The book will comprehensively tell to a wide audience of readers about the difficult historical events, as well as will be of use for those who professionally study the Ukrainian history – lecturers, teachers, students, schoolchildren."
The National Book Rating recognized the book as one of the best books of 2009 in the nomination "historical fiction".
In Ukrainian.
Number of pages: 204, illustrated edition, chalk paper
Cover: hard
Publisher: "Krion", Kyiv
Table of Contents:
- Chasy velykykh peremin
Hlava 1. Rizni pahony odnoho davn‘orus‘koho stovbura:
- Ukrajina-Rus‘ Halyts‘ka i Podil‘s‘ka
- Ukrajina-Rus‘ Zakarpats‘ka
- Ukrajina-Rus‘ Bukovyns‘ka
- Ukrajina-Rus‘ "Lytovs‘ka"
- Ukrajina-Rus‘ "Moskovs‘ka"
- Pivdenna i Stepova Ukrajina
Hlava 2. Narodzhennja Rechi Pospolytoji ta vkhodzhennja do neji ukrajins‘kykh zemel‘:
- Ekzekutsiynyy rukh ta stanovlennja shljakhets‘koji demokratiji
- Bat‘ko shljakhets‘koho "zolotoho viku"
- Zems‘ki reformy u Velykomu knjazivstvi Lytovs‘ko-Rus‘komu 1560-kh rokiv
- Moskovs‘ke "zbyrannja zemel‘" ta Livons‘ka viyna
- Burkhlyvi prystrasti seymovykh bataliy u Ljublini
- "Bo zh my je narodom tak poshtyvym, shcho zhodnomu narodovi na sviti ne postupymos‘..."
Hlava 3. Nova derzhava, novi porjadky, novi symvoly:
- Terytorija i vladni symvoly novoji derzhavy
- "Korol‘ Rechi Pospolytoji to korol‘ koroliv..."
- Vykonavcha vlada
- Vyshcha zakonodavcha vlada Rechi Pospolytoji
- Mistseve shljakhets‘ke samovrjaduvannja
- "Shljakhtych bez urjadu – jak pes bez khvosta"
- Sudochynstvo Rechi Pospolytoji – na paperi ta v zhytti
- Metryka Rus‘ka
- Zbroyni syly derzhavy
Hlava 4. Nove panstvo novoji derzhavy:
- Mahnaty, shljakhta, bojary
- Fil‘varky, mahnats‘ki kljuchi y ordynatsiji
- Shljakhets‘ki herby
- Sarmats‘ka ideolohija shljakhty
- Ukrajins‘kyy variant sarmatyzmu
Hlava 5. Pochatky kozats‘koji ery v ukrajins‘kiy ta jevropeys‘kiy istoriji:
- Spil‘noty, porodzheni viynoju
- Predtechi kozatstva
- Pershi zhadky pro kozakiv-musul‘man ta kozakiv-khrystyjan
- Vnutrishnje pererodzhennja kozatstva u XVI st.
- Susid i holovnyy oponent kozatstva – Kryms‘kyy khanat
- "Nekhay otets‘ i matusja moju pryhodu kozats‘ku znajut‘, statky-majetky zbuvajut‘..."
- Osmans‘ka Porta
- "Sich – maty, Velykyy Luh – bat‘ko, otam treba y umyraty"
Hlava 6. Knjazi Ostroz‘ki – nekoronovani koroli Ukrajiny:
- Pershi vidomi knjazi Ostroz‘ki
- Velykyy het‘man Kostjantyn Ivanovych Ostroz‘kyy
- Nekoronovanyy korol‘ Rusi knjaz‘ Kostjantyn Vasyl‘
- Ostroz‘kyy dukhovnyy ta kul‘turno-osvitniy tsentr
- Ostroz‘ka Biblija
- "Chorna knjahynja" z rodu ostroz‘kykh
Hlava 7. Zmitsnennja shljakhets‘koji demokratiji u roky Velykoho bezkoroliv’ja:
- Ukrajins‘ki zemli pid vladoju korolja-frantsuza
- Henrykovi artykuly ta pacta conventa
- Druhe bezkoroliv’ja Rechi Pospolytoji
- "Ne hlynjanyy i ne mal‘ovanyy", a spravzhniy korol‘
- Kozats‘ka reforma Batorija
Avansy i spodivannja vid narodzhennja novoji vitchyzny
Vykorystana literatura
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