Ukraine

This comprehensive book focuses on the challenges facing Ukraine as a newly emerged state after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Like all countries with no recent history of independence Ukraine had to invent or recreate effective political institutions reintroduce a market economy and reorient its foreign policy. These tasks were impossible to accomplish without resolving the question of national identity. In this balanced and clear-eyed assessment a team of U.S. and Ukrainian specialists explores the external and internal dimensions of national identity and statehood providing a wealth of information previously unavailable to Western scholars.