The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine

The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine
Title The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine PDF eBook
Author Serhii Plokhy
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 414
Release 2001-11-08
Genre History
ISBN 019155443X

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The Ukrainian Cossacks, often compared in historical literature to the pirates of the Mediterranean and the frontiersmen of the American West, constituted one of the largest Cossack hosts in the European steppe borderland. They became famous as ferocious warriors, their fighting skills developed in their religious wars against the Tartars, Turks, Poles, and Russians. By and large the Cossacks were Orthodox Christians, and quite early in their history they adopted a religious ideology in their struggle against those of other faiths. Their acceptance of the Muscovite protectorate in 1654 was also influenced by their religious ideas. In this pioneering study, Serhii Plokhy examines the confessionalization of religious life in the early modern period, and shows how Cossack involvment in the religious struggle between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicisim helped shape not only Ukrainian but also Russian and Polish cultural identities.

History of the Cossacks

History of the Cossacks
Title History of the Cossacks PDF eBook
Author V. G. Glazkov
Publisher Robert Speller & Sons
Pages 163
Release 1972-01-01
Genre Cossacks
ISBN 9780831500351

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The Cossack Myth

The Cossack Myth
Title The Cossack Myth PDF eBook
Author Serhii Plokhy
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 403
Release 2012-07-26
Genre History
ISBN 1139536737

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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.

Tsars and Cossacks

Tsars and Cossacks
Title Tsars and Cossacks PDF eBook
Author Serhii Plokhy
Publisher Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Pages 136
Release 2002
Genre Cossacks
ISBN

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Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. In this groundbreaking study, Serhii Plokhy examines the political and religious culture of Ukrainian Cossackdom, as reflected in the Cossack-era paintings, icons, and woodcuts.

The Cossacks

The Cossacks
Title The Cossacks PDF eBook
Author Philip Longworth
Publisher New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pages 440
Release 1970
Genre History
ISBN

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A panoramic view of Cossack history from the 15th to the 20th centuries begins with an exploration of the Cossacks' complex origins, describes their role as border guards and their frontier way of life, chronicles struggles with Turks and Tatars, and traces their loss of collective identity.

The Cossacks

The Cossacks
Title The Cossacks PDF eBook
Author Leo Tolstoy
Publisher Cosimo, Inc.
Pages 112
Release 2006-11-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1602060150

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This 1862 novel, in a vibrant new translation by Peter Constantine, is Tolstoy' s semiautobiographical story of young Olenin, a wealthy, disaffected Muscovite who joins the Russian army and travels to the untamed frontier of the Caucasus in search of a more authentic life. While striving to adopt the rough and ready lifestyle of the local Cossacks, Olenin falls in love with a free-spirited girl whose fiancé turns out to be a formidable opponent. Showcasing the philosophical insight that would characterize Tolstoy' s later masterpieces, this long overdue translation is a revelation.

The Cowboy and the Cossack

The Cowboy and the Cossack
Title The Cowboy and the Cossack PDF eBook
Author Clair Huffaker
Publisher
Pages 360
Release 1973
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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In the spring of 1880, a group of American cowboys joined by a band of cossacks trek across the siberian wilderness to deliver cattle to a starving town.