In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was
the legendary Cossack general who organized a rebellion that
liberated the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule. Consequently, he
has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given nation builder,
cut in the model of George Washington. But in this campaign, the
massacre of thousands of Jews perceived as Polish intermediaries
was the collateral damage, and in order to secure the tentative
independence, Khmelnytsky signed a treaty with Moscow, ultimately
ceding the territory to the Russian tsar. So, was he a liberator or
a villain? This volume examines drastically different narratives,
from Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian, and Polish literature, that have
sought to animate, deify, and vilify the seventeenth-century
Cossack. Khmelnytsky's legacy, either as nation builder or as
antagonist, has inhibited inter-ethnic and political rapprochement
at key moments throughout history and, as we see in recent
conflicts, continues to affect Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, and
Russian national identity.
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