11: Ottoman Retreat, Russian Power, Ukrainian Populism
The Making of Modern Ukraine
The Crimean Tatars and the Ukrainian Cossack State
In 1699 the Ottomans sign a treaty as a defeated power. The Crimean Tatars are now, they've now basically hitched to the Ottoman. They're hitched at a moment when the Ottoman power has been driven southward. Now that changes everything for the Russians as we're going to see in a moment. There is something like Ukrainian statehood - it's called the Hetmenet after the Hetman. But the HetMenet is constantly bending and turning and being turned against itself. And of course, if you're on one side, your greatest aspiration is to be also on the other side. That's the triangle. You want to bring
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