Children of Rus' : Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (349 pages)
Intro -- 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.
Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands.
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Nationalism -- Ukraine -- History -- 19th century. Nationalism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century. Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 19th century. Russia -- Politics and government -- 1801-1917. Ukraine -- Relations -- Russia. Russia -- Relations -- Ukraine.