Mykhailo Hrushevsky's History of Ukraine-Rus, ' Volume 8: The Cossack
Age, 1626-1650 deals with the period when the Cossacks' emergence as a
political power and the Khmelnytsky Uprising made Ukraine a focal point
in European and Near Eastern affairs. Based on an exhaustive examination
of the sources and scholarly literature, Hrushevsky's volume 8 stands as
the most comprehensive account of this dramatic period in Ukrainian
history. Ukraine's central role in the international politics of the
time makes the volume important to specialists and students of East
European, Central European, Ottoman, Russian, and Jewish history, as
well as to those studying revolution and state building in early modern
Europe. For her work in translating volume 8 Marta Daria Olynyk was
awarded the 2004 AAUS Translation Prize. This volume was translated by
Marta Daria Olynyk and edited by Frank E. Sysyn (editor in chief) with
the assistance of Myroslav Yurkevich.