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9: Polish Power and Cossack Revolution

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Polish Language Is the Language of the Nobles in Lithuania

Polish language becomes the language of literate people in Grand Duchy of Lithuania which includes again Belarus and Ukraine. By about as far as we can tell by about 1640 most serious discussions in what's now Ukraine among theologians, educated people were taking place in the Polish language. So things are going both ways but in general the high culture is spreading from west to east. In Lithuania the attitude towards Moscow was necessarily different than in Poland. The Lithuanians were more or less constantly fighting wars with Moscow. And the Lithuanians until the time many Lithuanians at least until the time of the von the terrible had the idea that we can make a deal with the muscovites right

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