The Donbas: A Region and a Myth

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Illustrations 13
4. Timeline of Ukrainian History 17
5. Foreword. Where is Ukraine? 21
6. Introduction. Ukraine’s Many Faces 29
7. I. Modernity at the Crossroads of Empires
8. Primary Sources
9. Ukrainian Draft Treaty of 1654 41
10. To My Fellow-Countrymen, In Ukraine and Not in Ukraine, Living, Dead and as Yet Unborn 45
11. Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Entry to Kyiv in 1649 (1912) 51
12. Conversation Pieces
13. Revealing Pan-Slavic Russian Imperialism 55
14. Ukrainian History through Literature 61
15. Analytical Articles
16. Between East and West: Understanding Early Modern Ukraine 73
17. Between Empires: Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century 83
18. Jews in Habsburg Galicia: Challenges of Modernity 91
19. Grain, Coal, and Gas. Ukraine’s Economy since the Eighteenth Century 101
20. II. Ukrainian Selfhood in the Soviet Era
21. Primary Sources
22. Ukrainian Declaration of Independence (1918) 123
23. Letter from the Collective Farmer Mykola Reva to Joseph Stalin about the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine 129
24. Fedir Krychevsky, Life Triptych (1925) 131
25. Conversation Pieces
26. Ukraine: Between Empires and National Self- Determination 135
27. Analytical Articles
28. The Ukrainian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, and the Inertia of Empire 149
29. The Territory of Ukraine and Its History 165
30. Constructing Ethnic Identities in Early Soviet Ukraine 175
31. Street Children in Early Soviet Odesa 191
32. Selfhood and Statehood in Interwar Ukraine: Inventing the “New Man” 205
33. Stalinism and The Holodomor 221
34. Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Search of Ancestry, Belonging, and Identity 233
35. Crimean Tatars: Claiming the Homeland 247
36. III. Sovereignty Regained: Ukraine in the Post-Soviet Age
37. Primary Sources
38. Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (1990) 267
39. Home is still possible there... 273
40. Matvey Vaisberg, The Wall [Stina] (2014) 275
41. Conversation Pieces
42. Between the Holodomor and Euromaidan: In Search of Contemporary Ukrainian National Identity 279
43. Ukraine: Between National Security and the Rule of Law 291
44. Analytical Articles
45. Society in Turbulent Times: The Impact of War on Ukraine 299
46. Competing Identities of Ukraine’s Russian Speakers 315
47. The Donbas: A Region and a Myth 331
48. Towards Gender Equality in the Ukrainian Society 345
49. The Art of Misunderstanding 357
50. The Territory Resists the Map 365
51. Afterword. Let Ukraine Speak
52. Integrating Scholarship on Ukraine into Classroom Syllabi 375
53. Contributing Authors 393