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This section relies heavily on descriptions in four main history books: Subtelny (1988) and (1999), Magosci (1991), (1996) and Plokhy (2015); precise referencing is given only for quotes, or when drawing on other sources.
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- 1.
As cited in Wikipedia, “Kyivan Rus”, accessed 6 July 2015. The Primary Chronicle was written only in the twelfth century and is considered partly mythological but nevertheless widely used by historians as the only written source discussing the origins of Kyivan Rus’.
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Plokhy (2015, p. 44).
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Thus, for example, Havrylyshyn and Srzentic (2015) analyse in detail the growth of the trading economy of Ragusa, widely considered as the main rival to Venice in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.
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The locus classicus in the economics literature discussing this boom and the rise of grain prices is Allen (2001).
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Plokhy (2015, p. 69).
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Velychenko (1991, pp. 153–154) states: “there are fifteen known instances of shipments of grain sent via Gdansk … on the basis of such a small body of empirical evidence it is impossible to determine if [this] was a normal pattern of trade.”
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Subtelny (1988, p. 142).
- 8.
Subtelny (1999, p. 80. Table 1). This does not give data on the steppe lands south and east of the Kyiv region, but these were at the time very little populated.
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Subtelny (1999, pp.139–141) lists fragmentary numbers for these areas.
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Subtelny (1999, p. 172).
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Plokhy (2015, p. 65).
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The exploitative nature of the colonial period is explored by Krawchenko (1991); Spechler (1991) makes a partial counterargument that Ukraine did in fact benefit a great deal from the expansion of the empire, certainly in the industrialization process from 1860 onwards.
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Subtelny (1999, pp. 164–165).
- 15.
Subtelny (1999, Chapter 10) provides an extensive discussion of the post-Pereyaslav period of the decline of the Cossack state and the colonization of Ukrainian territories.
- 16.
Subtelny (1999, p. 235).
- 17.
Perkovsky and Pirozhkov (1993, p. 148).
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Havrylyshyn, O. (2017). Nature of the Economy before Independence. In: The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine. Studies in Economic Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57690-3_2
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