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Early Ukraine : a military and social history to the mid-19th century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Basilevsky, Alexander
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016.
Subjects:
Ukraine > History > To 1648.
Ukraine > History > 1648-1775.
Ukraine > History, Military.
Kievan Rus > History.
Cossacks > Ukraine > History.
Ukraine > Relations.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Cossacks.
International relations.
Europe > Kievan Rus.
Ukraine.
To 1775
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: History and politics
  • The early history
  • The Roman Empire
  • The Slavs and the Roman Empire
  • Rus, the early beginnings
  • The rise of the Kyiv state
  • Civilization comes to Rus
  • The Papal Crusades
  • Internal conflict and foreign invasion
  • The coming of the Mongols
  • The rise of the Cossacks
  • The Zaporozhian Brotherhood and the first Cossack wars
  • Rising up against oppression
  • The Ukrainian Revolution
  • The revolution continues
  • Alliance with the Tsar and the death of Khmelnitsky
  • The Cossacks defeated
  • The end of Cossack freedom
  • Epilogue: The birth of the Ukrainian state.