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9: Polish Power and Cossack Revolution

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Poland Is a Structure Different From Muscovy

From Poland we are going to get Catholicism, an encounter with Catholicism with Roman Catholicism. We're also going to get the emergence of something called Greek Catholicism which still exists in Ukraine today. The Polish language and a Polish version of the Renaissance. A republic means a state which is for the public but who is the public? In some sense an attempt to answer that question by the Cossacks is where a clear national history - or at least anti-colonial history -- begins.

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