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The Ukrainians - Wilson, Andrew - Yale University Press
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May 2002
416 p., 5 x 7 3/4
40 b/w + 28 color illus. + 6 maps
ISBN: 9780300093094
ISBN-10: 0300093098
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Paper
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Political Science
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The UkrainiansUnexpected Nation; Second Edition
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This book is the most acute, informed, and insightful account of Ukraine and its people available today. Andrew Wilson focuses on the complex relations between Ukraine and Russia and explains the different versions of the past propagated by Ukrainians and Russians. He also examines the continuing debates over identity, culture, and religion in Ukraine since its independence in 1991. For this new edition, Wilson has brought the text fully up to date to include coverage of the Yushchenko government and the “Gongadze affair.”
“In this excellent guide, Wilson charts the history of Ukrainian nationalism over the centuries and examines the ways in which Ukrainians have understood their culture, myths, history, and politics as specifically Ukrainian. Wilson has succeeded admirably in providing a detailed and judicious study of the current ideas that make up Ukrainian national identity.”—Virginia Quarterly Review
“A lively, detailed, and eminently sensible exploration of who the Ukrainians are and why they are important . . . required reading for anyone with a serious interest in Eastern Europe.”—Anna Reid, Literary Review
“[A] sweeping introductory examination of Ukrainian identity and history. . . . An exceptional history, the kind that supplies not pat answers but food for thought within a lush context of documented and mythological past.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Andrew Wilson is senior lecturer in Ukrainian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London.
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