The Ukrainians : : Unexpected Nation
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Call Number: 947.7 Wi, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / Europe / Ukraine
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch
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Previous edition: 2009.
Contesting national origins : lays of ancient Rus -- The armies of Gog and Magog : myths of Ukrainian antiquity -- Neither fish nor fowl : between Poland and Russia -- The Cossacks : defenders of the wild field, defenders of the faith -- Ukraine, Russia and Rossiia -- The Habsburg alternative -- The twentieth century : peasants into Ukrainians? -- Independence : gained or gifted? -- Politics : developing the rules of the game -- Imagining Ukrainians : one Ukraine or many? -- Angels and pins : Ukrainian religion -- The IMF's red pencil : Ukraine's economic black hole -- Imagining Ukraine : towards a theory of Ukrainian geopolitics -- The Orange Revolution and its aftermath -- Yanukovych's disastrous presidency : another attempt at revolution ends in war.
"This is the most acute, informed and up-to-date account of Ukraine and its people. In this fourth edition Andrew Wilson refreshes his classic work with a new chapter covering Yanukovych's presidency, the uprising on the Kiev Maidan, the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine and the Crimea, the rise of Petro Poroshenko, and the challenges ahead."--Page 4 of cover.
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PUBLISHED
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: xviii, 410 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300217254
0300217250
SUBJECTS
Nationalism -- Ukraine.
Ukraine -- History.
Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 1991-