The gates of Europe a history of Ukraine
"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...
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New York, NY :
Basic Books,
[2021]
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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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.
