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Lost Kingdom

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by Serhii Plokhy


  “Having trampled on the sacred rights”: Andrei Zorin, Kormia dvuglavogo orla: Literatura i gosudarstvennaia ideologiia v Rossii v poslednei treti XVIII–pervoi treti XIX veka (Moscow, 2001), 155.

  “during the troubled times of Russia”: Barbara Skinner, The Western Front of the Eastern Church: Uniate and Orthodox Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia (DeKalb, IL, 2009), 204.

  “the most suitable eradication”: Ibid., 203–204.

  CHAPTER 5: THE POLISH CHALLENGE

  “One Pole is a charmer”: Norman Davies, God’s Playground: A History of Poland (Oxford, 2005), vol. 1, 386.

  “I love your nation”: V. I. Picheta, “Pol’skaia konfederatsiia v 1812 godu,” in Otechestvennaia voina i russkoe obshchestvo (St. Petersburg, 1812), vol. 3, 159.

  “We are restoring Poland”: Ibid., 157.

  “Let Lithuania, Samogitia”: Ibid., 159.

  “In every noble, let him encounter”: Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda: Sbornik dokumentov i materialov, eds. Evegneii Tarle and Anatolii Predtechenskii (Moscow, 2015), 30.

  “We hope… that this philoprogenitive”: Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi imperii (St. Petersburg, 1830), vol. 32, 481–482.

  “Will they say that she”: Nikolai Karamzin, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii (Moscow, 1998), vol. 18, 11.

  “Warsaw is at Your Majesty’s feet”: Boris Tarasov, Nikolai I: Rytsar’ samoderzhaviia (Moscow, 2006), 355.

  “Whose will Volhynia be?”: Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (New York, 2015), 153.

  “How to establish popular education”: Reka vremen (kniga istorii i kul’tury) (Moscow, 1995), vol. 1, 70.

  “Why not translate”: P. A. Viazemskii, Estetika i iteraturnaia kritika (Moscow, 1984), 23.

  “For some time we have been”: Aleksandr Pushkin, Sobranie sochinenii v desiati tomakh (Moscow, 1959–1962), vol. 7, 267.

  “one and the other”: Aleksandr Andreev, Istoriia gosudarstvennoi vlasti v Rossii (Moscow, 1999), 160.

  “God, Sovereign, and Fatherland”: Reka vremen, vol. 1, 72.

  CHAPTER 6: THE BATTLE FOR THE BORDERLANDS

  “As long as I live”: Russkii biograficheskii slovar’, vol. 11, part 1, 45.

  “Nicholas, Tsar of Poland”: Dmitrii Oleinikov, Nikolai I (Moscow, 2012), 254.

  “Finland, Estland, Livland”: Konstitutsionnye proekty Rossii: 1799–1825 (Munich, 2007), 139.

  “All illustrious rulers”: Aleksei Miller, “Triada grafa Uvarova i natsionalizm,” Istoricheskie zapiski, no. 11 (2008): 191.

  “belonged to Russia in ancient times”: Konstitutsionnye proekty Rossii, 156.

  “The major fact in the history”: Stephen Velychenko, National History as a Cultural Process (Edmonton, 1992), 98.

  “precious to all Russia”: Kievskii universitet: Dokumenty i materialy, 1834–1984, eds. M. Belyi and V. Zamlinskii (Kyiv, 1984), 14.

  “to smooth over as much as possible”: Sergei Uvarov, Gosudarstvennye osnovy (Moscow, 2014), 51.

  “Immeasurable Russia”: Aleksei Chaplin, “Russkoe imia i russkaia vera Ukrainy,” in Moskva 10 (2016): 231.

  “how to turn Uniates”: Zapiski Iosifa mitropolita Litovskogo (St. Petersburg, 1883), vol. 2, 14–15.

  “In order to warm the hearts”: Ibid., 18.

  “With Lithuania’s detachment”: Ibid., 83–84.

  “the reconsolidation”: Ibid., 91.

  CHAPTER 7: THE ADVENT OF UKRAINE

  “Brothers! A great hour is upon us”: A. V. Smirnov, “Stranitsy zhizni i tvorchestva istorika,” in Nikolai Kostomarov, Russkaia istoriia v opisanii ee glavneishikh deiatelei (Moscow, 2004), 18.

  “It seems to us”: Taras Shevchenko v krytytsi, ed. Hryhorii Hrabovych (Kyiv, 2012), vol. 1, 4.

  “We would advise him”: Ibid., 6.

  “For Russian readers”: Olga Andriewsky, “The Russian-Ukrainian Discourse and the Failure of the ‘Little Russian Solution,’ 1782–1917,” in Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter, 1600–1945, eds. Andreas Kappeler, Zenon E. Kohut, Frank E. Sysyn, and Mark von Hagen (Edmonton, 2003), 191.

  “The Great Russians live side by side”: Ibid.

  “The uncovering of a Slavic”: Kyrylo-Mefodiivs’ke tovarystvo: U triоkh tomakh, eds. H. I. Marakhov and V. H. Sarbei (Kyiv, 1990), vol. 1, 62.

  “The political evil”: Ibid., 64.

  “Ukraine will become”: Ibid., 169.

  “Along with favorite poems”: Ibid., 67.

  “so that all may know the fate”: Ibid., 68.

  “Obviously the work”: Aleksei Miller, Ukrainskii vopros v politike vlastei i russkom obshchestvennom mnenii (vtoraia polovina XIX veka) (St. Petersburg, 2000), 56.

  “Harsh measures will make”: Kyrylo-Mefodiivs’ke tovarystvo, vol. 1, 308.

  “Through the minister of popular education”: Ibid., 293.

  “writers should be most careful”: Miller, Ukrainskii vopros, 58.

  “In the south, in Kyiv”: Petr Zaionchkovskii, Kirillo-mefodievskoe obshchestyvo (Moscow, 1959), 138.

  “Shevchenko was sent to the Caucasus”: Vissarion Belinskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii (Moscow, 1956), vol. 12, 441.

  “Oh, those topknots”: Ibid.

  “turned out to be”: Kyrylo-Mefodiivs’ke tovarystvo, vol. 1, 63.

  “some kind of murky”: Ibid., 294.

  “The Little Russians were eventually affected”: Alexei Miller, The Ukrainian Question: The Russian Empire and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century (New York, 2003), 60.

  “I read Konysky”: Serhii Plokhy, The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires (Cambridge, 2012), 318.

  “The fact that I love Kyiv”: Mikhail Maksimovich, “Otvetnye pis’ma M. P. Pogodinu,” Russkaia beseda 2 (1857): 85.

  “The supposed Little Russians”: Mikhail Pogodin, Drevniia russkaia istoriia do mongol’skogo iga (Moscow, 1871).

  “Language—that is the true boundary”: Mikhail Pogodin, Izbrannye trudy (Moscow, 2010), 341.

  “he was carried out”: Memoir of E. F. Iunge, in Kievskaia starina 28, no. 1 (1890): 23.

  “No law, no institution”: David Saunders, “Mykola Kostomarov (1817–1885) and the Creation of the Ukrainian Ethnic Identity,” Slavonica 7, no. 1 (2001): 15.

  CHAPTER 8: GREAT, LITTLE, AND WHITE

  “I have always been of the opinion”: Quotation supplied by Nathaniel Knight.

  “Well, and what if”: Aleksandr Gertsen, “Rosiia i Pol’sha: Pis’mo vtoroe,” Kolokol, 1859.

  “You have expressed an opinion”: Mykola Kostomarov, Pys’mo do vydavtsia “Kolokola” (Lviv, 1902), 15.

  “Besides the Rus’ nationality”: Nikolai Kostomarov, “Dve russkie narodnosti,” Osnova, no. 3 (1861): 34.

  “If the South Russian nation”: Ibid., 78.

  “Russian or, better, Belarusian”: Mikhail Dolbilov, Russkii krai, chuzhaia vera: Ėtnokonfessional’naia politika imperii v Litve i Belorussii pri Aleksandre II (Moscow, 2010), 199.

  “strong in numbers, popular education”: Ibid., 220.

  “The children of the old Krivichians”: Ibid., 221.

  “to restrain all foolish Great Russian passions”: Ibid., 212.

  “Russia is now saving Belarus”: Ibid., 221.

  “They write to us”: Ibid., 222.

  CHAPTER 9: KILLING THE LANGUAGE

  “That phenomenon is all the more deplorable”: Aleksei Miller, Ukrainskii vopros v politike vlastei i russkom obshchestvennom mnenii (vtoraia polovina XIX veka) (St. Petersburg, 2000), 241.

  “In our time, the question”: Ibid., 79.

  “Teaching the Little Russian people”: Ibid., 82–83.

  “Debate continues in the literature”: Ibid., 100.

  “Ukraine has never had its own history”: Mikhail Katkov, Imperskoe slovo (Moscow, 2002), 146.

  “Outrageous and ridiculous sophistry!”: Ibid., 144.

  “You, Messrs. Ukrainophiles”: [Nikolai Rigel’man,] “Sovremennoe ukrainofil�
�stvo,” in Ukrainskii vopros v russkoi patrioticheskoi mysli, comp. A. Iu. Minakov (Moscow, 2016), 179, 184.

  “put a stop to the activity”: Miller, Ukrainskii vopros, 241.

  “to support the newspaper Slovo”: Ibid., 243.

  “Austria’s attention to the Ruthenians”: Ibid., 201.

  “Our Ruthenian people”: Proekt politicheskoi programy dlia Rusi avstriiskoi (Lviv, 1871), 9–10.

  “The Ukrainian question, presented”: Ibid., 12–13.

  CHAPTER 10: THE PEOPLE’S SONG

  “We working men of St. Petersburg”: Khrestomatiia po istorii SSSR, ed. Yurii Korablev (Moscow, 1988), 42.

  “The very credit of our priests”: Theodore Weeks, Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier (DeKalb, IL, 1996), 180.

  “had already made”: Zaborona ukraïns’koho slova v Rossiï, introduction by Mykhailo Hrushevs’kyi (Scranton, PA, 1916), 33, 43.

  “The Belarusians, too, are following”: D. Kotsiubinskii, Russkii natsionalizm v nachale XX veka: Rozhdenie i gibel’ ideologii Vserosiiskogo natsional’nogo soiuza (Moscow, 2001), 310.

  “The representatives of the nation”: Primary Sources in Russian History 1801–1917, ed. John Etty (Corby, UK, 2009), 77.

  “I am profoundly convinced”: Petr Struve, “Obscherusskaia kul’tura i ukrainskii partikuliarizm: Otvet ukraintsu,” Russkaya mysl’, no. 1 (1912): 66.

  “We are not guided by aspirations”: S. Breiar, “Partiia kadetov i ukrainskii vopros, 1905–1917,” in Issledovaniia po istorii Ukrainy i Belorussii, vyp. 1 (Moscow, 1995), 89–110.

  “the good of the motherland lies”: Rossiia, 1900–1917: Dokumenty, materialy, kommentarii, ed. I. K. Kir’ianov (Perm, Russia, 1991), 130.

  “The members are local”: I. V. Omelianchuk, “Chislennost’ Soiuza russkogo naroda v 1907–1914 godakh v pravoberezhnykh ukrainskikh guberniiakh,” in Belorussiia i Ukraina (Moscow, 2006), 156.

  “sowing enmity”: Ibid., 159.

  “The Black Hundred political organization”: Politburo TsK RKP(b)—VKP(b) i Kommintern, 1919–1943 (Moscow, 2004), 64.

  “I am a little Russian”: Kotsiubinskii, Russkii natsionalizm, 303–304.

  “The Mazepists are well aware”: Ibid., 305.

  CHAPTER 11: THE FALL OF THE MONARCHY

  “A great historical fact”: Petereburgskii listok, August 19, 1914.

  “True to its historical precepts”: Viacheslav Shatsillo, Pervaia mirovaia voina, 1914–1918: Fakty, dokumenty (Moscow, 2003), 89.

  “Brothers!… The judgment of God is upon us!”: M. K. Lemke, 250 dnei v tsarskoi stavke, ed. L. M. Suris (Moscow, 2015), vol. 1, 31.

  “I shall establish the Russian language”: P. S. Romanov, Rus’ (Moscow, 2015), vol. 2, 314.

  “Let the borders that cut”: Lemke, 250 dnei v tsarskoi sravke, 30.

  “an end to the anti-state system”: S. Breіar, “Partiia kadetov i ukrainskii vopros, 1905–1917,” in Issledovaniia po istorii Ukrainy i Belorussii, vyp. 1 (Moscow, 1995), 89–110.

  “The farther we traveled”: Perepiska Nikolaia i Aleksandry Romanovykh, 1914–1915 gg. (Moscow, 1923), 164.

  “Your Imperial Highness”: Put’ moei zhizni: Vospominaniia mitropolita Evlogiia (Georgievskogo) (Moscow, 1994), 248.

  “Let there be one mighty”: Sergei Sergeev-Tsenskii, Preobrazhenie Rossii (Moscow, 1956), 282.

  “For the last time I felt”: Ol’ga Aleksandrovna: Memuary (Moscow, 2003), 159.

  “to the whole people”: Pavel Miliukov, Istoriia vtoroi russkoi revoliutsii (Moscow, 2014), 49.

  “Recognizing the independence”: E. Ketola, “Revoliutsiia 1917 goda i obretenie Finliandiei nezavisimosti: Dva vzgliada na problemu,” Otechestvennaia istoriia 6 (1993): 29.

  CHAPTER 12: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

  “Broad autonomy for Ukraine”: Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Na porozi novoi Ukrainy: Statti i dzherel’ni materialy (New York, 1992), 146.

  “The Socialist Revolutionaries”: Vladimir Lenin, Polnoe sovranie sochinenii (Moscow, 1969), vol. 32, 350.

  “the Ukrainian People’s Republic and its right”: Ibid., vol. 35, 144.

  “mercilessly to destroy all officers”: Nikolai Azovtsev, Direktivy komandovaniia frontov Krasnoi armii, 1917–1922 (Moscow, 1971), 45.

  “order has been reestablished”: Viktor Savchenko, Avantiuristy Grazhdanskoi voiny (Moscow, 2000), 53.

  “If Ukraine remains indifferent”: Anna Procyk, Russian Nationalism and Ukraine: The Nationality Policy of the Volunteer Army During the Civil War (Edmonton, 1995), 73.

  “The former vigor”: Ibid., 74.

  “off this disoriented group”: Anders Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906–1931 (Pittsburgh, 2015), 73.

  “the earliest stages”: Ibid., 74.

  “Today we, the Rada”: Nicholas P. Vakar, Belorussia: The Making of a Nation. A Case Study (Cambridge, MA, 1956), 103.

  “The first important question”: Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 90.

  CHAPTER 13: LENIN’S VICTORY

  “Measures should be taken”: Vladimir Lenin, Polnoe sovranie sochinenii (Moscow, 1969), vol. 39, 335.

  “Soviet institutions must have”: Ibid.

  “Among Bolsheviks”: Ibid., vol. 40, 45.

  “as a party that violates”: Ibid., vol. 39, 251.

  “It is important that we not”: Ibid., vol. 45, 212.

  “Comrade Kamenev”: Ibid., vol. 45, 214.

  “The Georgian who takes”: Ibid., vol. 45, 360.

  “It is a question of the bond”: Dvenadtsatyi s’ezd Rossiiskoi kommunisticheskoi partii (Moscow, 1923), 529.

  “the Great Russian proletariat”: Ibid., 596.

  “We cannot take the viewpoint of neutrality”: Ibid., 604.

  “It is only on condition of a struggle”: Ibid., 598.

  “In departing from us, comrade Lenin”: Propagandist, no. 21 (1939): 22.

  CHAPTER 14: NATIONAL COMMUNISM

  “that Russia has not died”: Vasilii Shulgin, Tri stolitsy: Puteshestvie v krasnuiu Rossiiu (Moscow, 1991), 417.

  “But that time, too, has passed”: Ibid., 100.

  “What do you want?”: Ibid., 204.

  “We must not force”: Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Ithaca, NY, 2001), 214, 216.

  “I have a note saying”: Desiatyi s’ezd Rossiiskoi kommunisticheskoi partii (Moscow, 1921), 213.

  “This is a blow”: Anders Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906–1931 (Pittsburgh, 2015), 140.

  “I said that division into small”: Shulgin, Tri stolitsy, 207.

  CHAPTER 15: THE RETURN OF RUSSIA

  “With the active assistance”: “Edinaia sem’ia narodov,” Pravda, January 30, 1936.

  “The nation that has given the world”: Ibid.

  “The attempt to apply the epithets”: Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917–1953, eds. Katerina Clark, Evgeny Dobrenko, Andrei Artizov, and Oleg V. Naumov (New Haven, CT, 2007), 69.

  “libel against our people”: Benedikt Sarnov, Stalin i pisateli (Moscow, 2008), 495.

  “the main danger is represented”: Iosif Stalin, Stat’i i rechi ob Ukraine (Moscow, 1936), 223.

  “In the past, the Russian people”: David Brandenberger, National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931–1956 (Cambridge, MA, 2002), 34.

  “Whoever raises his hand”: “Za rodinu,” Pravda, June 9, 1934.

  “That tsarist rule in Russia”: Iosif Stalin, “O stat’e Ėngelsa ‘Vneshniaia politika russkogo tsarizma,’” Bol’shevik, no. 9 (May 1931): 1–5.

  “love of work, culture”: Aleksandr Vdovin, Russkie v XX veke: Fakty, sobytiia, liudi (Moscow, 2004), 78.

  “Once I said to Lenin”: Ibid., 103.

  “I well understand”: Ibid., 89.

  “an attempt to exalt the robbers”: Viktor Danilov
, Vlast’ i formirovanie istoricheskogo soznaniia sovetskogo obshchestva (Moscow, 2005), 116.

  “The history of the great Russian people”: Vlast’ i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsia, eds. Oleg Naumov, Andrei Artizov (Moscow, 1999), 337.

  “The Russian tsars”: Vdovin, Russkie v XX veke, 407.

  “Last night, as I walked home”: Brandenberger, National Bolshevism, 106.

  “First among these equals”: Ibid., 43.

  “The great Russian people leads”: Boris Volin, “Velikii russkii narod,” Bol’shevik 9 (1938): 34.

  CHAPTER 16: THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

  “The Soviet government”: Serhii Plokhy, “The Call of Blood: Government Propaganda and Public Response to the Soviet Entry into World War II,” Cahiers du monde russe 52, nos. 2–3 (2011): 303–304.

  “to declare that Poland”: Ibid., 295.

  “The authors do not see”: Serhy Yekelchyk, Stalin’s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (Toronto, 2004), 15–26.

  “Not for the first time”: “Vystuplenie po radio V. M. Molotva 22 iiunia 1941 g.,” Khrestomatiia po istorii Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny, comp. V. E. Lebedinskaia (Moscow, 2015), 37.

  “to reestablish the rule”: Iosif Stalin, O Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine Sovetskogo naroda (Moscow, 1948), 13.

  “The war that you are waging”: Ibid., 40.

  “Partisans, partisans”: Ianka Kupala, Izbrannye proizvedeniia (Moscow, 1953), vol. 2, 222.

  “two leading peoples”: David Brandenberger, National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931–1956 (Cambridge, MA, 2002), 158.

  “The book is anti-Russian”: Ibid., 125.

  CHAPTER 17: THE SOVIET PEOPLE

  “The solution of one”: “Rech’ tovarishcha G. V. Malenkova,” Kommunist, no. 3 (1953): 12.

  “By linking their destiny”: “Theses on the Three-Hundredth Anniversary of the Reunion of Ukraine and Russia,” in Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine, eds. Ralph Lindheim and George S. N. Luckyj (Toronto, 1996), 303–304.

 

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