
5: Vikings, Slavers, Lawgivers: The Kyiv State
The Making of Modern Ukraine
The Dictionary of the Hazars
The people who dominated Kiev and Ukraine at the time were the Hazars. We have no written documents at all that are directly from their state. It was a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional realm, which had lots of non-monotheistic believers in it as well. There was rivalry among the various monotheisms about which monotheism they all converted to.
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