The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Ukraine

This is the first synthetic book-length study in English of the Ukrainian nation-building during the "long" nineteenth century.

Andriy Zayarnyuk teaches history at the University of Winnipeg. He is a historian of modern Ukraine. He also wrote Framing the Ukrainian Peasantry in Habsburg Galicia, 1846-1914 (2013), and Lviv's Uncertain Destination: A City and Its Train Terminal from Franz Joseph I to Brezhnev (2020). Ostap Sereda teaches history at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and Central European University (Budapest-Vienna). His publications on political discourses and cultural practices in nineteenth-century Ukraine include the article "Nationalizing or Entertaining? Public Discourses on Musical Theater in Russian-ruled Kyiv in the 1870s and 1880s" (2010).

Introduction 1. Empires and Peoples 2. Learning from People 3. Joining with People 4. The People's Future 5. Legacies