The Ukrainians: unexpected nation

1. Contesting national origins: lays of ancient Rus.

2. The armies of Gog and Magog: myths of Ukrainian antiquity.

3. Neither fish nor fowl: between Poland and Russia.

4. The Cossacks: defenders of the wild field, defenders of the faith.

5. Ukraine, Russia, and Rossiia.

6. The Habsburg alternative.

7. The twentieth century: peasants into Ukrainians?

8. Independence: gained or gifted?

9. Politics: developing the rules of the game.

10. Imagining Ukrainians: one Ukraine or many?

11. Angels and pins: Ukrainian religion.

12. The IMF's red pencil: Ukraine's economic black hole.

13. Imagining Ukraine: towards a theory of Ukrainian geopolitics.