Khan's Ukraine. Vladyslav Hrybovskyi

The uncompromising opposition of Ukrainians to the revanchist aggression of Russian neo-imperialism intensifies the demand for an understanding of the past, devoid of excessive determinism in the explanation of historical phenomena.

This book is far from the overly ambitious intention to explain the present through history or, conversely, to arbitrarily allow retrospective projections into the past. The author of the book considered his task to capture the specifics of the history of one of the areas of the Ukrainian steppe borderland, where such a peculiar phenomenon as Khan's Ukraine arose. Since ancient times, that region has been a motley cross-strip of settlements of ancient Slavic and Turkic peoples. The historical paths of Ukrainians, Moldovans, Lithuanians, Turks, Crimean Tatars, Poles, Nogais, Armenians, Jews, Lithuanian Tatars, Bulgarians and Russian Old Believers intersected there. They all competed among themselves in their own way for the right to live on that land and for whose state would own it.