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Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire by Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva (2020, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-100228001749
ISBN-139780228001744
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038260655
Product Key Features
Number of Pages440 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameIvan Mazepa and the Russian Empire
Publication Year2020
SubjectRussia & the Former Soviet Union
TypeTextbook
AuthorTatiana Tairova-Yakovleva
Subject AreaHistory
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight23.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Reviews"This outstanding book by Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva, a revised and updated translation of the author's 2007 book ... deserves a large audience. Both the Russian and English edition of this unstintingly scholarly work end on a reflective and philosophical note, worth quoting in light of Russia's current war against Ukraine. 'One would like to believe that the time has come ... to learn from the tragedies and mistakes of our ancestors, and to listen to and understand one another.' Alas, it appears, not yet." European History Quarterly, "In this remarkable archival-based study of the political, social, and cultural dynamics of Hetman Ivan Mazepa's rule in Ukraine (1687-1709), Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva strips away the stereotypical tropes of Mazepa as a traitor to Russia or national hero of Ukraine ... . By dismantling the cliches and myths that have obscured the realities of this complex history, this book is a valuable addition to both Russian and Ukrainian history. For anyone interested in this or any period of Russian/Ukrainian relations, it should be essential reading." Slavic Review, "Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva brings the early modern hetman alive, removing numerous layers of mythology, good and bad, and placing him in the context of his uneasy relationship and conflict with the Russian Empire and its tsar, turned emperor, Peter I. Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire is a pleasure to read and highly recommended." Serhii Plokhy, Harvard University and author of The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, "Guba's study is a landmark publication as it tackles for the first time the history of cannabis in France. It is all the more convincing for being thoroughly-researched, and is as readable as it is significant. He carefully demonstrates that the first French encounters with cannabis products during the period when the nation was seeking to build a North African empire ensured that ideas about those substances were little more than Orientalist myths created by colonial fantasists. His conclusion, that these myths still shape racist ideas about cannabis products and their consumers in policy and police circles to this day, is compelling and controversial." James H. Mills, University of Strathclyde, Glascow, and the author of Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Brtain, 1928-2008
SynopsisA political biography of the famous Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa and his clash with the emerging Russian empire., Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709), hetman of the Zaporozhian Host in what is now Ukraine, is a controversial figure, famous for abandoning his allegiance to Tsar Peter I and joining Charles XII's Swedish army during the Battle of Poltava. Although he is discussed in almost every survey and major book on Russian and Ukrainian history, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire is the first English-language biography of the hetman in sixty years. A translation and revision of Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva's 2007 Russian-language book, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire presents an updated perspective. This account is based on many new sources, including Mazepa's archive - thought lost for centuries before it was rediscovered by the author in 2004 - and post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian historiography. Focusing on this fresh material, Tairova-Yakovleva delivers a more nuanced and balanced account of the polarizing figure who has been simultaneously demonized in Russia as a traitor and revered in Ukraine as the defender of independence. Chapters on economic reform, Mazepa's impact on the rise to power of Peter I, his cultural achievements, and the reasons he switched his allegiance from Peter to Charles integrate a larger array of issues and personalities than have previously been explored. Setting a standard for the next generation of historians, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire reveals an original picture of the Hetmanate during a moment of critical importance for the Russian Empire and Ukraine.
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