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Making UkraineNegotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century |
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The first comprehensive account of the making of Ukraine’s borders during the twentieth century.
Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have brought scholarly and public attention to Ukraine’s borders. Making Ukraine aims to investigate the various processes of negotiation, delineation, and contestation that have shaped the country’s borders throughout the past century.
Essays by contributors from various historical fields consider how, when, and under what conditions the borders that historically define the country were agreed upon. A diverse set of national and transnational contexts are explored, with a primary focus on the critical period between 1917 and 1954. Chapters are organized around three main themes: the interstate treaties that brought about the new international order in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the world wars, the formation of the internal boundaries between Ukraine and other Soviet republics, and the delineation of Ukraine’s borders with its western neighbours. Investigating the process of bordering Ukraine in the post-Soviet era, contributors also pay close attention to the competing visions of future relations between Ukraine and Russia.
Through its broad geographic and thematic coverage, Making Ukraine illustrates that the dynamics of contemporary border formation cannot be fully understood through the lens of a sole state, frontier, or ideology and sheds light on the shared history of territory and state formation in Europe and the wider modern world.
Essays by contributors from various historical fields consider how, when, and under what conditions the borders that historically define the country were agreed upon. A diverse set of national and transnational contexts are explored, with a primary focus on the critical period between 1917 and 1954. Chapters are organized around three main themes: the interstate treaties that brought about the new international order in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the world wars, the formation of the internal boundaries between Ukraine and other Soviet republics, and the delineation of Ukraine’s borders with its western neighbours. Investigating the process of bordering Ukraine in the post-Soviet era, contributors also pay close attention to the competing visions of future relations between Ukraine and Russia.
Through its broad geographic and thematic coverage, Making Ukraine illustrates that the dynamics of contemporary border formation cannot be fully understood through the lens of a sole state, frontier, or ideology and sheds light on the shared history of territory and state formation in Europe and the wider modern world.
Details
408 Pages, 6 x 9
30 maps
ISBN 9780228011019
May 2022
Formats: Cloth, eBook
"A compelling and original collection of essays that brings together scholars from different countries, regions, and diverging histories and academic worlds." Per Anders Rudling, Lund University, and author of The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931
“Making Ukraine brings together international experts to give for the first time a concise tour d’horizon about the border making of Ukraine from a historical perspective.” H-Ukraine
“Borderology is complex in this rich case-study book. The book’s musings on border conflict and negotiation show that selective claims to land and country settlement can appear at almost any time in Eastern Europe.” The Russian Review
“Making Ukraine brings together international experts to give for the first time a concise tour d’horizon about the border making of Ukraine from a historical perspective.” H-Ukraine
“Borderology is complex in this rich case-study book. The book’s musings on border conflict and negotiation show that selective claims to land and country settlement can appear at almost any time in Eastern Europe.” The Russian Review
Olena Palko is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London.
Constantin Ardeleanu is professor of history at the “Lower Danube” University of Gala?i and long-term fellow at the New Europe College, Bucharest.
Constantin Ardeleanu is professor of history at the “Lower Danube” University of Gala?i and long-term fellow at the New Europe College, Bucharest.
Maps vii
Foreword xi
Ulrich Schmid
Acknowledgements xix
Note on Transliteration and Translation xxi
Introduction: Making the Borders of Contemporary Ukraine 3
Olena Palko and Constantin Ardeleanu
Part One: Negotiating Borders: Great Power Diplomacy and Ukraine’s Borders
1 Ukraine’s Borders at the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference,1917-18 67
Borislav Chernev
2 Poland’s “Civilizing Mission” and Ukrainian Statehood at the Paris Peace Conference 86
Elżbieta Kwiecińska
3 The Path to the Treaty of Riga: The Establishment of the Polish-Ukrainian Border, 1918-21 109
Jan Jacek Bruski
4 From the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to the Territorial Agreement of “the Big Three”: Redrawing the Polish-Ukrainian Border in 1939-52 138
Damian Karol Markowski
Part Two: Establishing the Borders of the Soviet Republics
5 Emerging States and Border-Making in Times of War: Negotiating the Ukrainian-Belarusian Borders in 1918 163
Dorota Michaluk
6 Contested Lines: The Russo-Ukrainian Border, 1917-29 189
Stephan Rindlisbacher
7 Overlapping Spaces: Negotiating and Delineating the Ukrainian- Moldovan Border during the Interwar and Wartime Years 210
Alexandr Voronovici
8 Crimea’s 1954 Transfer to Ukraine: A Practical yet Contested Union 238
Austin Charron
Part Three: Delineating Ukraine’s Western Border
9 The Formation of the Polish-Ukrainian Border in Volhynia, 1918-21 263
Serhii Hladyshuk
10 To Reach beyond the Carpathians: The Integration of Transcarpathia into Soviet Ukraine, 1944-45 289
Iaroslav Kovalchuk
11 The Making of the Romanian-Ukrainian-Moldovan Border at the Maritime Danube in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 307
Constantin Ardeleanu
Conclusion: Making and Unmaking the Ukrainian-Russian Border since 1991 329
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Contributors 355
Index 359
Foreword xi
Ulrich Schmid
Acknowledgements xix
Note on Transliteration and Translation xxi
Introduction: Making the Borders of Contemporary Ukraine 3
Olena Palko and Constantin Ardeleanu
Part One: Negotiating Borders: Great Power Diplomacy and Ukraine’s Borders
1 Ukraine’s Borders at the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference,1917-18 67
Borislav Chernev
2 Poland’s “Civilizing Mission” and Ukrainian Statehood at the Paris Peace Conference 86
Elżbieta Kwiecińska
3 The Path to the Treaty of Riga: The Establishment of the Polish-Ukrainian Border, 1918-21 109
Jan Jacek Bruski
4 From the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to the Territorial Agreement of “the Big Three”: Redrawing the Polish-Ukrainian Border in 1939-52 138
Damian Karol Markowski
Part Two: Establishing the Borders of the Soviet Republics
5 Emerging States and Border-Making in Times of War: Negotiating the Ukrainian-Belarusian Borders in 1918 163
Dorota Michaluk
6 Contested Lines: The Russo-Ukrainian Border, 1917-29 189
Stephan Rindlisbacher
7 Overlapping Spaces: Negotiating and Delineating the Ukrainian- Moldovan Border during the Interwar and Wartime Years 210
Alexandr Voronovici
8 Crimea’s 1954 Transfer to Ukraine: A Practical yet Contested Union 238
Austin Charron
Part Three: Delineating Ukraine’s Western Border
9 The Formation of the Polish-Ukrainian Border in Volhynia, 1918-21 263
Serhii Hladyshuk
10 To Reach beyond the Carpathians: The Integration of Transcarpathia into Soviet Ukraine, 1944-45 289
Iaroslav Kovalchuk
11 The Making of the Romanian-Ukrainian-Moldovan Border at the Maritime Danube in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 307
Constantin Ardeleanu
Conclusion: Making and Unmaking the Ukrainian-Russian Border since 1991 329
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Contributors 355
Index 359
