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19: Oligarchies in Russia and Ukraine

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Polish Power and the Crimean Tatars

The Cossack rebellion of 1648 is largely about that. If Bogdan Hmalnitsky had better access to justice by way of courts, if he'd been seen as a noble, then probably no rebellion, at least not at that time. There's an important idea of property rights and the desire of Ukrainian peasants to have property. And even after Poland no longer exists, it's still the Polish aristocracy that owns much of the land in right bank Ukraine.

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