Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Preface -- Quo Vadis Ukrainian History? -- COSSACK STOCK -- Placing Ukraine on the Map of Europe -- Russia and Ukraine: Did They Reunite in 1654? -- Hadiach 1658: The Origins of a Myth -- The Return of Ivan Mazepa -- The Red Century -- How Russian Was the Russian Revolution? -- Killing by Hunger -- Mapping the Great Famine -- The Call of Blood -- The Battle for Eastern Europe -- The American Dream -- FAREWELL TO THE EMPIRE -- The Soviet Collapse -- Chornobyl -- Truth in Our Times -- The Empire Strikes Back -- When Stalin Lost His Head -- Goodbye Lenin! -- EUROPEAN HORIZONS -- The Russian Question -- The Quest for Europe -- The New Eastern Europe -- Reimagining the Continent -- Notes -- Index.

The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present further analysis of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's relations with Russia and the West, the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of Chernobyl, and Ukraine's contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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