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From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia – as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it – officially held that the Russian nation consisted of three branches: Great Russian, Little Russian (Ukrainian), and White Russian (Belarusian). After the 1917 revolution, this view was discredited by many leading scholars, politicians, and cultural figures, but none were more intimately involved in the dismantling of the old imperial identity and its historical narrative than the eminent Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934).
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Unmaking Imperial Russia Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History
SerhiiPlokhv
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London
e University of TorontoPressIncorporated2005 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN0-8020-3937-5
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Library and Archives CanadaCataloguingin Publication Plokhy, Serhii, 1957Unmaking imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the writing of Ukrainian history / Serhii Plokhy. ISBN0-8020-3937-5 -1,866-1934. 1. Hrushevskyi, Mykhailo, 2. Ukraine - History, Revolution, 1917-1921- Registersof dead. 3. Historians - Ukraine Biography. 4. Statesmen- Ukraine - Biography. I. Title. DK508.47.H78P562005
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This book has been published with the help of a subvention from the Ukrainian Studies Fund Inc., New York. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financiai assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciencesand Humanities Research Council of Canada. University