»[This] is a book like none other. Bold in shattering old preconceptions, sharp in analytical observations, and expertly written, it represents a long-anticipated and ground-breaking intellectual endeavor explaining Ukraine in its full complexity.«

»[This book] will interest anyone seeking basic knowledge about the country, as well as students of eastern European history more generally and senior scholars seeking to broaden their understanding of Ukrainian history and culture.«

»Der Band Ist allen zu empfehlen, die sich für die ukrainische Geschichte und Gegenwart interessieren und schon einige gesicherte Grundkenntnisse besitzen.«

»The thought-provoking contributions in this volume will clarify some of the unfamiliar pages of Ukrainian history and identity. They shed light on the origins of the complex identity of Ukraine, its imperial past, the contradictions of the interwar Soviet period, and the present, showing that modern war is not accidental or caused by the sick imagination of one person. The reader has the opportunity to see in the actions of the Russian aggressor a kind of attempt to reconstruct the Soviet period of nation-building in Ukraine during the interwar period, to understand the reaction of the Ukrainian people as another attempt to protect its independence and freedom.«

»There is no other comparable publication on Ukraine with this specific methodological approach. Ukraine, its history and present, has to be (re)introduced to anglophone Non-Ukrainians – and this not only in the light of the ongoing Russian war of aggression against this largest country of Europe but with regard to Ukraine as a sui generis case of European-type statehood and national identity. Each of the three sections is divided into ›primary sources‹, ›conversation pieces‹ and ›analytical articles‹. A particular strength are the ›conversation pieces‹ in the three section is the didactic value of the book. This makes it also an excellent textbook for highschool and university teaching.«

»›Ukraine’s Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited‹ is a timely, well-researched, and thoughtfully organized collection indispensable in the modern-day discussion on Ukraine, both in and outside academia.«

“This book is highly recommended to anyone interested in Ukraine’s history and present day who already has a solid grounding in the subject.« (translated from German)

Olena Palko is an assistant professor at Universität Basel. She was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia in 2017 and previously held a position of the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her first book, Making Ukraine Soviet. Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) was awarded the Prize for the Best Book in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture (2019-20) from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. Her research interests lie in the field of early Soviet cultural history and the interwar history of Eastern Europe.
Manuel Férez Gil is a doctoral student at the University Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile and has taught classes and courses on the Middle East and the Caucasus at various universities in Mexico and Chile. His areas of research are the ethnic and religious minorities of the Middle East and the Caucasus. Previously, he coordinated the Jean Monnet Chair in European studies at the International University of Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Illustrations 13
Timeline of Ukrainian History 17
Foreword. Where is Ukraine? 21
Introduction. Ukraine's Many Faces 29
Ukrainian Draft Treaty of 1654 41
To My Fellow-Countrymen, In Ukraine and Not in Ukraine, Living, Dead and as Yet Unborn 45
Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Entry to Kyiv in 1649 (1912) 51
Revealing Pan-Slavic Russian Imperialism 55
Ukrainian History through Literature 61
Between East and West: Understanding Early Modern Ukraine 73
Between Empires: Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century 83
Jews in Habsburg Galicia: Challenges of Modernity 91
Grain, Coal, and Gas. Ukraine's Economy since the Eighteenth Century 101
Ukrainian Declaration of Independence (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
Ukraine: Between Empires and National Self- Determination 135
The Ukrainian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, and the Inertia of Empire 149
The Territory of Ukraine and Its History 165
Constructing Ethnic Identities in Early Soviet Ukraine 175
Street Children in Early Soviet Odesa 191
Selfhood and Statehood in Interwar Ukraine: Inventing the "New Man" 205
Stalinism and The Holodomor 221
Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Search of Ancestry, Belonging, and Identity 233
Crimean Tatars: Claiming the Homeland 247
Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (1990) 267
Home is still possible there... 273
Matvey Vaisberg, The Wall [Stina] (2014) 275
Between the Holodomor and Euromaidan: In Search of Contemporary Ukrainian National Identity 279
Ukraine: Between National Security and the Rule of Law 291
Society in Turbulent Times: The Impact of War on Ukraine 299
Competing Identities of Ukraine's Russian Speakers 315
The Donbas: A Region and a Myth 331
Towards Gender Equality in the Ukrainian Society 345
The Art of Misunderstanding 357
The Territory Resists the Map 365
Integrating Scholarship on Ukraine into Classroom Syllabi 375
Contributing Authors 393