Paul Robert Magocsi, FRSC, is professor of history and political science and holds the chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.
'An academic masterwork that spans two and a half millennia - through the rise of the Kievan Rus, the Cossacks, communism and the crimes of the pogroms and collectivization, to glasnost and the heady days of independence in 1991. The book brims with maps statistical tables and translations.' -- Steve Pona Winnipeg Free Press 'It's a thick but welcome addition to your bookshelf. It should even settle a few arguments with your father-in-law, much to his shock and amazement.' -- Nestor Gula Zdorov! 'Professor Magocsi overcame these [problems associated with writing history texts and still other difficulties extremely well, indeed at times brilliantly. His forty-two unobtrusive, usually page-long maps establish a better graphic setting for history than any other textbook I am acquainted with, thus confirming the distinction the author had already earned with his historical atlases. A remarkable, quite unusual, and very successful aspect of the book is the daring inclusion right in the text (although on a distinctive light grey rather than white background) of numerous documents, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources as well as occasionally some more specialized explanatory material. The marvel is how well these insertions blend with the basic narrative and support it.' -- Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Journal of Ukrainian Studies
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