Table of Contents

Foreword by Paul Robert Magocsi Introduction Part I. Comparative and Theoretical Nationalism 1. The Myth of the Civic State: A Critical Survey of Hans Kohn's Framework for Understanding Nationalism 2. 'Nationalising States' or Nation Building: A Review of the Theoretical Literature and Empirical Evidence 3. Can Western Multiculturalism Be Applied to the Post-Soviet States: A Critical Response to Kymlicka Part II. Nationalism and Transitology 4. Transition in Post-Communist States: Triple or Quadruple? 5. The National Factor in Ukraine's Quadruple Transition 6. National Identity and Democratic Transition in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Belarus: A Theoretical and Comparative Perspective 7. Ukraine's Post-Soviet Transition: A Theoretical and Comparative Perspective Part III. Country Case Studies Of Nationalism 8. Russians and Russophones in the Former USSR and Serbs in Yugoslavia: A Comparative Study of Passivity and Mobilisation 9. Nationalism in Ukraine. Towards a New Theoretical and Comparative Framework 10. Identity and Nation-Building in Ukraine: Defining the 'Other' 11. Rusyns in Ukraine: Between Fact and Fiction Part IV. History, Myths And Nationalism 12. History and National Identity among the Eastern Slavs: Towards a New Framework 13. History, Memory and Nation Building in the Post-Soviet Colonial Space 14. Nation-State Building and the Re-Writing of History in Ukraine: The Legacy of Kyiv Rus 15. National Identity and History Writing in Ukraine About the Author

About the Author

The author:

Dr. Taras Kuzio is a Research Associate at George Washington University, and author or editor of, among numerous other publications, ten scholarly books.

The author of the foreword:

Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi holds the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.

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