Humanities & Social Sciences

How the Cossacks Defended Ukraine

by Yuriy Mytsyk, Serhii Plokhy

Description

The book contains a fascinating story written in the genre of popular science about the emergence of the Ukrainian Cossacks, their prosperity and decline. The customs of the Cossacks, their military art, religious life, daily life, organization and functions of the Zaporizhzhya Sich Army, the struggle against external enemies, and the contribution of the Cossacks to the culture of the Ukraine are analysed. The impact of Cossack traditions on the mentality and social and political life of modern Ukrainians is also highlighted.

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Foreign rights sold: English. Contact: clio.book@gmail.com


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Author Biography

Yuriy Mytsyk is a historian, specialist in sources of historical information, archeographer, researcher of the history of Ukraine of the Cossack era and the history of the church. Mytsyk is a Doctor of Historical Sciences (PhD), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Honorary Member of the All-Ukrainian Union of Historians. He is the author of more than 30 books, collective monographs, and compiler of the collections of historical documents. Serhii Plokhy – a professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute of HU. He`s a Winner of Shevchenko National Prise (Ukraine, 2018), 2015 Lionel Gelber Prise for the world's best non-fiction book in English on global issues (for The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union) and 2018 Baillie Gifford Prise (for Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy). Serhii Plokhy is an author of more than 20 books in English, Ukrainian and Russian. His books have been translated into Chinese, Belarusian, Polish, Estonian, Spanish, Romanian and Portuguese.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Clio
  • Publication Date 2018
  • Orginal LanguageUkrainian
  • ISBN/Identifier 9786177023639
  • Publication Country or regionUkraine
  • Pages368
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleЯк козаки Україну боронили
  • Original Language AuthorsМицик Юрій, Плохій Сергій

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