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"As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today's crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil... Full description
Table of Contents:
- I.
- ON THE PONTIC FRONTIER
- Chapter 1.
- The edge of the world
- Chapter 2.
- The advent of the Slavs
- Chapter 3.
- Vikings on the Dnieper
- Chapter 4.
- Byzantium North
- Chapter 5.
- The keys to Kyiv
- Chapter 6.
- Pax Mongolica
- II.
- EAST MEETS WEST
- Chapter 7.
- The making of Ukraine
- Chapter 8.
- The Cossacks
- Chapter 9.
- Eastern reformations
- Chapter 10.
- The Great Revolt
- Chapter 11.
- The partitions
- Chapter 12.
- The verdict of Poltava
- III.
- BETWEEN THE EMPIRES
- Chapter 13.
- The new frontiers
- Chapter 14.
- The books of the genesis
- Chapter 15.
- The porous border
- Chapter 16.
- On the move
- Chapter 17.
- The unfinished revolution
- IV.
- THE WARS OF THE WORLD
- Chapter 18.
- The birth of a nation
- Chapter 19.
- A shattered dream
- Chapter 20.
- Communism and Nationalism
- Chapter 21.
- Stalin's fortress
- Chapter 22.
- Hitler's Lebensraum
- 23.
- The victors
- V.
- THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE
- Chapter 24.
- The Second Soviet Republic
- Chapter 25.
- Good bye, Lenin!
- Chapter 26.
- The Independence Square
- Chapter 27.
- The price of freedom
- Chapter 28.
- A new dawn
- Epilogue:
- The meanings of history
- Historical timeline
- Who's who in Ukrainian history
- Glossary.