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| Author | Orest Subtelny |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Publication date | 1988 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 666 |
| ISBN | 978-0-8020-5808-9 |
| OCLC | 20722741 |
| 947.1 | |
| LC Class | DK508.51.S82 |
Ukraine: A History is a 1988 book on thehistory of Ukraine written byOrest Subtelny, aprofessor ofhistory andpolitical science atYork University,Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a comprehensive survey of the history of the geographical area encompassed by what is modern-dayUkraine. Updated editions have been published in 1994 to include new material on thedissolution of the Soviet Union, 2000 to include Ukraine'sfirst decade of independence, and 2009 to include theOrange Revolution and the effects ofglobalization on Ukraine.
The history of Ukraine is divided into five parts in the book and presented chronologically, beginning with an introductory chapter on theprehistory of Ukraine titled The Earliest Times, followed by Part One:Kievan Rus', Part Two:The Polish-Lithuanian Period, Part Three:The Cossack Era, Part Four:Ukraine under Imperial Rule, and Part Five: Twentieth-Century Ukraine.
The book has received positive reviews from theJournal of Ukrainian Studies,Canadian Book Review Annual,Midwest Book Review, andWorld Affairs Report.[1]
