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The new book by the renowned Ukrainian and American historian Serhiy Plokhiy contains essays on Ukraine from early modern times to the present. The book's three sections on history, historians, and memory bring together essays, sketches, and reviews on the turning points of Ukrainian history and the researchers whose contributions to it are the most significant in modern history.

Due to the popular presentation and topics covered, the publication will be of interest to both specialists in Ukrainian history and a wide range of readers in Ukraine and abroad.

Coverage:

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Preface 7
• HISTORY
• Cossack Studies Without Borders 10
• The Cossack Mite, or the Importance of the Frontier in Ukrainian History 30
• Shadows of Pereyaslav 37
• The Mite of Hadiach 59
• Poltava, 1709 88
• HISTORIANS
• Texts and contexts by Natalia Yakovenko 114
• Unpublished book by Frank Sysyn 153
• Mazepa by Tetiana Tairova-Yakovleva 174
• The Nation of Paul by Robert Magocsi 177
• Bloody Lands by Timothy Snyder 188<
• The Communism of James Mace 193
• The Revolution of Mykhailo Vynnytsky 201
• The Church of Natalia Schlichta 206
• The School of Anatoliy Boyko 218
• Meetings with Yaroslav Isayevych 222
• MEMORY
• Ukraine's European Choice 234
• The New Eastern Europe 240
• Remembering Yalta 249
• How Stalin Lost His Head 283
• The Future of the Past 304
• Lenin's Fall 309
• An Index of Names 340