History of Ukraine-Rus': Volume 8. the Cossack Age, 1626-1650 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781895571325)

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. Frank E. Sysyn is Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project. He is a co-editor of Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter, 1600-1945 (2003), the author of Between Poland and Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653 (1985), and Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001). Myroslav Yurkevich was senior editor at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and on the Hrushevsky Translation Project. He was managing editor of several volumes of the English edition of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's History of Ukraine-Rus'.