Description
The hromada, the self-governing community, followed through Ukraine’s history in thirteen chapters, from the village community and the viche of Rus’ to the decentralization reform and the hromadas at war.
Thirteen chapters: the village community and the viche of Rus’, the kopa and the brotherhoods, the Cossack rada, the village assembly under serfdom, the Hromada societies, the reading rooms and co-operatives, the councils of 1917, collectivization, the years underground, the decentralization reform and the hromadas at war. Each chapter asks what the hromada was, what power took from it, and what people kept.
- Women of the hromada, and other peoples’ own forms of self-rule, in every chapter
- The thirty-seven HROMADA pillars in five streams
- 248 pages, portrait, large accessible type
Companion to What People Kept: A People’s History of Ukraine.
Teaching it or reviewing it? Instructors, scholars, librarians and community organizations can request a free review copy, and every student in a course that adopts the book receives it free. Write to sasha@drokacademy.ca.
This is the first edition. Corrections, additions and family stories are welcome at sasha@drokacademy.ca, and the second edition will carry them.
About the author
Dr. Oleksandr Kondrashov, PhD, MSW, MEd, Founder, DROKACADEMY. Born in Lviv, Ukraine, and in Canada since 2004, he has taught over 7,000 students across five Canadian universities. DROKACADEMY is a healing and writing space, and its motto guides these books: Love. Care. Share.
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