Humanities & Social Sciences

Cossack State as an Idea in the System of Socio-political Thinking of the XVI-XVIII Centuries. In two books

by Valeriy Shevchuk

Description

The publication describes the entire era of Ukrainian statehood, namely, the foundation principles, formation and the fall of the Cossack state. The author describes in detail the foundation milestones, the complexities and challenges of the state-building process, attempts to preserve the Ukrainian statehood, the struggle of the last hetmans (presidents) Pylyp Orlyk, Ivan Skoropadskyi, and Pavlo Polubotko to protect of the Cossack state from ruin. The author builds his reflections on the analysis of Cossack laws, hetman documents and literary sources - exquisite examples of poetry and art of writing. The work is supplemented with rare illustrative materials.

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Author Biography

Valeriy Shevchuk is a Ukrainian writer, historian and archivist, a winner of the Shevchenko National Prise, the Antonovych Foundation Award and the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, Honored Worker of Polish Culture. He is an author of more than 30 novels and collections of short stories (7 books was translated into English) and more than ten monographs and translations of works of ancient Ukrainian literature.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Clio
  • Publication Date 2021
  • Orginal LanguageUkrainian
  • ISBN/Identifier 9786177023981
  • Publication Country or regionUkraine
  • Pages792
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleКозацька держава як ідея в системі суспільно-політичного мислення XVI–XVIII століть. У двох книгах.
  • Original Language AuthorsШевчук Валерій

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