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Koliyivshchyna

Years: 1768 - 1769

Koliyivshchyna is a major haidamaka rebellion that breaks out in Right-bank Ukraine in June 1768,[ caused by the social and national-religious oppression of Ukrainians by the Polish administration and nobility.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)