{"id":12651,"date":"2023-01-02T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/ksiazek\/ukraina-wyrwac-sie-z-przeszlosci\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T06:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:46:13","slug":"ukraina-wyrwac-sie-z-przeszlosci","status":"publish","type":"ksiazek","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/ksiazek\/ukraina-wyrwac-sie-z-przeszlosci\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine. Overcoming the Past (Ukraina. Wyrwa\u0107 si\u0119 z przesz\u0142o\u015bci)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unusual because it was written with an eye to the future. It tells the story of the country from the baptism of Kiev\u2019s Prince Vladimir in 988 until full-scale Russian aggression in 2022. It was written for young people; for Ukrainians gaining their civic shilling on the Maidan and for their peers abroad, on whom the future of Europe and the world depends.
Hrytsak\u2019s history of Ukraine is based on the local history of Europe, on the country\u2019s relations with Poland, Belarus, and Russia, but it is also global in its scope, with the author referring to political and social processes in other corners of the globe: Argentina, Burkina Faso, Chile, China, Germany, United States. Although Hrytsak wrote the final pages of this book in the early months of the 2022 war, he focused as much on the political, economic, social, and linguistic developments of the last 200 years. That is why his history of Ukraine is strikingly modern, combining entirely new perspectives with those that are presently well known in Poland: Hrytsak critically addresses the legacy of serfdom, examines the roots of Ukrainian anti-Semitism, studies all shades of nationalism, separates the language, the nation, and the land. He confronts other researchers and theories, and their final verifier becomes the reality of war as the ultimate context of the writing process.
Between the chapters, addressing the history of Ukraine, Hrytsak inserts shorter essays focused on selected topics that cut across history, developed in accordance with the perspective of the longue dur\u00e9e<\/em>: grain, songs, borderland, violence, language. They intertwine into dramatic, engaging narratives, micro-histories where \u2013 in keeping with Albert Camus\u2019s imperative \u2013 Hrytsak is always against the perpetrators, and on the side of the victims and the heroes. The front lines intersect here extremely often, notions become ambiguous, the spiral of violence winds up like in no other place in the world, Ukraine repeatedly becomes the site of ethnic, political, economic, and nuclear experiments \u2013 this moral imperative derived from the words of the author of The Fall<\/em> thus marks the horizon of Hrytsak\u2019s account.
Unlike other researchers, Hrytsak does not turn to the past, but directs his gaze towards the future, writing for people who gained their civic skills during Maidan or Euromaidan. He poses questions not so much about the identity and formation of the nation, but about the chances and ways of modernising Ukraine.
He avoids historical memory, believing that going beyond stereotypes only allows one to look at the facts \u2013 no matter how painful they may be. In his story, the wide perspective makes various events, treated as local and specific only to Ukraine, suddenly become part of a larger whole: the processes of globalisation and modernisation that have shaped the world at least since the discovery of America.
This is a book that speaks openly about certain complex phenomena, here Yanukovych is an ex-criminal and Putin is an ex-Kagievist who does not believe in the sincerity of any grassroots political movement.
Translated into Polish by Katarzyna Koty\u0144ska and Joanna Majewska\u2011Grabowska<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Content<\/summary>\n

Wst\u0119p
<\/strong>Dlaczego jeszcze jedna historia Ukrainy?
Jak pisa\u0107 histori\u0119 Ukrainy?
Rozdzia\u0142 pierwszy. Co tkwi w nazwie?
<\/strong>Ukraina i Ukrai\u0144cy
Ru\u015b i inni
Tradycja i nowoczesno\u015b\u0107
Rozdzia\u0142 drugi. Ru\u015b
<\/strong>Mi\u0119dzy \u015bwiatem cywilizowanym a barbarzy\u0144skim
Mi\u0119dzy Waregami a Grekami
Ru\u015b pa\u0144stwowa i prawos\u0142awna
D\u0142ugi cie\u0144 Rusi
Kr\u00f3tka historia ukrai\u0144skiego zbo\u017ca
Rozdzia\u0142 trzeci. Kozacka Ukraina
<\/strong>Rzeczpospolita: Zach\u00f3d w polskim kontuszu
Od Kolumba do Kozak\u00f3w
Jak Kozacy zostali Ukrai\u0144cami
Pa\u0144stwo kozackie
Kr\u00f3tka historia ukrai\u0144skiej pie\u015bni
Rozdzia\u0142 czwarty. D\u0142ugie XIX stulecie
<\/strong>Ukrai\u0144skie d\u0142ugie XIX stulecie
Odrodzenie narodowe
Wymiar geopolityczny
Literacka Ukraina
Walka poet\u00f3w
Urbanizacja i industrializacja
Ch\u0142opskie morze
Kr\u00f3tka historia ukrai\u0144skiego pogranicza
Rozdzia\u0142 pi\u0105ty. Ukraina 1914\u20131945
<\/strong>Wielka Wojna
Ukrai\u0144ska rewolucja
Wojna wszystkich ze wszystkimi
Rewolucja ch\u0142opska
Ukrainizacja
Ho\u0142odomor
Ukraina Zachodnia
Radykalizacja ukrai\u0144skiego ruchu nacjonalistycznego
Kwestia ukrai\u0144ska w drugiej wojnie \u015bwiatowej
1914\u20131945: podsumowanie
Kr\u00f3tka historia przemocy
Rozdzia\u0142 sz\u00f3sty. Powojenna Ukraina
<\/strong>Kraj bez przesz\u0142o\u015bci
Sze\u015b\u0107dziesi\u0105tnicy: globalne pokolenie
Rewolucja, kt\u00f3ra si\u0119 nie odby\u0142a
Stracone dziesi\u0119ciolecia
Nieobywatelska rewolucja
Przemy\u015blenie Ukrainy na nowo
Kr\u00f3tka historia ukrai\u0144skiego j\u0119zyka
Rozdzia\u0142 si\u00f3dmy. Niepodleg\u0142a Ukraina
Pos\u0142owie
Podzi\u0119kowania
Bibliografia
Indeks nazwisk
Spis map
Spis ilustracji
O autorze<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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