The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (англ.)

List of Illustrations ix
Preface to the Fouth Edition xi
Chronology xv

1 Contesting National Origins: Lays of Ancient Rus 1
2 The Armies of Gog and Magog: Myths of Ukrainian Antiquity 21
3 Neither Fish nor Fowl: Between Poland and Russia 40
4 The Cossacks: Defenders of the Wild Field, Defenders of the Faith 58
5 Ukraine, Russia and Rossiia 72
6 The Habsburg Alternative 101
7 The Twentieth Century: Peasants into Ukrainians? 119
8 Independence: Gained or Gifted? 152
9 Politics: Developing the Rules of the Game 172
10 Imagining Ukrainians: One Ukraine or Many? 207
11 Angels and Pins: Ukrainian Religion 234
12 The IMF’s Red Pencil: Ukraine’s Economic Black Hole 253
13 Imagining Ukraine: Towards a Theory of Ukrainian Geopolitics 279
14 The Orange Revolution and its Aftermath 311
15 Yanukovych’s Disastrous Presidency: Another Attempt at Revolution Ends in War 342

Bibliographical Essay 359
Notes 365
Index 399