About This Issue

This special issue is a celebration of Ukraine's first decade of independence. The issue brings together essays in politics, economy, language policy, feminism, literature and national identity during this transitory stage in Ukrainian history.

In This Issue

Author	Page	Title
Taras Kuzio	1	Introduction: Overcoming Legacies of the Past. Observations on Ukraine's First Decade of Independence
Paul D'Anieri	13	Democracy Unfulfilled: The Establishment of Electoral Authoritarianism in Ukraine
Robert S. Kravchuk	37	Administrative Reform and Centre-Local Relations
King Banaian	75	The Economy of Ukraine after Ten Years: The Connection between Delayed Economic Reforms and External Assistance
Mykola Riabchuk	93	The Perilous Way to Freedom: The Independent Mass Media in the Blackmail State
Alexandra Hrycak	135	The Dilemmas of Civic Revival: Ukrainian Women since Independence
Glenn Goshulak	159	Nation Building and Nationalism in Independent Ukraine: Theoretical Perspectives
Stephen Shulman	175	Region, Identity, and Political Authority in Ukraine
Volodymyr Kulyk	197	The Politics of Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Beyond Brubaker
Oleksander Hrytsenko	223	Culture as a Nation-Building Tool in Contemporary Ukraine
Maksym V. Strilkha	239	Language and Language Policy in Ukraine
Tamara Hundorova	249	The Canon Reversed: New Ukrainian Literature of the 1990s
Marko Bojcun	271	Ukraine and European Integration
Jennifer D.P. Moroney	287	Defining and Sustaining Ukraine's Strategic Partnerships
Victor Chudowsky	309	Ukraine's Climate of Opinion and the Political Problem of the
Thomas M. Prymak	325	The Hrushevsky Controversy at the End of the 1990s
Andrii Danylenko	345	Last but not Least? The New Encyclopedia of the Ukrainian Language
Book Reviews	355
Books Received	389