History of Ukraine-Rus, Vol. 8: The Cossack Age, 1626-1650

The Polish Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 2 (2004)
"The publication of this volume... is both a historiographical and cultural landmark" Paul W. Knoll, University of Southern California

The Russian Review, Vol. 63, No. 4 (2004)
"... should become required reading for courses on central and eastern Europe..." Brian J. Boeck, Loyola Marymount University

Book Description
The History of Ukraine-Rus', volume 8: The Cossack Age, 1626–1650 deals with the period when the Cossacks' emergence as a political power and the Khmelnytsky Uprising made Ukraine a focal point in European and Near Eastern affairs. Based on an exhaustive examination of the sources and scholarly literature, Hrushevsky's volume 8 stands as the most comprehensive account of this dramatic period in Ukrainian history. Ukraine's central role in the international politics of the time makes the volume important to specialists and students of East European, Central European, Ottoman, Russian, and Jewish history, as well as to those studying revolution and state building in early modern Europe. For her work in translating volume 8 Marta Daria Olynyk was awarded the 2004 AAUS Translation Prize.

From the Publisher
The History of Ukraine-Rus' is the most comprehensive account of the ancient, medieval, and early modern history of the Ukrainian people. Written by Ukraine's greatest historian, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, the ten-volume History remains unsurpassed in its use of sources and literature. The English-language edition makes the national history of Europe's largest new state available to the English reader for the first time. At the launch of Volume 1, the late Professor Thomas Noonan of the University of Minnesota referred to the Hrushevsky Translation Project as "one of North America's most important and ambitious publishing projects in East Slavic history." The English-language volumes include extensive introductions by prominent scholars, complete bibliographies of Hrushevsky's sources, and updates of subsequent literature. Volumes 1, 7, and 8 were published in 1997, 1999, and 2002 respectively, and have gained international scholarly recognition. About the Hrushevsky Translation Project The Hrushevsky Translation Project produces the English edition of the History of Ukraine-Rus'. The Project is based at the Jacyk Centre's offices at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto. In addition to the Centre's resources, the Project is financed by grants, sponsorships of individual volumes, and contributions from the Ukrainian community. In addition to the Hrushevsky Translation Project, the Centre sponsors a monograph series and a series of translations into Ukrainian of major Western historical works on Ukraine. It funds archival research and publications and provides grants and fellowships to scholars of Ukrainian history.

About the Author
About the Author Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934) was Ukraine's greatest historian. His academic career began at Kyiv University, where in 1890 he graduated from the Department of History and Philology. Appointed professor of history at Lviv University in 1894, he became a leading figure in the Shevchenko Scientific Society and in the scholarly and cultural community centered in Lviv. In 1918, he was head of the government of the independent Ukrainian republic. From 1924 to 1931, in Kyiv, he organized historical studies at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. An extraordinarily prolific writer, he produced some 2,000 scholarly works. His magnum opus, the Istoriia Ukraïny-Rusy (History of Ukraine-Rus'), appeared between 1898 and 1937. These ten published volumes (in eleven books) trace Ukrainian history from the earliest times to the post-Khmelnytsky era in the late 1650s. The History was internationally acclaimed at the time of its publication, but in Soviet Ukraine after the 1930s no scholarly! references to it were permitted to appear. Attempts in the 1960s to "rehabilitate" Hrushevsky and his works failed, and it was only in the late 1980s that the Ukrainian public began to regain access to the History. About the Translator Marta Daria Olynyk, a Montreal-based translator and editor, carefully and conscientiously rendered Hrushevsky's complicated Ukrainian prose into fluent English. She consulted with noted historian Marko Antonovych in translating Hrushevsky's Polish and Latin passages. Marta Daria Olynyk, who worked for 17 years as a shortwave radio broadcaster (in Ukrainian), is the translator for two more forthcoming forthcoming volumes of Hrushevsky's History of Ukraine-Rus'.


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