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The Origins of the Slavic Nations

The latest developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including

the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the

victory of the democratic “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine, pose impor-

tant questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations and the essen-

tial similarities or differences between their cultures. This book traces

the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian nations by

focusing on premodern forms of group identity among the Eastern Slavs.

It also challenges attempts to “nationalize” the Rus past on behalf of

existing national projects, laying the groundwork for a new understan-

ding of the premodern history of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. The

book covers the period from the Christianization of Kyivan Rus in the

tenth century to the reign of Peter I and his eighteenth-century succes-

sors, by which time the idea of nationalism had begun to inﬂuence the

thinking of East Slavic elites.

is Professor of History and associate director of

the Peter Jacyk Centre at the University of Alberta. His numerous

publications on Russian and Ukrainian history include The Cossacks and

Religion in Early Modern Ukraine (2001), and Unmaking Imperial Russia:

Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History (2005).

The Origins of the

Slavic Nations

Premodern Identities in Russia,

Ukraine, and Belarus

Serhii Plokhy

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First published in print format

2006

ISBN-13 978-0-511-24704-0

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