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The Cossack Myth - History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires (Paperback)
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The Cossack Myth - History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires (Paperback)
Series: New Studies in European History
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In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript
began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the
Russian Empire. Entitled The History of the Rus', it became one of
the most influential historical texts of the modern era. Attributed
to an eighteenth-century Orthodox archbishop, it described the
heroic struggles of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Alexander Pushkin read
the book as a manifestation of Russian national spirit, but Taras
Shevchenko interpreted it as a quest for Ukrainian national
liberation, and it would inspire thousands of Ukrainians to fight
for the freedom of their homeland. Serhii Plokhy tells the
fascinating story of the text's discovery and dissemination,
unravelling the mystery of its authorship and tracing its
subsequent impact on Russian and Ukrainian historical and literary
imagination. In so doing he brilliantly illuminates the
relationship between history, myth, empire and nationhood from
Napoleonic times to the fall of the Soviet Union.
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