Historian Every Saturday: Viktor Horobets. Ukrainian Cossackdom: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You (26.10.2024)
A lecture by the historian Viktor Horobets (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) on early modern Ukrainian Cossackdom. The article draws on the segment about the types of Cossackdom (Zaporozhian/town/registered) and about the Hetmanate as a “Cossack variant of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth” — a product of Commonwealth democracy, as opposed to the Muscovite autocratic model (Khmelnytsky’s 1657 attempt to introduce hereditary power). A source for the article on the legal tradition of early modern Ukraine.
Key moments
- 6:42 Types of Cossackdom: Zaporozhian, town, registered/unregistered
- 25:16 Lower (Zaporozhian) Cossackdom — reciprocal relations; the state-based kind — redistributive
- 26:39 The Hetmanate as a 'Cossack variant of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth'
- 36:25 Khmelnytsky in 1657 against Cossack democracy; Moscow — the autocratic model