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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131427803321

Autore

Giovanna Brogi Bercoff

Titolo

The battle of Konotop 1659 : exploring alternatives in East European history / / Oleg Rumyantsev and Giovanna Brogi Bercoff (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ledizioni, 2012

Milano : , : Ledizioni, , 2012

ISBN

88-6705-364-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (126 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Di/segni  The Battle of Konotop 1659

Soggetti

Konotop, Battle of, Konotop, Sums§ka oblast§, Ukraine, 1659 - Historiography

Konotop, Battle of, Konotop, Sums§ka oblast§, Ukraine, 1659

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Russia & Former Soviet Republics

Ukraine History, Military 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 treatment 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.