Contents
Illustrations......................................................................... 13
TimelineofUkrainianHistory................................................ 17
Foreword.
Where is Ukraine?How a Western Outlook Perpetuates Myths about Europe's Largest Country
Olesya Khromeychuk......................................................................................................... 21
Introduction. Ukraine's Many Faces
Olena Palko and Manuel Ferez Gil..................................................................................... 29
I. Modernity at the Crossroads of Empires
Primary Sources
Ukrainian Draft Treaty of 1654
A Byelorussian Copy of the Articles sent by the Cossack Envoys Samoylo
Bohdanov and Pavlo Teterya on the 14th day of May, 7162 (A.D. 1654) 41
To My Fellow-Countrymen, In Ukraine and Not in Ukraine, Living, Dead and as Yet Unborn
My Friendly Epistle
Taras Shevchenko.............................................................................................................. 45
Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Entry to Kyiv in 1649 (1912)
Mykola Ivasiuk..................................................................................................................... 51
Conversation Pieces
Revealing Pan-Slavic Russian Imperialism
Ewa Thompson, in conversation with Manuel Ferez Gil...................................................... 55
Ukrainian History through Literature
Tamara Hundorova, in conversation with Manuel Ferez Gil.............................................. 61
Analytical Articles
Between East and West: Understanding Early Modern Ukraine
Oleksii Sokyrko.................................................................................................................. 73
Between Empires: Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century
Fabian Baumann...............................................................................................................
83Jews in Habsburg Galicia: Challenges of Modernity
Vladyslava Moskalets........................................................................................................ 91
Grain, Coal, and Gas. Ukraine's Economy since the Eighteenth Century
Boris Belge........................................................................................................................ 101
II. Ukrainian Selfhood in the Soviet Era
Primary Sources
Ukrainian Declaration of Independence (1918)
January 9th, 1918................................................................. 123
Letter from the Collective Farmer Mykola Reva to Joseph Stalin about the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine................................................................................ 129
Fedir Krychevsky, Life Triptych (1925).............................. 131
Conversation Pieces
Ukraine: Between Empires and National Self-Determination
Olena Palko, in conversation with Manuel Ferez Gil......................................................... 135
Analytical Articles
The Ukrainian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, and the Inertia of Empire
Hanna Perekhoda............................................................................................................. 149
The Territory of Ukraine and Its History
Stephan Rindlisbacher...................................................................................................... 165
Constructing Ethnic Identities in Early Soviet Ukraine
Olena Palko and Roman Korshuk..................................................................................... 175
Street Children in Early Soviet Odesa
Matthew D. Pauly.............................................................................................................. 191
Selfhood and Statehood in Interwar Ukraine: Inventing the "New Man”
Oksana Klymenko and Roman Liubavskyi........................................................................
205Stalinism and The Holodomor
Daria Mattingly.................................................................................................................. 221
Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Search of Ancestry,
Belonging, and Identity
Iuliia Buyskykh................................................................................................................... 233
Crimean Tatars: Claiming the Homeland
Martin-Oleksandr Kisly...................................................................................................... 247
III. Sovereignty Regained:
Ukraine in the Post-Soviet Age
Primary Sources
Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (1990)
Passed by the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.... 267
Home is still possible there...
Kateryna Kalytko............................................................................................................... 273
Matvey Vaisberg, The Wall [Stina] (2014).......................... 275
Conversation Pieces
Between the Holodomor and Euromaidan:
In Search of Contemporary Ukrainian National Identity
David Marples, in conversation with Manuel Ferez Gil...................................................... 279
Ukraine: Between National Security and the Rule of Law
Maria Popova, in conversation with Manuel Ferez Gil....................................................... 291
Analytical Articles
Society in Turbulent Times: The Impact of War on Ukraine
Anna Chebotarova............................................................................................................ 299
Competing Identities of Ukraine's Russian Speakers
Volodymyr Kulyk.............................................................................................................. 315
The Donbas: A Region and a Myth
Oleksandr Zabirko............................................................................................................. 331
Towards Gender Equality in the Ukrainian Society
Tamara Martsenyuk.......................................................................................................... 345
The Art of Misunderstanding
Kateryna Botanova.......................................................................................................... 357
The Territory Resists the Map
Geolocating Reality and Hyperreality in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Roman Horbyk.................................................................................................................. 365
Afterword. Let Ukraine Speak
Integrating Scholarship on Ukraine into Classroom Syllabi
John Vsetecka................................................................................................................... 375
Contributing Authors.......................................................... 393