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Book SynopsisThis book makes important assertions not only about the conflicts and negotiations inherent to opposing historiographic traditions, but about ways of overcoming the limitations imposed by those traditions.
Trade Review"Plokhy moves seamlessly across the centuries with great erudition ... This is a rich and rewarding work." -- Andrew Wilson Journal of Modern History "[Ukraine and Russia] provides not only sharp insights into the historiography but profound evidence of the interplay between identity and historical imagination." -- Barbara Skinner Slavic Review "Ukraine and Russia presents itself not only as a rich and meticulously argued work of scholarship, but also as an excitingly topical book likely to fascinate not only historians intent upon refining their models of the past, but general readers seeking to understand one of Europe's most complex, and most uncertain, international relationships." -- Marko Pavlyshyn Australian Slavonic and East European Studies "A priceless exploration of mythology's role in historiography ... Plokhy tackles the sore issue of overlapping national narratives with commendable balance, discipline, and insight." -- Anton Fedyashin European History Quarterly 'This attractive and well written book deserves to be read attentively by historians, political scientists, and opinion formers in Ukraine, Russia, and the West.' -- Richard Abraham Russian Journal of Communication, vol. 3:1-2:2010 'Only a senior scholar who has an easy familiarity with broad range of writings could have written this excellent book. Plokhy provides a sophisticated analysis of how Ukrainian and Russian historians have produced both similar and different histories and historiographies; of Ukrainian and Russian history.' -- Alexander J. Motyl Journal of Ukrainian Studies 33-34: 2008-2009
