Ukraine
Subtitle: birth of a modern nation
By: Serhy Yekelchyk.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780195305456; 9780195305463
Subjects: Nationalism -- Ukraine -- History; Ukraine -- History -- 19th century; Ukraine -- History -- 20th century; Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Description: "The first Western survey of Ukrainian history to include coverage of the Orange Revolution and its aftermath, this book narrates the deliberate construction of a modern Ukrainian nation, incorporating new Ukrainian scholarship and archival revelations of the post-Communist period. Here is a history of the land where the strategic interests of Russia and the West have long clashed, with reverberations that resonate to this day."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The historical roots of modern Ukraine; title: 2. Imperial bureaucrats and nation builders; title: 3. Ukraine enters the age of mass politics; title: 4. The Ukrainian revolution; title: 5. Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s : the Ukrainization drive; title: 6. Stalinism : famine and terror; title: 7. Western Ukrainian lands between the wars : the birth of radical nationalism; title: 8. Nazi occupation and the Soviet victory; title: 9. Ukraine under Stalin's heirs; title: 10. From Chernobyl to the Soviet collapse; title: 11. Independent Ukraine