5. Heroes and Villains in the Historical Imagination

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Chronology of Major Events Associated with the Khmelnytsky Uprising and the Depiction of Bohdan Khmelnytsky xiii
6. A Brief Note on Orthography and Transliteration xx
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I. The Literary Aftermath of 1648
9. 1. A Portrait in Ambivalence 23
10. 2. “A Man Worthy of the Name Hetman” 36
11. 3. A Reevaluation of the “Khmelnytsky Factor” 47
12. Part II. Khmelnytsky and Romanticism
13. 4. Apotheosis, Rejection, and Transference 63
14. 5. Heroes and Villains in the Historical Imagination 89
15. 6. The Image of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Polish Romanticism and Its Post-Romantic Reflex 110
16. Part III. Khmelnytsky and the Reinvention of National Traditions
17. 7. The Heirs of Tulʹchyn 127
18. 8. Hanukkah Cossack Style 139
19. 9. The Cult of Strength 153
20. Part IV. Khmelnytsky in Twentieth-Century Mythologies
21. 10. Jews and Soviet Remythologization of the Ukrainian Hetman 169
22. 11. On the Other Side of Despair 182
23. 12. Khmelnytsky in Motion 197
24. Afterword 219
25. Notes 227
26. Bibliography of Source Texts on the Khmelnytsky Uprisings 271
27. Contributors 283
28. Index 285