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19: Oligarchies in Russia and Ukraine

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Ivan Rudnitsky's Ukraine

The argument that Ukraine is basically political, and this is not trivial, also interesting. It's a multinational country, right? Making an independent state with just the idea of ethnic Ukrainians is going to be pretty tricky. And so again, I'm abbreviating these like decades of debates, but again, it's the political notion of what Ukraine isgoing to be like that wins out.

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