Children of Rus' : : Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation / / Faith Hillis.

In Children of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2017
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.) :; 16 halftones, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note to the Reader
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The Little Russian Idea and the Russian Empire
  • 1. The Little Russian Idea and the Invention of a Rus′ Nation
  • 2. The Little Russian Idea in the 1860s
  • 3. The Little Russian Idea and the Imagination of Russian and Ukrainian Nations
  • Part Two: The Urban Crucible
  • 4. Nationalizing Urban Politics
  • 5 Concepts of Liberation
  • Part Three: Forging a Russian Nation
  • 6. Electoral Politics and Regional Governance
  • 7. Nationalizing the Empire
  • 8. The Limits of the Russian Nationalist Vision
  • Epilogue
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index