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Tables of Contents for Ukraine
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
x
2
Acknowledgements
xii
1
Note on transliteration and Ukrainian spelling
xiii
Introduction
1
5
1 State and nation building in Ukraine in theoretical and comparative perspective
6
17
In search of a definition
6
5
Nation and state building in comparative perspective
11
10
Conclusions
21
2
2 Soviet to Ukrainian elites
23
20
Elites and states
23
4
Elites in the former USSR
27
1
Elites in Ukraine
28
10
Ukraine's `sly fox'
38
3
Conclusions
41
2
3 Forging a political community
43
26
An atomised and divided society
43
6
Towards consolidation
49
12
New values and morals
61
7
Conclusions
68
1
4 Federalism, regionalism and the myth of separatism
69
31
Federalism versus unitarianism
69
3
Regional allegiances and a Ukrainian political community
72
3
The myth of separatism
75
16
National minorities
91
7
Conclusions
98
2
5 The strategic significance of borders
100
19
Borders, state and nation building
100
10
Contested borders
110
7
Conclusions
117
2
6 In search of a national idea
119
25
Nation building
119
16
In search of a national idea
135
7
Conclusions
142
2
7 National identity and civil society
144
23
National identity
144
5
National identity in Ukraine
149
12
National identity and civil society in Ukraine
161
4
Conclusions
165
2
8 Language policies
167
31
The importance of language to nation building
167
3
Ukrainian as the state language
170
9
A problem of definition
179
6
Bi-ethnic states and bilingualism
185
3
Official and unofficial policies
188
8
Conclusions
196
2
9 History, myths and symbols
198
32
The role of history, memory and myths
198
7
History in the service of state and nation building
205
6
The construction of new, and the revival of old, myths in Ukraine
211
6
National symbols
217
12
Conclusions
229
1
10 Conclusions
230
7
Notes
237
47
Select bibliography of secondary sources
284
9
Index
293