| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 29, 2012 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
This talk explores the use of the terms “Ukrainian nation” and “Ruthenian nation” by Hetman Petro Doroshenko and his contemporaries. It demonstrates that the Ukrainian terminology was reserved for the territory under the authority of the hetman which traditionally included the palatinates of Kyiv, Bratslav, and Chernihiv. In fact, it argues that Hetman Doroshenko’s rule represented the apogee of a growing Ukrainian identity, the major component of which included a defined Ukrainian territory and concepts of a Ukrainian Fatherland and a Ukrainian nation. Yet this Ukrainian nation was still part and parcel of a larger Ruthenian nation. While the hetman and the Zaporozhian Cossack Host were the “possessors” of Ukraine, they also continued to play the role of protectors of the Ruthenian nation both in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Hetman Doroshenko, moreover, actively attempted to unite Ruthenian-inhabited territories into a Ruthenian-Ukrainian state. Thus, the concept of a common Ruthenian nationhood encompassing Ukraine, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, acted as a barrier for the emergence of the idea of a completely separate Ukrainian nation. The Ukrainian nomenclature was further diminished by the elimination of the Right-Bank Hetmanate (its chief proponent) and the utilization of an alternative “Little Russia” nomenclature within the surviving Left-Bank Hetmanate.
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