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| | The Khmelnytsky Insurrection (from Ukraine) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can ... (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Beginning with a seemingly typical Cossack revolt, under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukraine was quickly engulfed in an unprecedented war and revolution. |
 | | Khmelnytsky was a petty nobleman and Cossack officer who, unable to obtain justice for wrongs suffered at Polish hands, fled to the Sich in late 1647 and was soon elected hetman. |
 | | Khmelnytsky again cast about for new alliances and coalitions involving Sweden, Transylvania, Brandenburg, Moldavia, and Wallachia, and there were indications that the hetman planned to sever the Muscovite connection when he died in 1657. |
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