A history of Ukraine. A short course. (English Edition)

This book sets out Ukraine’s history from antiquity to the present day, offering a condensed overview of the turbulent history of this European country. This book will help answer the following questions: What is Ukraine — a country which has recently been much talked about in the world? How has Europe become precisely as we see it now?

CONTENTS:

Prehistory
Homo sapiens
Ice Age
The Neolithic Revolution
The Trypilian Culture
Indo-European Homeland
The Cimmerians
The Scythians
Victories of Greater Scythia
Ancient Greek Cities
The Sarmatians
The Goths
The Slavs
The Hunnic Empire
The Founding of Kyiv
The Origin of the Ukrainian People
Princes of Varangian Origin
The Conquest of the Crimea and Zalesye
Volodymyr the Great
Yaroslav the Wise
Victories over the Nomads
Feudal Fragmentation
Volodymyr Monomakh
Mstyslav the Great
Rus’
The Origin of Russia
The Language of Kyivan Rus’
Ukraine
Fighting the Mongols
The Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samogitia
The Kyiv and Volhynia Principalities the 1430s to the 1470s
The Decline of Lithuania
The Ukrainian Cossacks
The Zaporozhian Sich
Campaigns against Moldova, Turkey and the Crimea
Campaigns against Muscovy
Anti-Polish Uprisings
The Liberation War of 1648–1657
The Pereiaslav Treaty
The Treaty of Hadiach
The Partition of Ukraine
Petro Doroshenko
Ivan Sirko
The Restoration of Right-Bank Ukraine
Ivan Mazepa and the “Mazepists”
The Curtailment of Ukraine’s Rights
The Haidamakas
The Introduction of Serfdom
The Danubian Sich
The Karmaliuk Rebellion
The Opryshoks and Oleksa Dovbush
The National Revival in Galicia
Sloboda Ukraine
The Donbas
South
The Awakening of Greater Ukraine
The Destruction of Ukrainian Identity
Taras Shevchenko
The Abolition of Serfdom
The First World War
The War with Bolshevik Russia
The Western Ukrainian National Republic
The Course of War
Ukrainian Insurgents
Symon Petliura
The Soviet Regime
The Holodomor of 1932-33
The Soviet-Nazi Alliance
The Soviet-German War
The Ukrainian Contribution to the Victory
The OUN and UPA
Post-war USSR
The Independence of Ukraine
Post-communist Problems
The Revolution of Dignity
The Occupation of the Crimea by Russia
Aggression in the Donbas