Ukraine's Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited (New Europes Book 1)

Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present. Each document is followed by an essay written by an expert on the period, and a conversational piece touching on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. In this ground-breaking collection, Ukraine's history is sensitively accounted for by scholars inviting the readers to revisit the country's history and culture. With a foreword by Olesya Khromeychuk. Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Illustrations Timeline of Ukrainian History Foreword. Where is Ukraine? Introduction. Ukraine’s Many Faces Notes I. Modernity at the Crossroads of Empires Primary Sources Ukrainian Draft Treaty of 1654 To My Fellow‐Countrymen, In Ukraine and Not in Ukraine, Living, Dead and as Yet Unborn Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Entry to Kyiv in 1649 (1912) Conversation Pieces Revealing Pan‐Slavic Russian Imperialism Works Cited Ukrainian History through Literature Works Cited Analytical Articles Between East and West: Understanding Early Modern Ukraine Selected Bibliography Between Empires: Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century Selected Bibliography Jews in Habsburg Galicia: Challenges of Modernity Economic Life and Opportunities Mass Migration The Social Transformation of Judaism in Galicia Jews in the Galician Political Context The Development of Modern Jewish Culture The End of Galicia Selected Bibliography Grain, Coal, and Gas. Ukraine’s Economy since the Eighteenth Century Imperialism and Economy Grain Coal Natural Gas Conclusion and Afterthoughts Notes Selected Bibliography II. Ukrainian Selfhood in the Soviet Era Primary Sources Ukrainian Declaration of Independence (1918) Letter from the Collective Farmer Mykola Reva to Joseph Stalin about the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine Fedir Krychevsky, Life Triptych (1925) Conversation Pieces Ukraine: Between Empires and National Self‐Determination Works Cited Analytical Articles The Ukrainian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, and the Inertia of Empire Imagining a Ukrainian National Space in the 19th Century The February Revolution: Defining the Boundaries of the Nation Bolshevik Mental Geographies and the Challenge of the National Struggle Soviet Ukraine: An Antidote to Nationalism or a Reactionary Fantasy? Did Lenin Create Ukraine? Notes Selected Bibliography The Territory of Ukraine and Its History Border Agreements in the Back Rooms of the Party andStateLeadership Western Expansion in the Course of the Second World War Crimea and its Historical Belonging Notes Selected Bibliography Constructing Ethnic Identities in Early Soviet Ukraine The Soviet Minorities Experiment The Criteria for Ethnicity Motives Behind Ethnic Identification Unravelling the Soviet Dilemma Notes Selected Bibliography Street Children in Early Soviet Odesa Genesis Multiple Structural Poses Teetering Forward Overlapping Competencies The Promise of Collectivism Notes Selected Bibliography Selfhood and Statehood in Interwar Ukraine: Inventing the “New Man” Spaces Practices Memory Notes Selected Bibliography Stalinism and The Holodomor Notes Selected Bibliography Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Search of Ancestry, Belonging, and Identity Brief Overview of Historical Context “Homecoming” Pilgrimage as a Means of Forging Identity Notes Selected Bibliography Crimean Tatars: Claiming the Homeland Deportation A Point of no Return? Return Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography III. Sovereignty Regained: Ukraine in the Post‐Soviet Age Primary Sources Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (1990) Kyiv, July 16, 1990 I. Self‐Determination of the Ukrainian Nation II. Rule of the People III. State Power IV. Citizenship of the Ukrainian SSR V. Territorial Supremacy VI. Economic Independence VII. Environmental Safety VIII. Cultural Development IX. External and Internal Security X. International Relations Home is still possible there... Matvey Vaisberg, The Wall [Stina] (2014) Conversation Pieces Between the Holodomor and Euromaidan: In Search of Contemporary Ukrainian National Identity Works cited Ukraine: Between National Security and the Rule of Law Works cited Analytical Articles Society in Turbulent Times: The Impact of War on Ukraine Ukrainian Ambivalence The Flickering War Nation‐Building to the Sound of Sirens Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Competing Identities of Ukraine’s Russian Speakers Making Sense of People Speaking Russian Competing Identifications of Russian‐Speakers Explaining the Low Salience of Russian‐Speaking Identity Acknowledgment Notes Selected Bibliography The Donbas: A Region and a Myth 1. Territory and History 2. Languages and Identity 3. Separatism and Beyond 4. Re‐Imagining Ukrainian Donbas Notes Selected Bibliography Towards Gender Equality in the Ukrainian Society The Women's Movement in Ukraine: A Brief History of Visibility Ukraine's International and National Obligations toEnsureGenderEquality Successes of the Ukrainian Women's Feminist Movement inBuildingGenderEquality Selected Bibliography The Art of Misunderstanding Notes Selected Bibliography The Territory Resists the Map Notes Selected Bibliography Afterword. Let Ukraine Speak Integrating Scholarship on Ukraine into Classroom Syllabi Where to Begin? Putting Ukraine on Students’ Mental Maps General Historical Overviews of Ukraine Understanding Russia’s War on Ukraine in Historical andContemporaryPerspective Highlighting 20th Century Ukraine in European History Courses Ukraine’s 1917 and the Formation of the Soviet Union The Interwar Period WWII, the German Occupation, and the Holocaust Postwar Ukraine and Chornobyl Independence Understanding 21st Century Ukraine Further Resources in Lieu of a Conclusion Notes Bibliography Contributing Authors