9: Polish Power and Cossack Revolution
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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The Reformation in Ukraine Is Going On, Right?
In Poland in the 16th century, most of the nobility actually goes Protestant. So that's one thing which is very dramatic about the situation. And then after about three generations of this, you're going to have a top layer of the Ukrainian population. You generally have the richest nobles, the people who also own a lot of land and a lot of serfs, they're going to be Roman Catholic. There's a new religious question. And then the final thing which is going to happen, which I've already suggested, is the social question. Suddenly, Poles can own land in Ukraine. They also insert their peasants. They also sell it up the Visjila River into Europe and
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