Original Russian version of this article first appeared as an Introduction in I. Gerasimov, S. Glebov, A. Kaplunovski, M. Mogilner, A. Semyonov (Eds.). Novaia imperskaia istoriia postsovetskogo prostranstva. Kazan, 2004. Pp. 7-29 (for more information on the book please visit www.abimperio.net).
I gratefully acknowledge the generous and timely help of Dr. Stepan Zakharkin from the Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv). My special thanks to Victoria Zahrobsky from the Northwestern University Interlibrary Loan Department and to the staff of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Slavic Division and of the Phillips Reading Room at Widener Library at Harvard University. Special thanks to the staff of the Huliai-pole Historical Museum, the Chernihiv Historical Museum, and the Department of Manuscripts of the Shevchenko Institute of Literature (Kyiv).
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