Olena Palko and Constantin Ardeleanu (eds.) (2022): Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century. McGill-Queen’s University Press: Chicago.
Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have brought scholarly and public attention to Ukraine’s borders. Making Ukraine aims to investigate the various processes of negotiation, delineation, and contestation that have shaped the country’s borders throughout the past century. Essays by contributors from various historical fields consider how,… Read More Olena Palko and Constantin Ardeleanu (eds.) (2022): Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century. McGill-Queen’s University Press: Chicago.