynian state, Hrushevsky describes its first prince, Roman Mstyslavych, as an effective and forward-looking leader. His son Danylo Romanovych protected his state against the Tatars while seeking support from the West. That policy continued under Danylo's successors, but with the extinction of the Riurykid dynasty the Galician-Volhynian lands were absorbed by Poland and Lithuania. During this same time the lands of the Dnipro region were experiencing the decline of the princely and military retinue system and increasing subordination to Tatar rule. In examining life in Old Rus', Hrushevsky discusses the rights and relations of princes, the functions of princely servitors and administrative officials, the legal code and judicial system, military organization, church organization, and the composition and structure of society. He goes on to describe economic relations, family and social relations, religious life, education, and artistic creativity. He also examines Old Rus' writings, particularly the Kyiv and Galician-Volhynian Chronicles. Throughout, the master historian demonstrates the erudition and command of source materials for which he is renowned.

Author: Mykhailo Hrushevsky
ISBN-10: 1894865456
ISBN-13: 9781894865456
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2022
Pages: 748
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.70lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.20w x 2.30d
By Mykhailo Hrushevsky
By Mykhailo Hrushevsky
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Appointed professor of history at Lviv University in 1894, Mykhailo Hrushevsky became a leading figure in the scholarly and cultural community of Western Ukraine. In 1918 in Kyiv, he became head of the government of the independent Ukrainian state. From 1924 to 1931, he organized historical studies at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. An extraordinarily prolific writer, he produced some 2,000 scholarly works. Yaroslav Fedoruk is a senior scholar at the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv. A specialist in seventeenth-century international relations, he has published many studies of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's foreign policy, including The Treaty of Vilnius (1656): The East European Crisis and Ukraine in the Mid-Seventeenth Century (2011; in Ukrainian). He is also editor of Ukra?s'kyi arkheohrafichnyi shchorichnyk (Ukrainian Archaeographic Annual, Kyiv).

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