New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2009.

3rd ed.

xviii, 392 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

Previous ed. published: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-347) and index.

Contesting national origins : Lays of ancient Rus -- The armies of God and Magog : myths of Ukrainian antiquity -- Neither fish nor fowl : between Poland and Russia -- The Cossacks : defenders of the wild field, defenders of the faity -- 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.

Nationalism -- Ukraine.

Ukraine -- History.

Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 1991-

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