Ukraine and Russia : Representations of the Past.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Maps -- Introduction -- Part One: The Roots of Entanglement -- 1 Empire or Nation? -- 2 Incorporated Identity -- 3 Ukraine or Little Russia? -- 4 The Missing Mazepa -- Part Two: Between Class and Nation -- 5 The Historian as Nation Builder -- 6 Renegotiating the Pereiaslav Agreement -- 7 Bourgeois Revolution or Peasant War? -- 8 The People's History -- Part Three: Post-Soviet Debates -- 9 History and Territory -- 10 The City of Glory -- 11 The Ghosts of Pereiaslav -- 12 Remembering Yalta -- Part Four: The Search for a New History -- 13 The History of a Non-Historical Nation -- 14 Imagining Early Modern Ukraine -- 15 Crossing National Boundaries -- 16 Beyond Nationality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
This book makes important assertions not only about the conflicts and negotiations inherent to opposing historiographic traditions, but about ways of overcoming the limitations imposed by those traditions.