The Making of Cossack Ukraine

Political Thought, Culture, and Identity Formation, 1569-1714

Zenon E. Kohut (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

636 Seiten

2025
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-1901-5 (ISBN)

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The Making of Cossack Ukraine traces the evolution of Ukrainian political thought and culture from the sixteenth century to 1714. The book shows how interplay between various political cultures contributed to the development of territorial, religious, ethnic and national visions that reflected early modern concepts of nationhood and state identity.

Both modern Ukrainian nationhood and the historical preconditions of the country’s contemporary conflict with Russia are rooted in a complex period of development in Cossack Ukraine. The Making of Cossack Ukraine traces the evolution of early modern Ukrainian political thought and culture from their sixteenth-century origins to 1714.

Early modern Ukraine was home to a multitude of interrelated political cultures, including those of the Ruthenian nobility, the Kyivan clergy, and the Cossacks. Zenon Kohut shows how constant interplay between these cultures contributed to the development of political, territorial, religious, ethnic, and national collective visions that reflected early modern concepts of nation, state, and identity. Two persistent narratives – the idea of Ukrainian autonomy and perpetual rights, and the idea of a continuous “Russian” tsardom stemming from medieval times – formed the foundation for not only Ukrainian state and nation building but also Russia’s modern identity and sense of nationhood, creating the ideological underpinning for Russian imperialism.

Based in a classical analysis of ethnic, religious, and political ideas developed by early modern Ukrainian intellectuals, The Making of Cossack Ukraine brings to light the origins of present-day Ukrainian political thought.

Zenon E. Kohut is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta.

Note on Transliteration, Translations, Dates, and Terminology vii
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Maps xiv

Introduction 3

1 Ruthenian-Ukrainian Political Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1640s) 17

2 Establishing Goals, Political Concepts, and Values: The Khmel'nyts'kyi Uprising and the Hetmanate (1648–68) 41

3 Uniting the Fatherland: Hetman Petro Doroshenko (1665–75) 74

4 The Left-Bank Hetmanate: Hetman Ivan Samoilovych (1672–87) 102

5 The Construction of Historical-Political Narratives (1660–80s) 146

6 In Service to Tsar and Ukraine: Hetman Ivan Mazepa 212

7 Mazepa: Modernizer and Enlightened Ruler (1687–1708) 250

8 Mazepa: Hetman of a Sacred Rutheno-Rossian Realm 286

9 From Tsarist Service to Swedish Protection (1705–09) 332

10 From Reprisals to Ideological Combat: Peter vs Mazepa 360

11 Liberating Ukraine: Hetman Pylyp Orlyk (1709–14) 391

12 Rethinking Ukraine: Envisioning a Free Cossack Commonwealth 428

Conclusions 455
Epilogue 467
Notes 479
Bibliography 553
Index 59

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	2 figures, 5 maps
Verlagsort	Montreal
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-2280-1901-X / 022801901X
ISBN-13	978-0-2280-1901-5 / 9780228019015
Zustand	Neuware