Ukrainophile Activism and Imperial Governance in Russia's Southwestern Borderlands
@article{Hillis2012UkrainophileAA, title={Ukrainophile Activism and Imperial Governance in Russia's Southwestern Borderlands}, author={Faith Hillis}, journal={Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History}, year={2012}, volume={13}, pages={301 - 326} }
Throughout the 19th century, a "Ukrainian question" haunted the Russian Empire. In the early 1800s, ethnic Ukrainian (or as official circles then called them, Little Russian) nobles came to see themselves as leaders of a historical nation whose origins they traced to Kievan Rus' and the Cossack hetmanate. (1) By mid-century, Little Russian elites infused this historical sensibility with political content, initiating a Ukrainian "national awakening." In the 1840s, the Cyrillo-Methodian Society…
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