Author:
Wilson, Andrew, 1961- author.
Edition Statement:Fourth edition
ImprintNew Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2015.
Imprint2015
Descriptionxviii, 410 pages, 24unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Note:Previous edition: 2009
Note: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 -- 14. The Orange Revolution and its aftermath -- 15. Yanukovych's disastrous presidency: another attempt at revolution ends in war.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-398) and index.
Note:"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."--Back cover
