About This Issue

This special volume began as a project to publish the papers given at a panel on relations among Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians from the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries, sponsored by the Jacyk Centre at the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies at Harrogate, England, on 26 July 1990. When additional papers were received, it became feasible to devote a double issue of the journal to early modern Ukraine.

In This Issue

Author	Page	Title
Zenon E. Kohut	3	Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century: An Agenda for the Study of Politics
Iaroslav Isaievych	17	Early Modern Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine: Culture and Cultural Relations
Mikhail Dmitriev	29	The Religious Programme of the Union of Brest in the Context of the Counter-Reformation in Eastern Europe
Ihor Sevcenko	45	Religious Polemical Literature in the Ukrainian and Belarusian Lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Antoni Mironowicz	59	Orthodox Centres and Organizations in Polachia from the Mid-Sixteenth through the Seventeenth Century
David A. Frick	67	Zyzanij and Smotryc'kyj (Moscow, Constantinople, and Kiev): Episodes in Cross-Cultural Misunderstanding
Iryna Voronchyk	95	Do pytannia pro sotsialno-ekonomichne stanovyshche selianstva Volyni v pershyi polovyni XVII st.
Shmuel Ettinger	107	The Legal and Social Status of the Jews of Ukraine from the Fifteenth Century to the Cossack Uprising of 1648
Frank E. Sysyn	141	The Khmelnytsky Uprising and Ukrainian Nation-Building
Serhii Plokhy	171	The Symbol of Little Russia: The Pokrova Icon and Early Modern Ukrainian Political Ideology
Natalia Pylypiuk	189	Poety as Milk: A Seventeenth-Century Metaphor and its Pedagogical Context
Peter Rolland	205
Dushan Bernadsky	217	Ex abundantia enim cordis os loquitor: Dymytrij Tuptalo's Ukrainian Sermon's and the Kievan Rhetorical Model
Contributors	245