List of Abbreviations List of Images Foreword: Ukraine en route to where?, by Dieter Segert Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Remapping the Post-Soviet Space 1. "Eurasia" and its Uses in the Ukrainian Geopolitical Imagination 2. Slavic Sisters into European Neighbours: Ukrainian-Belarusian relations after 1991 Part II. Bordering Nations, Transcending Boundaries 3. Under Construction: the Ukrainian-Russian Border from the Soviet Collapse to EU Enlargement 4. Boundary in Mind: Discourses and Narratives of the Ukrainian-Russian Border 5. "Slobozhanshchyna": Re-inventing a Region in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands Part III. Living (with the) Border 6. Making Sense of a New Border: Social Transformations and Shifting Identities in Five Near-Border Villages 7. Becoming Ukrainians in a "Russian" Village: Local Identity, Language and National Belonging
Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Security in the Institute of International Relations at Prague, Principal Researcher of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.
[The] analytical structure and trajectory of Zhurzhenkos work
travelling from broad historical time and geopolitical space to the
here and now practically means one could read it from the last
chapter to the first as easily as the other, conventional, way
around. I enjoyed immensely reading in the closing chapters the
Ukrainian and Russian villagers own testimonies, their
preoccupations, details of their changing lives. I could well have
taken all this in first before proceeding to the so called 'bigger
questions' of state-to-state relations and the changing
geopolitical architecture of Eastern Europe. Either way, it is a
carefully constructed narrative about the advent of a border in
peoples minds and across their land. -- Debatte, vol. 19, issue
1-2, 2011
"I enjoyed immensely reading in the closing chapters the Ukrainian
and Russian villagers' own testimonies, their preoccupations,
details of their changing lives. It is a carefully constructed
narrative about the advent of a border in people's minds and across
their land. -- Marko Bojcun, Faculty of Governance and
International Relations London Metropolitan University
"Overall, this monograph is an excellent piece of scholarship,
which is well written and extremely well researched. It will be of
interest to researchers and students of East European Studies as
well as Post-Soviet Studies and of specific interest for
individuals interested in border studies as an emerging sub-field
within the social sciences. -- Peter Rodgers, University of
Sheffield
[] many academic readers will find the fieldwork portion of
Zhurzhenkos volume, as well as some of her theoretical analysis,
informative and thought-provoking. [] Her detailed focus on the
area and its problems is truly pioneering and is to be commended.
-- Anthropology of East Europe Review 30 (1), Spring 2012
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