The first comprehensive account of the making of Ukraine’s borders during the twentieth century. This collection consi
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Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Maps
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction Making the Borders of Contemporary Ukraine
Part One Negotiating Borders Great Power Diplomacy and Ukraine’s Borders
1 Ukraine’s Borders at the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference, 1917–18
2 Poland’s “Civilizing Mission” and Ukrainian Statehood at the Paris Peace Conference
3 The Path to the Treaty of Riga The Establishment of the Polish-Ukrainian Border, 1918–21
4 From the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to the Territorial Agreement of “the Big Three”
Part Two Establishing the Borders of the Soviet Republics
5 Emerging States and Border-Making in Times of War
6 Contested Lines The Russo-Ukrainian Border, 1917–29
7 Overlapping Spaces Negotiating and Delineating the Ukrainian-Moldovan Border during the Interwar and Wartime Years
8 Crimea’s 1954 Transfer to Ukraine A Practical yet Contested Union
Part Three Delineating Ukraine’s Western Border
9 The Formation of the Polish-Ukrainian Border in Volhynia, 1918–21
10 To Reach beyond the Carpathians The Integration of Transcarpathia into Soviet Ukraine, 1944–45
11 The Making of the Romanian-Ukrainian-Moldovan Border at the Maritime Danube in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Conclusion Making and Unmaking the Ukrainian-Russian Border since 1991
Contributors
Index