The Battle of Konotop 1659
Exploring alternatives in East European history
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The Battle of Konotop 1659
Exploring alternatives in East European history
About this book
The battle that took place near Konotop in late June 1659 was a continuation of the Muscovite-Cossack war, which began in the fall of 1658, soon after the signing of the Union of Hadiach. Cossack and Tatar detachments trapped a significant portion of the Muscovite army, leading to enormous Russian losses. The unprecedented defeat of the previously invincible forces caused panic in Russia, but the Muscovites' capacity to turn defeat into political victory, and the fratricidal struggle in Ukraine, known as the "Ruin", left most of the Cossack lands on the Right Bank of the Dnieper uninhabitable. Konotop is a classic example of a battle won, but a war lost. ariusz Robert Drozdowski, Ksenia Konstantynenko, Piotr Kroll, Serhii Plokhy, Oleg Rumyantsev, Natalia Yakovenko and Tatjana Yakovleva-Tairova, the authors of this collection, hail from Poland, Italy, USA, Ukraine and Russia. They consider the military, political, social, and cultural context of the battle and also investigate its treatement in historical and literary writings from the early modern era to the present. They approach their topic from the point of view of various disciplines, traditions, and schools of thought. Their essays expand our understanding of the battle, its outcome and legacy in unexpected and historiographically productive ways.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Bibliographic informations
- First pages
- Table of contents
- Konotop 1659: exploring alternatives in East European history
- «In libertate nati sumus»: the life strategies of Ukrainian szlachta and orthodox hierarchs on the eve and in the first decade of the Cossack wars (1638-1658)
- The battle of Konotop as recorded in Cossack chronicles
- The military cooperation between the Commonwealth, Zaporizhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars in the period of the Hadjach Union and the battle of Konotop
- The Commonwealthâs position towards resumption of the Hadjach Union in 1660-1682
- Ukraine and Cossacks in 17th century Italian perceptions
- The Konotop battle: 350 years later