
- 328 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In a fascinating "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in late Imperial Russia, and is now the capital of independent Ukraine. After a concise account of Kiev's early history, Hamm focuses on the city's dramatic growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first historian to analyze how each of Kiev's ethnic groups contributed to the vitality of the city's culture, he also examines the violent conflicts that developed among them. In vivid detail, he shows why Kiev came to be known for its "abundance of revolutionaries" and its anti-Semitic violence.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Preface
- Chapter I: The Early History of Kiev
- Chapter II: The Growth of Metropolitan Kiev
- Chapter III: Polish Kiev
- Chapter IV: Ukrainians in Russian Kiev
- Chapter V: Jewish Kiev
- Chapter VI: Recreation, the Arts, and Popular Culture in Kiev
- Chapter VII: The Promise of Change: Kiev in 1905
- Chapter VIII: The Promise Shattered: The October Pogrom
- Chapter IX: The Final Years of Romanov Kiev
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index