Borderland : a journey through the history of Ukraine /
Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from the east, and for the next seven centuries, Ukraine was split between warring neighbors: Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Austrians, and Tata...
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New York, NY :
Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Preface to the 2015 edition
- Part One.
- 1. The New Jerusalem : Kiev
- 2. Poles and Cossacks : Kamyanets Podilsky
- 3. The Russian Sea : Donetsk and Odessa
- 4. The books of Genesis : Lviv
- 5. A meaningless fragment : Chernivtsi
- 6. The great hunger : Matussiv and Lukovytsya
- 7. The vanished nation : Ivano-Frankivsk
- 8. The wart on Russia's nose : Crimea
- 9. The empire explodes : Chernobyl
- 10. Europe or little Russia? : Ukraina
- Part Two.
- 11. The rise and fall of the Orange Revolution
- 12. The Maidan
- 13. Putin strikes back
- 14. What next?
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.