In a fascinating "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story
of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of
Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid
urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in
late Imperial Russia, and is now the capital of independent
Ukraine. After a concise account of Kiev's early history, Hamm
focuses on the city's dramatic growth in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. The first historian to analyze how each of
Kiev's ethnic groups contributed to the vitality of the city's
culture, he also examines the violent conflicts that developed
among them. In vivid detail, he shows why Kiev came to be known for
its "abundance of revolutionaries" and its anti-Semitic
violence.
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