The Khmelnytsky Uprising and the Zaporizhian Hetmanate

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In 1648 the Ukrainian Cossacks of the Zaporizhian Host (also known as the Zaporozhian Host), led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky (aka Khmel'nits'kyi or Chmielnicki), rose up against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, founding the first internationally recognized Ukrainian state, the Zaporizhian Hetmanate or Rus' State (Hosudarstvo rosiiske). This video is a part of #ProjectUkraine, a HistoryTube collaboration aimed at raising awareness of Ukrainian History and raising funds for Ukraine relief efforts. We have partnered up with the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre in Kyiv, which was bombed by the Russian troops at the start of the invasion. Today, the foundation has transformed its projects, refocusing its resources and efforts on purchasing and delivering humanitarian aid to civilians, and evacuating people from combat zones. In the first week of April, the centre provided over 7000 food baskets to patients and doctors at Kyiv hospitals, to bomb shelters in the Kyiv underground, as well as to people with disabilities and elderly people who cannot leave their homes. They also provided targeted assistance to 3354 people, delivering specific medications, food and hygiene products on individual requests. We hope that viewers would consider donating to this noble cause and help with the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.


0:00 #Project Ukraine Intro
1:14 Topic Introduction
1:53 Background
2:57 The Cossacks
5:43 The Spark
8:02 The Rebellion
11:06 Declaration of Independence
12:42 The Russian Alliance
15:34 The Russo-Polish War and the Ruin
18:58 Aftermath
20:47 Citations


Corrections:
07:07 I decided while in the process of recording to pronounce Warsaw based on how Polish spelling is usually pronounced... without realizing that "Warsaw" isn't actually a Polish spelling at all. The city is called Warszawa in Polish, pronounced "Var-Shah-Vah".
15:42 The EAST Bank, not the West Bank. I got mixed up somewhere along the line because of how maps are oriented with the West on the Left and the East on the Right, but the designations of Left Bank and Right Bank are from the perspective of someone looking down the Dnieper.
18:41 Once again, I got mixed up about which side was left, flip these: Yuri got pushed to the Right Bank (West), while the Left Bank (East) fell under Russian authority.