
9: Polish Power and Cossack Revolution
The Making of Modern Ukraine
The Cossacks and the Polish System
The Cossacks are free people who manage to escape this system. They escape the system in which either you are a noble research, right? That's the Polish system. And they escape that system by going into the steppe, into what's now the southeast of Ukraine. The precipitating reason has to do with the Cossacks themselves and whether or not Cossack are part of the Polish stateOrEvoy: In early 17th century, circa 1620, Poland is bigger than it ever will be before or again.
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