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Notes
1. The late-eighteenth-century partitions of Poland–Lithuania are one of the best examples of such a fait accompli by Europe's dynastic empires. Putin's revival of the old empire's “Novorossiia” (New Russia) to lay claim to “eastern Ukraine” is another case in point. On geography as fantasy, see Wolff (Citation1994) and (Citation2010).
2. For a comparative analysis of the Ukrainian literary landscape, Chernetsky (Citation2007) and Andryczyk (Citation2012).
3. Some of Hillis's conclusions warrant further debate: in the source-based discussion of merged regional and national politics, the author tends to conflate methodology with historiography. For urban politics, she relies less on models of urbanization than on periodicals such as Kievlianin: “From its inception, the brand of liberalism championed by Kiev's city fathers was tainted by its association with bad governance and cupidity” (2013, 134). This may be true, but the idea of Rus’-as-civilization, an obsession of Great/Little Russians and Ukrainians alike, was not a given either; these sources tend to reflect an “eastern” orientation from Kiev/Kyiv, Moscow, and St. Petersburg, rather than, say, Warsaw, Prague, Berlin, Paris, or London.
4. In terms of prospects for Russian–Ukrainian relations, the work of Central Europeanists in the history of German–Czech and German–Polish relations is especially germane. For instance, see Bryant (Citation2007); Zahra (Citation2010); Chu (Citation2011); Thum (Citation2011) and Karch (Citation2012).
5. Bilenky uses the differentialist term “nationality.” This places Ukraine in the East Central European universe of Johann Gottfried von Herder and therefore on the cultural/political terms of German and Russian nation-building projects. Such projects presupposed ethnolinguistic uniqueness rather than the political “nation” in English and French traditions dating back at least to 1689 and 1789, based on constitutional rights and citizenship.
6. Hroch's influential model on the making of nationalities is the one favored by Paul Robert Magocsi in his magisterial A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples. Magocsi's multicultural work came out in a second edition in 2010. For a critique of Hroch's model applied to Ukraine, see Yekelchyk (Citation2007) and Szporluk (Citation2008).
7. Plokhy is justifiably critical of selective readings of the text by Alexander Pushkin, who picked elements of struggle for politically Russocentric purposes. He also mentions the Russian–Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol’ (aka Mykola Hohol’), who wrote about Cossack martyrdom in Taras Bulba, and of the poet Taras Shevchenko who seized upon anti-Catholic themes.
8. This approach is suggested in an extensive study of “twin towns” on both sides of the Habsburg–Russian imperial borders between 1772 and 1918 in Adelsgruber, Cohen, and Kuzmany (Citation2012).
9. Peter Gould and Rodney White wrote the canonical work in cultural geography on “mental maps” in 1974, revised into a second edition in Citation1986.