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• ISBN: 9781668013724
• Physical Description: vi, 422 pages : maps ; 24 cm
• Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition July 2023.
• Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, 2023.
• Bibliography, etc.: Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-405) and index.
• Formatted Contents: Introduction -- PART 1: SEVEN TALES OF COLONIAL OPPRESSION IN UKRAINE -- The myth of unity: how Bohdan Khmelnytsky signed a contract with moscow -- The myth of betrayal: how Ivan Mazepa broke with Peter the Great -- The myth of Crimea: how Catherine the Great took away cossack freedom -- The myth of language: how Taras Shevchenko battled slavery -- The myth of Lenin: how independent Ukraine emerged -- The myth of prosperity: how Stalin engineered the holodomor -- The myth of Bandera: how Ukrainians fought in World War II -- PART II: SEVEN TALES OF PRESENT-DAY OPPRESSION IN UKRAINE -- Unity again: how Soviet Ukraine searched for itself -- Betrayal again: how Leonid Kravchuk destroyed the Soviet Union -- Language again: how Leonid Kuchma saddled the devil and flew to Moscow -- Bandera again: how Putin sowed the seeds of the orange revolution -- Prosperity again: how Viktor Yanukovych overcame the orange revolution -- Crimea again: how Putin unleashed war on Ukraine -- Lenin again: how Volodymr Zelensky stopped joking.

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