1st Edition

A Laboratory of Transnational History Ukraine and Recent Ukrainian Historiography

Edited By Georgiy Kasianov, Philipp Ther Copyright 2009
318 Pages
by Central European University Press

318 Pages
by Central European University Press

A first attempt to present an approach to Ukrainian history which goes beyond the standard 'national narrative' schemes, predominant in the majority of post-Soviet countries after 1991, in the years of implementing 'nation-building projects'. An unrivalled collection of essays by the finest scholars in the field from Ukraine, Russia, USA, Germany, Austria and Canada, superbly written to a high... Read more
Introduction: Georgiy Kasianov, Philipp Ther, National versus Transnational History, II. Ukrainian History Rewritten, About the Contributors,Index

Biography

Georgiy Kasianov is Head of the Department of Contemporary History and Politics at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is an author, co-author and co-editor of more than twenty books on the history of Ukraine in the 19th–21th centuries.

Philipp Ther teaches modern European history at the Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute (Florence).