Borderlands Into Bordered Lands: Geopolitics of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine

by Andreas Umland and Tatiana Zhurzhenko

Since 1991, post-Soviet political elites in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus have been engaged in nation- as well as state-building. They have tried to strengthen territorial sovereignty and national security, re-shape collective identities and re-narrate national histories. Former Soviet republics have become new neighbours, partners, and competitors searching for geopolitical identity in the new "Eastern Europe", i.e. the countries left outside the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 383820042X
• ISBN13: 9783838200422
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Ibidem Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher