History of Ukraine-Rus' Volume 2
2021 Grand Prix for Excellence in Translation
History of Ukraine-Rus' Volume 2
Mykhailo Hrushevsky – Author
Ian Press – Translator
Tania Plawuszczak-Stech – Co-translator and Managing Editor
CIUS Press – Publisher
“The Grand Prix was awarded not only as an acknowledgement of the volume’s excellence in translation, but also in recognition of its exceptional importance in making Hrushevsky's magnum opus accessible to a global audience.”
Hrushevsky’s History of Ukraine-Rus’ represented a seismic break from the Russocentric paradigm that had previously driven historiography. Russian imperial domination of political history had sought to entrench a narrative advocating a direct continuity between Rus' and the Suzdalia-Muscovy-Russian Empire — an interpretation of medieval history that, for decades, Western scholarship had fully embraced. The content of Hrushevsky’s volume 2—especially its three chapters of political history covering the period from 1015 to 1252—was central to contesting the imperial legend that Russia was the direct political successor of the Kyivan-Rus’ state — a myth that Russia’s present-day political leadership continues to perpetuate. The fact that this monumental history is now available in English, guarantees that this historically significant work will forever be accessible to a worldwide scholarly audience.
