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Ukraineby Taras Kuzio
Routledge 1998; US$ 218.00This book explores the transformation of Soviet Ukraine into an independent state. It finds that state building is an integral part of the transition process, as much as democratization and the establishment of a market economy. more...
The Ukrainian Diasporaby Vic Satzewich
Routledge 2002; US$ 190.00The author looks at the ways the Ukranian Diaspora has retained its identity, at the different factions within it and its response to the war crimes trials of the 1980s. more...
Ukraine's Foreign and Security Policy 1991-2000by Roman Wolczuk
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 175.00This book analyses Ukraine's relations with each of its neighbours in the 1990s and the degree to which these relations fitted into Ukraine's broad objective of reorienting its key political ties from East to West. more...
Together and Apart in Brzezanyby Shimon Redlich
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 23.95"... by reconstructing the history/experience of Brzezany in Jewish, Ukrainian, and Polish memories [Redlich] has produced a beautiful parallel narrative of a world that was lost three times over.... a truly wonderful achievement." -- Jan T. Gross, author of Neighbors Shimon Redlich draws on the historical record, his own childhood memories, and interviews with Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians who lived in the small eastern Polish town of Brzezany to construct this account of the changing relationships among the town's three ethnic groups before, during, and after World War II. He details the history of Brzezany from the prewar ... more...
Studien zur Geschichte und Archäologie des byzantinischen Chersonby Alla I. Romancuk; Heinz Heinen; Marko Kiessel; Claudia von Behren
BRILL 2005; US$ 269.00The book is the first publication in English of the excavation of Byzantine Cherson (7th-14th cents.). It offers a comprehensive study of the topography of the city, its material culture, everyday life, architecture, craft production, and religious beliefs. It places Cherson within the overall history of the Byzantine Empire, its periphery and Black Sea-Mediterranean trade. more...
Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700by Brian Davies
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 39.95This crucial period in Russia's history has been neglected by historians, but Brian L. Davies's study provides an essential insight into the emergence of Russia as a great power. more...
Ukraineby T. Kuzio
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 1999; US$ 85.00The Ukrainian vote for independence in December 1991 effectively ended the existence of the Soviet Union, and propelled one of Europe's submerged nations on to the world stage. The study of nationalities and nationalism in the former Soviet Union is incomplete without a survey of developments in the second largest republic and one of the most important states to have emerged from the ruins of the USSR in an unstable and under-researched region of Europe. Ukraine, a country the size of France in land and population, will play an increasingly important role in regional and world affairs as a new military and potential economic power. This book is the first to survey the entire range of developments in the fields of politics, society, independent... more...
Ukraineby Catherine W. Cooper; Zoran Pavlovic; Charles F. Gritzner
Infobase Publishing 2006; US$ 30.00In turn ruled by the Golden Horde in the 13th century, the Grand Principality of Lithuania and Poland, then Russia and the Soviet Union, Ukraine's people strive to reclaim their identity. With a full-color format, essential facts and history at a glance, bibliography, and other study features, this work offers an introduction to this nation. more...
Culture and Customs of Ukraineby Oksana Buranbaeva; Adriana Helbig; Vanja Mladineo
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 70.00Ukraine's tumultuous history has left it standing on unstable ground, wrought with the devastation of the 20th Century's wars, famines, and other struggles. Today, life in Ukraine is moving forward, stepping out of the shadows of Communism and into a modern, urban, and multicultural light, finally gaining for itself a sense of national identity. Now a cultural hotspot that serves as a crossroads between Europe and Asia, Ukraine's traditions of yesterday are evolving into today's daily life and customs. High school and undergraduate students will have the opportunity to delve into Ukraine's modern society by looking at its religious practices, language conflicts, gender issues, education policies, and media censorship struggles,... more...
Ukrainian Foreign and Security Policyby Jennifer D.P. Moroney; Taras Kuzio; Mikhail Molchanov
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 147.00A key country for stability and security in Europe, Ukraine is struggling to create consistent foreign and security policies. Political alliances, identity struggles, economic goals, and geopolitical position all pull this newly emergent state in different and often conflicting directions. Due to its dependencies on both the West and Russia, Ukraine's foreign policy is in a state of flux. To ensure stability in this newly-emergent state, the contributors to this volume argue that the West should be more assertive in offering an unambiguous developmental perspective, supporting democracy and the rule of law, and offer E.U. affiliation in the near future.||International Relations theory and Ukraine's foreign policy are examined in the... more...