Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Legacy of History in Russia and the New States of Eurasia I. Russia 2. On Certain Mythical Beliefs and Russian Behaviors 3. The Yugoslav Question in the Foreign Policy of Russia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 4. Struggle Over the Borderlands II. The Western Newly Independent States, Map 5. National Identity and Foreign Policy in the Baltic States 6. History as a Battleground: Russian-Ukrainian Relations and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary Ukraine 7. Historical Debates and Territorial Claims: Cossack Mythology in the Russian-Ukrainian Border Dispute 8. Basic Factors in the Foreign Policy of Ukraine: The Impact of the Soviet Experience III. The Southern Newly Independent States 9. Central Asia's Foreign Relations: A Historical Survey 10. The Rediscovery ofUzbek History and Its Foreign Policy Implications 11. Historical Memory and Foreign Relations: The Armenian Perspective 12. Azerbaijan: A Borderland at the Crossroads of History

About the Author

S. Frederick Starr is a historian and jazz musician. Educated at Yale, Cambridge University, and Princeton, he was the founding secretary of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at The Wilson Center in Washington and served for eleven years as president of Oberlin College in Ohio. In addition to his writings on Soviet and Russian affairs, he has taken an active role in Russian-American relations and served in various advisory capacities to the United States government. Most recently, he is the author of a major biography of the American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.