Table of Contents
Maps vii
Foreword Ulrich Schmid xi
Acknowledgements xix
Note on Transliteration and Translation xxi
Introduction: Making the Borders of Contemporary Ukraine Olena Palko Constantin Ardeleanu 3
Part 1 Negotiating Borders: Great Power Diplomacy and Ukraine's Borders
1 Ukraine's Borders at the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference, 1917-18 Borislav Chernev 67
2 Poland's "Civilizing Mission" and Ukrainian Statehood at the Paris Peace Conference Elzhieta Kwiecinska 86
3 The Path to the Treaty of Riga: The Establishment of the Polish-Ukrainian Border, 1918-21 Jan Jacek Bruski 109
4 From the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to the Territorial Agreement of "the Big Three": Redrawing the Polish-Ukrainian Border in 1939-51 Damian Karol Markowski 138
Part 2 Establishing the Borders of the Soviet Republics
5 Emerging States and Border-Making in Times of War: Negotiating the Ukrainian-Belarusian Borders in 1918 Dorota Michaluk 163
6 Contested Lines: The Russo-Ukrainian Border, 1917-29 Stepban Rindlisbacher 189
7 Overlapping Spaces: Negotiating and Delineating the Ukrainian-Moldovan Border during the Interwar and Wartime Years Alexandr Voronovici 210
8 Crimea's 1954 Transfer to Ukraine: A Practical yet Contested Union Austin Charron 238
Part 3 Delineating Ukraine's Western Border
9 The Formation of the Polish-Ukrainian Border in Volhynia, 1918-21 Serhii Hladyshuk 263
10 To Reach beyond the Carpathians: The Integration of Transcarpathia into Soviet Ukraine, 1944-45 Iaroslav Kovalchuk 289
11 The Making of the Romanian-Ukrainian-Moldovan Border at the Maritime Danube in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Constantin Ardeleanu 307
Conclusion: Making and Unmaking the Ukrainian-Russian Border since 1991 Tatiana Zhurzhenko 329
Contributors 355
Index 359