| Description |
xviii, 366 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [318]-323) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Contesting national origins : lays of ancient Rus -- 2. The armies of Gog and Magog : myths of Ukrainian antiquity -- 3. Neither fish nor fowl : between Poland and Russia -- 4. The Cossacks : defenders of the wild field, defenders of the faith -- 5. Ukraine, Russia and Rossiia -- 6. The Habsburg alternative -- 7. The twentieth century : peasants into Ukrainians? -- 8. Independence : gained or gifted -- 9. Politics : developing the rules of the game -- 10. Imagining Ukrainians : one Ukraine or many? -- 11. Angels and pins : Ukrainian religion -- 12. The IMF's red pencil : Ukraine's economic black hole -- 13. Imagining Ukraine : towards a theory of Ukrainian geopolitics. |
| Subject |
Ukraine -- History.
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| ISBN |
0300083556 cloth |
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