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Borderland: A Journey Through the History of the Ukraine by Reid, Anna is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Borderland: A Journey Through the History of the Ukraine about?
In this finely written and penetrating book, Anna Reid combines research and her own experiences to chart Ukraines tragic past. Talking to peasants and politicians, rabbis and racketeers, dissidents and paramilitaries, survivors of Stalins famine and of Nazi labor camps, she reveals the layers of myth and propaganda that wrap this divided land. From the Polish churches of Lviv to the coal mines of the Russian-speaking Donbass, from the Galician shtetlech to the Tatar shantytowns of Crimea, the book explores Ukraines struggle to build itself a national identity, and identity that faces up to a bloody past, and embraces all the peoples within its borders. } Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from the east, and for the next seven centureies, Ukraine was split between warring neighbors: Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Austrians, and Tatars. Again and again, borderland turned into battlefield: during the Cossack risings of the seventeenth century, Russias wars with Sweden in the eighteenth, the Civil War of 19181920, and under Nazi occupation. Ukraine finally won indep
Who reads Borderland: A Journey Through the History of the Ukraine?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Reid, Anna
- Publisher
- Westview Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780786722822
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Travel, History
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (370 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14