The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation

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Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents Illustrations Preface to the Fourth Edition Chronology 1 Contesting National Origins: Lays of Ancient Rus The Lay of Ihor’s Host (1187)1 Theories of Unity Theories of Difference Kulturkampf? The Fall of Rus Conclusions 2 The Armies of Gog and Magog: Myths of Ukrainian Antiquity Japheth’s Seed The Trypillians The Horsemen of Herodotus Sarmatians, Roxolanians, Rus Christianisation Paganism and Neo-Paganism Attila the Ukrainian Conclusions 3 Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Between Poland and Russia Byzantium or Rome? Religion and Identity A Lithuanian Rus? Options under Poland Options in the North The Ruthenian Revival Conclusions 4 The Cossacks: Defenders of the Wild Field, Defenders of the Faith Free Men, Wild Field The Khmelnytskyi Revolt Roxolania Coda Cultural Europe Conclusions 5 Ukraine, Russia and Rossiia Ukrainians and Scots Building the Russian Nation Russian Images of Ukraine Ukrainian Versions: Language and Identity Gogol Shevchenko and the Cossack Myth Young Ukraine Slavophilia Conclusions 6 The Habsburg Alternative Rusyns, Austrians or Poles? The Tyrol of the East Moscowphiles and Ukrainophiles The Mythic Structure of Galician Ukrainophilism Transcarpathia: ‘Over’ or ‘Under’ the Carpathians? Bukovyna: Gateway to the Carpathians Other Alternatives: The Ukrainian Diasporas Conclusions 7 The Twentieth Century: Peasants into Ukrainians? Bobrinskii’s Galician Project The Populist Project Peasants and Pitchforks, Intellectuals and Inorodtsy Skoropadskyi’s Project The West Ukrainian Project West Ukraine between the Wars: Ethnonationalism Refined Peasants into Ukrainians: Ukrainian Modernism Peasants into Soviets Ukraine’s Split Personality Conclusions 8 Independence: Gained or Gifted? The 1960s: A Prelude or a Coda? Rukh A Minority Faith Ukrainian Communism: National and Soviet The Centre That Could Not Hold ‘What, Even the Donbass Voted Yes?’ Conclusions 9 Politics: Developing the Rules of the Game The Right’s ‘Grand Bargain’ The Right Breaks Up Leonid Kravchuk’s Dance of the Seven Veils Ukraine’s Missing Liberals Ukraine’s Resurgent Left Leonid Kuchma: The Wrong Mandate Kompromat The 1999 Election And With One Bound He Was Free? Conclusions 10 Imagining Ukrainians:One Ukraine or Many? Ethnos or Lingos? A ‘Post-Colonial’ Ukraine? Russian Ukraine The ‘Other Ukraine’ Boundaries Still Blurred Jackdaw Nationalism Sites and Symbols of Identity Art and Identity: Modernism or Post-Modernism? Conclusions 11 Angels and Pins: Ukrainian Religion The Division of the Faiths In Search of a National Church The ‘One True Church’ The Persistent Autocephalous The Greek Catholics: Between Rus and Rome The Chimera of Church Unity Other Gods, Other Voices Conclusions 12 The IMF’s Red Pencil: Ukraine’s Economic Groping towards an Economic Policy Blat and the State Creating a National Economy: Crony Capitalism in Ukraine Hubris, Nemesis? Energy Geopolitics: A New Silk Road? Conclusions 13 Imagining Ukraine: Towards a Theory of Ukrainian Geopolitics Ukrainian Visions Redefining Central Europe Engaging Europe: Myth and Reality A Euro-Atlantic Ukraine? Ukrainian Eurasia Turkey: A Key Missing Piece? Russia Imagining Ukraine: Nationalist Visions Russia Imagining Ukraine: Moderate Voices Ukraine Imagining Russia Conclusions 14 The Orange Revolution and its Aftermath The Gongadze Scandal, 2000–1 Economic Recovery The 2002 Elections The Orange Revolution Don’t Cry for Me Ukraïna: Yuliia and Viktor – Evitaand Perón? The First Orange Government The 2006 Elections: The Return of Yanukovych 2007: Another Year, Another Crisis. The Return of Tymoshenko The Georgia Crisis The January 2009 Gas Crisis Towards the Next Election 15 Yanukovych’s Disastrous Presidency: Another Attempt at Revolution Ends in War Yanukovych as President Yanukovych Retreats to Mezhyhyriia The 2012 Rada Elections Ukraine and Europe The Euromaidan Russia Invades The New Ukraine Rebooting the Political System Challenges Ahead Bibliographical Essay Notes Index