Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations List of Images Foreword: Ukraine en route to where?, by Dieter Segert Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Remapping the Post-Soviet Space 1. "Eurasia" and its Uses in the Ukrainian Geopolitical Imagination 2. Slavic Sisters into European Neighbours: Ukrainian-Belarusian relations after 1991 Part II. Bordering Nations, Transcending Boundaries 3. Under Construction: the Ukrainian-Russian Border from the Soviet Collapse to EU Enlargement 4. Boundary in Mind: Discourses and Narratives of the Ukrainian-Russian Border 5. "Slobozhanshchyna": Re-inventing a Region in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands Part III. Living (with the) Border 6. Making Sense of a New Border: Social Transformations and Shifting Identities in Five Near-Border Villages 7. Becoming Ukrainians in a "Russian" Village: Local Identity, Language and National Belonging

About the Author

Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Security in the Institute of International Relations at Prague, Principal Researcher of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.

Reviews

[The] analytical structure and trajectory of Zhurzhenkos work travelling from broad historical time and geopolitical space to the here and now practically means one could read it from the last chapter to the first as easily as the other, conventional, way around. I enjoyed immensely reading in the closing chapters the Ukrainian and Russian villagers own testimonies, their preoccupations, details of their changing lives. I could well have taken all this in first before proceeding to the so called 'bigger questions' of state-to-state relations and the changing geopolitical architecture of Eastern Europe. Either way, it is a carefully constructed narrative about the advent of a border in peoples minds and across their land. -- Debatte, vol. 19, issue 1-2, 2011

"I enjoyed immensely reading in the closing chapters the Ukrainian and Russian villagers' own testimonies, their preoccupations, details of their changing lives. It is a carefully constructed narrative about the advent of a border in people's minds and across their land. -- Marko Bojcun, Faculty of Governance and International Relations London Metropolitan University

"Overall, this monograph is an excellent piece of scholarship, which is well written and extremely well researched. It will be of interest to researchers and students of East European Studies as well as Post-Soviet Studies and of specific interest for individuals interested in border studies as an emerging sub-field within the social sciences. -- Peter Rodgers, University of Sheffield

[] many academic readers will find the fieldwork portion of Zhurzhenkos volume, as well as some of her theoretical analysis, informative and thought-provoking. [] Her detailed focus on the area and its problems is truly pioneering and is to be commended. -- Anthropology of East Europe Review 30 (1), Spring 2012