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5: Vikings, Slavers, Lawgivers: The Kyiv State

The Making of Modern Ukraine

CHAPTER

The Origin Story

Professor Snyder: It's hard to explain how you get from no polity to a polity. Statehood protects the people that the state recognizes from being enslaved by other people, he says. "The same people who do this enslaving are also often the same people who start the state"

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