Mykhailo Hrushevsky History of Ukraine-Rus'volume 1: From Prehistory to the Eleventh Century lxvi, 602 pp. 2 maps, 1 photograph
Translated by Marta Skorupsky
Edited by Andrzej Poppe, Consulting Editor, and
Frank E. Sysyn, Editor-in-Chief, with Uliana M. Pasicznyk
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About the Book History of Ukraine-Rus',volume 1, From Prehistory to the Eleventh Century discusses the Ukrainian land and the people who inhabited it from the earliest times up to the formation of the Rus' state and its Christianization. Hrushevsky examines the emergence of Rus' civilization through the prisms of archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, and historical linguistics. He gives penetrating analyses of historical sources and pays special attention to the Primary Chronicle and the Normanist Controversy. The newly compiled bibliography of more than 1,700 items includes all manuscripts, published sources, and secondary works used by Hrushevsky.
About the Author Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934) was Ukraine's greatest historian. His academic career began at Kyiv University, where in 1890 he graduated from the Department of History and Philology. Appointed professor of history at Lviv University in 1894, he became a leading figure in the Shevchenko Scientific Society and in the scholarly and cultural community centered in Lviv. In 1918, he was head of the government of the independent Ukrainian republic. From 1924 to 1931, in Kyiv, he organized historical studies at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. An extraordinarily prolific writer, he produced some 2,000 scholarly works. His magnum opus, the Istoriia Ukraïny-Rusy (History of Ukraine-Rus'), appeared between 1898 and 1937. These ten published volumes (in eleven books) trace Ukrainian history from the earliest times to the post-Khmelnytsky era in the late 1650s. The History was internationally acclaimed at the time of its publication, but in Soviet Ukraine after the 1930s no scholarly references to it were permitted to appear. Attempts in the 1960s to "rehabilitate" Hrushevsky and his works failed, and it was only in the late 1980s that the Ukrainian public began to regain access to the History.
About the Translator Marta Skorupsky is a New York-based translator with nearly thirty years of experience translating from Ukrainian and Russian into English on a wide range of subjects. She is the editor of Documents for the Study of the History of Literature and of Ideological Trends. Correspondence from American Archives, part 2 (1992), translated Atanasii V. Pekar'sThe History of the Church in Carpathian Rus' (1992), and annotated collection of letters written by leading Ukrainian literary figures and political thinkers during the 1920s and early 1930s. She is a former editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian-language monthly Suchasnist' and commentator for the Ukrainian Service of Radio Liberty.
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