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Ukrainian humanities scholars usually place Ukraine at the centre of their research, only occasionally referring to broader contexts. The author has tried to go beyond this tradition. He focuses on Eastern Europe as an ideological construct that emerged in the twentieth century and is still searching for its inherent essence.

The subject of analysis is the complex and ambiguous processes that shape the concept of Eastern Europe. In the past, this region has been the subject of a complicated history, which still reverberates in its post-conquest and post-communist tendencies. At the same time, the author observes the gradual emergence of new qualities that are changing the region. Europe's symbolic borders are shifting rapidly today, and its borderland marks Ukraine as a continental outpost that will influence European identity in the future.