Grappling with the Hero: Hrushevs'kyi Confronts Khmel'nyts'kyi

Sysyn comments on how Mykhailo Hrushevskyi views Bohdan Khmelnytskyi. He says that Hrushevskyi's final characterization of Khmelnytskyi had little impact in undermining the hetman's position as the archetypical Ukranian hero. He failed to vanquish the statist school, which remained dominan...

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Published in:Harvard Ukrainian studies 1998-01, Vol.22, p.589-609
Main Author: SYSYN, FRANK E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anniversaries
Historians
History
Hrushevsky, Mykhailo (1866-1934)
Khmelnytskyi, Bohdan
Marxist history
Nationalism
Political revolutions
Politicians
Politics
Popular uprisings
Slavic culture
Terminology
Writing
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Summary:Sysyn comments on how Mykhailo Hrushevskyi views Bohdan Khmelnytskyi. He says that Hrushevskyi's final characterization of Khmelnytskyi had little impact in undermining the hetman's position as the archetypical Ukranian hero. He failed to vanquish the statist school, which remained dominant among Ukranian historians in western Ukraine and abroad.
ISSN:0363-5570
2328-5400