Preface to the new edition -- Ukraine, or remapping Europe : preface to the English edition -- Author's note -- Europe's Ukraina : an introduction -- Information war -- Farewell to empire, farewell to Russia? -- Seeing for ourselves : discovering Ukraine -- Kiev, metropolis -- Ah, Odessa : a city in an era of great expectations -- Promenade in Yalta -- Look upon this city : Kharkov, a capital of the twentieth century -- Dnepropetrovsk : rocket city on the Dnieper and city of Potemkin -- Donetsk : twentieth-century urbicides -- Czernowitz : city upon a hill -- Lviv : capital of provincial Europe -- The shock : thinking the worst-case scenario.

"In 'Ukraine: a nation on the borderland', Karl Schlögel presents a picture of a country which lies on Europe’s borderland and in Russia’s shadow. In recent years, Ukraine has been faced, along with Western Europe, with the political conundrum resulting from Russia’s actions and the ongoing Information War. As well as exploring this confrontation, Schlögel provides detailed, fascinating historical portraits of a panoply of Ukraine’s major cities: Lviv, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Yalta – cities whose often troubled and war-torn histories are as varied as the nationalities and cultures which have made them what they are today, survivors with very particular identities and aspirations. Schlögel feels the pulse of life in these cities, analysing their more recent pasts and their challenges for the future."-- Taken from publishers' website, accessed 25 July 2023.

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