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Assistant professor at Kyiv School of Economicsedit
Invited experts who study and teach economic history in American, Romanian, Swedish, and Ukrainian universities answer questions about the recent trends and perspectives in the economic history of Eastern Europe. They demonstrate how the... more
Invited experts who study and teach economic history in American, Romanian, Swedish, and Ukrainian universities answer questions about the recent trends and perspectives in the economic history of Eastern Europe. They demonstrate how the relationship between history and other disciplines developed in Eastern European scholarship. They explain the reasons for the relatively underdeveloped scholarly community of the field in the region. Finally, they talk about the applicable theories and concepts which could challenge Gerschenkron’s theoretical framework when discussing the history of economy and business in Eastern Europe. Authors mostly accept the suggested statement that the economic history of Eastern Europe is institutionally underdeveloped if compared with Western scholarship. At the same time, they see the situation as a good opportunity for the development of new research projects. The authors emphasize the necessity to “learn the language of other disciplines” as well as to develop skills in data analysis. They also point out that to explain the global economic transformations in history, working with archival sources and understanding the context are as important as the application of economic theories and quantitative analysis.
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The authors review the religious revival in Ukraine from its independence until 2018. Following the collapse of the USSR traditional religious groups were resurrected (e.g. Orthodox and Greek Catholics) and new ones entered the stage... more
The authors review the religious revival in Ukraine from its independence until 2018. Following the collapse of the USSR traditional religious groups were resurrected (e.g. Orthodox and Greek Catholics) and new ones entered the stage (e.g. various Protestant and Evangelistic organizations). In contrast to many post-communist societies, the Ukrainian religious landscape became extremely diverse. Three Orthodox jurisdictions, Greek and Roman Catholics, traditional minorities of Jews and Muslim Tatars together with new Protestant and Evangelistic groups have contributed to the pallet. The authors apply a religious market framework to discuss religious consumption (respondents) and supply (religious organizations). Novel data about religious communities registered at the regional level suggest that religious pluralism and the competition between the Ukrainian Orthodox jurisdictions have been a pivotal facet of religious revival in Ukraine.
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The collapse of the USSR resulted in religious revivals in all former republics, including Ukraine. Religion provided security and emotional support. It legitimized political elites, while some churches also offered public goods,... more
The collapse of the USSR resulted in religious revivals in all former republics, including Ukraine. Religion provided security and emotional support. It legitimized political elites, while some churches also offered public goods, substituting the state. With time, religion became a crucial component of the national identities. Despite many similarities to other primely Orthodox countries, Ukraine has been unique in its religious landscape. Several Orthodox jurisdictions have competed for the status of the national church, which allowed religious fragmentation in all regions of Ukraine. This paper shows the importance of religious pluralism in Ukraine during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021.
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Most of the existing literature on legislative networks has been largely focused on the strength, formation, and nature of ties amongst legislators. Since most of such studies have been focused on the U.S. political context, it has become... more
Most of the existing literature on legislative networks has been largely focused on the strength, formation, and nature of ties amongst legislators. Since most of such studies have been focused on the U.S. political context, it has become customary to address the legislative behavior of MPs and how they align with the ideological boundaries. Concurrently, little research has been conducted on the formation and dissolvement of stable political alliances, such as coalitions. Moreover, most of the existing studies assume that legislative behavior is based on signaling effects. Yet, the effect of information exposure (i.e. signals) and the trail of legislative behavior based on such information, however, has received scant attention. Our aim is to address that lacuna by investigating the network effect of information exposure on coalition formation and legislative behavior through data from a natural experiment. In 2015, after one year of the Ukrainian Parliament procedures, new legislation was enforced on MPs, which required them to declare all their assets publicly. Despite such an abrupt (and unpleasant for them) change, most MPs filled the declarations demonstrating their wealth to the public for the first time. This event was clearly unexpected and was received as similar to a natural or social disaster. Within a few months, the exposure of information turned many MPs from “perhaps rich” to “definitely rich”. We base our analysis on the—strong, but demonstratively justified—assumption that the wealth of MPs became public for the first time through their declarations (it was the first time in history that the actual magnitude and variation of assets were revealed to the public). If there is indeed an effect of signaling, then network effects should have become stronger, since the social theory of homophily predicts that similar actors will form ties and behave similarly (i.e. rich MPs will have similar behavior, and rich and not-so-rich MPs will have a different one). On the other hand, one could hypothesize that the revelation of the information of wealth could make the less wealthy MPs aware of the benefits they can get if they behave in certain ways. Thus, they could replicate the behavior of their wealthy colleagues to accumulate wealth. We investigate how the behavior of MPs actually changed after the declarations became public, and we further explore the effect of declarations on coalition formation. We employ autologistic actor attribute models (ALAAMs)—which represent a variation of exponential random graph models (ERGMs), where the dependent variable is a behavior—to investigate the social influence of wealth revelation in the legislating behavior of Ukrainian MPs after the event of information exposure. Our findings enhance understandings on the organizational processes within networks and elucidate the mechanisms of homophily on the event of information exposure.
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Resilience of local communities (territorial hromadas) is an increasingly salient matter in the academic and policy debate on the factors which have determined Ukraine's resilience to Russia's 2022 invasion. Building on existing... more
Resilience of local communities (territorial hromadas) is an increasingly salient matter in the academic and policy debate on the factors which have determined Ukraine's resilience to Russia's 2022 invasion. Building on existing literature on institutional resilience and its predictors, this article explains the ability of Ukrainian self‐governed municipalities to withstand the threats to institutional stability stemming from the invasion. First, it uses an exploratory qualitative design to operationalize the concept of resilience and its predictors with an account of varying experiences of Ukrainian hromadas during the full‐scale invasion (e.g., hromadas near the frontline and in the rear). Next, it presents data from open sources and the results of a regression analysis to test the impact of various groups of predictors on hromadas' resilience to the full‐scale invasion. Our models show a significant relationship between hromadas' resilience and geographical, polit...
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Invited experts who study and teach economic history in American, Romanian, Swedish, and Ukrainian universities answer questions about the recent trends and perspectives in the economic history of Eastern Europe. They demonstrate how the... more
Invited experts who study and teach economic history in American, Romanian, Swedish, and Ukrainian universities answer questions about the recent trends and perspectives in the economic history of Eastern Europe. They demonstrate how the relationship between history and other disciplines developed in Eastern European scholarship. They explain the reasons for the relatively underdeveloped scholarly community of the field in the region. Finally, they talk about the applicable theories and concepts which could challenge Gerschenkron’s theoretical framework when discussing the history of economy and business in Eastern Europe. Authors mostly accept the suggested statement that the economic history of Eastern Europe is institutionally underdeveloped if compared with Western scholarship. At the same time, they see the situation as a good opportunity for the development of new research projects. The authors emphasize the necessity to “learn the language of other disciplines” as well as to ...
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Odesa was one of the largest and most important cities in the Russian Empire. Numerous studies have addressed the economic development and social structure of Odesa, but there are some gaps in the knowledge of the social stratification... more
Odesa was one of the largest and most important cities in the Russian Empire. Numerous studies have addressed the economic development and social structure of Odesa, but there are some gaps in the knowledge of the social stratification during the nineteenth century. Although most studies of the social and economic histories of Ukraine provide qualitative or highly aggregated quantitative data, micro-data at the level of individuals and households in Ukraine are rare. This paper provides new micro-data from the 1897 census in Odesa. It is the first attempt to code occupations of Odesa workers according to the Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations (HISCO). Of the 2,435 individuals in the 457 sampled households analyzed, 1,443 individuals demonstrate 86 of the unique occupations coded with the international HISCO scheme. The analysis compares these HISCO occupations by the social estates, the gender, and the language of the surveyed individuals. The study conf...
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How can intergroup trust and forgiveness be fostered in the face of violent, large-scale intergroup conflict? We addressed this challenge by testing the role of intergroup felt understanding – the extent to which outgroup members are... more
How can intergroup trust and forgiveness be fostered in the face of violent, large-scale intergroup conflict? We addressed this challenge by testing the role of intergroup felt understanding – the extent to which outgroup members are perceived to understand ingroup perspectives – in predicting Ukrainian nationals’ inclinations to trust and forgive Russians for the conflict that has affected Ukraine since 2014. We did so using representative longitudinal data (N = 743 across three time points) collected six months before Russia’s full-scale invasion. Pre-registered analysis of dynamic mediation models confirmed that increases over time in felt understanding predicted increases over time in perceived positive regard, which in turn predicted increased outgroup trust and forgiveness over time. A mini-multiverse analysis indicated that this pattern was also largely robust to varying time point specifications. The findings provide further evidence that the feeling of being understood may ...
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-gpi-10.1177_1368430220978278 for Coronavirus conspiracy beliefs and distrust of science predict risky public health behaviours through optimistically biased risk perceptions in Ukraine, Turkey, and Germany... more
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-gpi-10.1177_1368430220978278 for Coronavirus conspiracy beliefs and distrust of science predict risky public health behaviours through optimistically biased risk perceptions in Ukraine, Turkey, and Germany by Maria Chayinska, Özden Melis Uluğ, Arin H. Ayanian, Johanna Claudia Gratzel, Tymofii Brik, Anna Kende and Craig McGarty in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
The collapse of the USSR resulted in religious revivals in all former republics, including Ukraine. Religion provided security and emotional support. It legitimized political elites, while some churches also offered public goods,... more
The collapse of the USSR resulted in religious revivals in all former republics, including Ukraine. Religion provided security and emotional support. It legitimized political elites, while some churches also offered public goods, substituting the state. With time, religion became a crucial component of the national identities. Despite many similarities to other primely Orthodox countries, Ukraine has been unique in its religious landscape. Several Orthodox jurisdictions have competed for the status of the national church, which allowed religious fragmentation in all regions of Ukraine. This paper shows the importance of religious pluralism in Ukraine during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021.
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Economic inequality is associated with extreme rates of temporal discounting, which is a behavioral pattern where individuals choose smaller, immediate financial gains over larger, delayed gains. Such patterns may feed into rising global... more
Economic inequality is associated with extreme rates of temporal discounting, which is a behavioral pattern where individuals choose smaller, immediate financial gains over larger, delayed gains. Such patterns may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear if they are a function of choice preferences or norms, or rather absence of sufficient resources to meet immediate needs. It is also not clear if these reflect true differences in choice patterns between income groups. We test temporal discounting and five intertemporal choice anomalies using local currencies and value standards in 61 countries. Across a diverse sample of 13,629 participants, we found highly consistent rates of choice anomalies. Individuals with lower incomes were not significantly different, but economic inequality and broader financial circumstances impact population choice patterns.
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During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVIDiSTRESS Consortium launched an open-accessglobal survey to understand and improve individuals’ experiences related to the crisis. A year later,we extended this line of research by... more
During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVIDiSTRESS Consortium launched an open-accessglobal survey to understand and improve individuals’ experiences related to the crisis. A year later,we extended this line of research by launching a new survey to address the dynamic landscape of thepandemic. This survey was released with the goal of addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion byworking with over 150 researchers across the globe who collected data in 48 languages and dialectsacross 137 countries. The resulting cleaned dataset described here includes 15,740 of over 20,000responses. The dataset allows cross-cultural study of psychological wellbeing and behaviours a yearinto the pandemic. It includes measures of stress, resilience, vaccine attitudes, trust in government andscientists, compliance, and information acquisition and misperceptions regarding COVID-19. Openaccessraw and cleaned datasets with computed scores are available. Just as our initial COVIDiSTRESSdataset has ...
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The employment status of billions of people has been affected by the COVID epidemic around the Globe. New evidence is needed on how to mitigate the job market crisis, but there exists only a handful of studies mostly focusing on developed... more
The employment status of billions of people has been affected by the COVID epidemic around the Globe. New evidence is needed on how to mitigate the job market crisis, but there exists only a handful of studies mostly focusing on developed countries. We fill in this gap in the literature by using novel data from Ukraine, a transition country in Eastern Europe, which enacted strict quarantine policies early on. We model four binary outcomes to identify respondents (i) who are not working during quarantine, (ii) those who are more likely to work from home, (iii) respondents who are afraid of losing a job, and, finally, (iv) survey participants who have savings for 1 month or less if quarantine is further extended. Our findings suggest that respondents employed in public administration, programming and IT, as well as highly qualified specialists, were more likely to secure their jobs during the quarantine. Females, better educated respondents, and those who lived in Kyiv were more likel...
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The authors review the religious revival in Ukraine from its independence until 2018. Following the collapse of the USSR traditional religious groups were resurrected (e.g. Orthodox and Greek Catholics) and new ones entered the stage... more
The authors review the religious revival in Ukraine from its independence until 2018. Following the collapse of the USSR traditional religious groups were resurrected (e.g. Orthodox and Greek Catholics) and new ones entered the stage (e.g. various Protestant and Evangelistic organizations). In contrast to many post-communist societies, the Ukrainian religious landscape became extremely diverse. Three Orthodox jurisdictions, Greek and Roman Catholics, traditional minorities of Jews and Muslim Tatars together with new Protestant and Evangelistic groups have contributed to the pallet. The authors apply a religious market framework to discuss religious consumption (respondents) and supply (religious organizations). Novel data about religious communities registered at the regional level suggest that religious pluralism and the competition between the Ukrainian Orthodox jurisdictions have been a pivotal facet of religious revival in Ukraine.
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In the last decade, online social media has become the primary platform for protesters to organize and express their agenda in various parts of the world. Nevertheless, scholars still debate whether online tools induce offline protests or... more
In the last decade, online social media has become the primary platform for protesters to organize and express their agenda in various parts of the world. Nevertheless, scholars still debate whether online tools induce offline protests or facilitate them [1, 2]. Unfortunately, studies of protests often lack panel data and cannot address how particular users change their behaviour over time in line with the protest agenda. To this end, we analyze a new dataset of the Facebook page EuroMaydan that was explicitly created to facilitate the protest in Ukraine from November 2013 to February 2014. Moreover, our analysis follows this page even after the end of the protest till June 2014. This page had more than 300,000 subscribers at the time when the data was collected. On average, this page generated hundreds of posts and thousands of comments per day, reaching up to 37,307 comments in one day. In total, the dataset includes 26,631 posts and 1,470,593 comments that were generated by 124,7...
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Most of the existing literature on legislative networks has been largely focused on the strength, formation, and nature of ties amongst legislators. Since most of such studies have been focused on the U.S. political context, it has become... more
Most of the existing literature on legislative networks has been largely focused on the strength, formation, and nature of ties amongst legislators. Since most of such studies have been focused on the U.S. political context, it has become customary to address the legislative behavior of MPs and how they align with the ideological boundaries. Concurrently, little research has been conducted on the formation and dissolvement of stable political alliances, such as coalitions. Moreover, most of the existing studies assume that legislative behavior is based on signaling effects. Yet, the effect of information exposure (i.e. signals) and the trail of legislative behavior based on such information, however, has received scant attention. Our aim is to address that lacuna by investigating the network effect of information exposure on coalition formation and legislative behavior through data from a natural experiment. In 2015, after one year of the Ukrainian Parliament procedures, new legisla...
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This paper investigates wage inequalities among domestic workers in early modern Poltava (present day Ukraine), which was an important military-administrative of a Cossack Hetmanate, which was an autonomy within the Russian Empire. The... more
This paper investigates wage inequalities among domestic workers in early modern Poltava (present day Ukraine), which was an important military-administrative of a Cossack Hetmanate, which was an autonomy within the Russian Empire. The data are derived from Rumyantsev census conducted between 1765 and 1769 (N = 1,109). While previous studies often measured domestic workers’ wages indirectly, this historical source contains direct information on their wages in rubles per year. The data suggest that age and social status shaped wages of domestic workers in early modern Ukraine. After the age of 29, wages of all domestic workers stagnated and after 40 wages declined significantly. However, male domestic workers of Cossack origin had higher wages when compared to peasantry, while median wages of married women were similar to that of peasant men, and young girls received higher wages than young boys. These findings open a room for a debate about economic power of male and female workers ...
There is a well-accepted consensus in the existing literature that the theory of church competition has been put on hold waiting for more theoretical clarification and empirical scrutiny. Church competition should be studied in line with... more
There is a well-accepted consensus in the existing literature that the theory of church competition has been put on hold waiting for more theoretical clarification and empirical scrutiny. Church competition should be studied in line with the ecological and path-dependency perspectives. The main goal of this dissertation is to answer to this demand. Each chapter of this dissertation has its own goals. The goal of the first chapter is to study the interaction of religious competition and economic modernization in the Netherlands during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Religious competition between Roman Catholics, Liberal Protestants and so-called Orthodox Protestants was embedded in the process of economic modernization. While previous studies largely focused on a division between Catholics and Protestants, this chapter stresses the intra-doctrinal schisms within Protestant groups. Such divisions are known in the literature as pillarization. The first chapter aims to study the exte...
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Research has shown that people recognize and select leaders based on their facial appearance. However, considering the correlation between the performance of leaders and their facial traits, empirical findings are mixed. This paper adds... more
Research has shown that people recognize and select leaders based on their facial appearance. However, considering the correlation between the performance of leaders and their facial traits, empirical findings are mixed. This paper adds to the debate by focusing on two previously understudied aspects of facial traits among political leaders: (i) previous studies have focused on electoral success and achievement drive of politicians omitting their actual daily performance after elections; (ii) previous research has analyzed individual politicians omitting the context of social circumstances which potentially influence their performance. We address these issues by analyzing Ukrainian members of parliament (MPs) who voted for bills in six consecutive Verkhovna Rada starting from Rada 4 (2002-06) to Rada 9 (2019-Present) to study politicians’ performance, which is defined as co-voting or cooperation between MPs in voting on the same bill. In simple words, we analyze whether politicians ...
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The authors investigate changing attitudes towards privatization of land and enterprises in Ukraine. The support of privatization declined dramatically in Ukraine from 1992 to 2018. Such a reversal of initial positive attitudes towards... more
The authors investigate changing attitudes towards privatization of land and enterprises in Ukraine. The support of privatization declined dramatically in Ukraine from 1992 to 2018. Such a reversal of initial positive attitudes towards privatization has been observed in some transition countries. The literature suggests two hypotheses to explain this reversal. According to the shadow of communism hypothesis, people who were socialized during the period of communist regimes internalized specific ideas critical to privatization. The second one implies that people in social strata who have been disadvantaged by transition hold more negative views toward privatization. The authors review the previous literature and present new data from the Ukrainian Society survey. The data suggest that the shadow of communism hypothesis explains the case of Ukraine quite well.
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The present paper examines the extent to which conspiracy beliefs about the COVID-19 outbreak and distrust of epidemiological science are likely to predict optimistically biased risk perceptions at the individual and group levels. We... more
The present paper examines the extent to which conspiracy beliefs about the COVID-19 outbreak and distrust of epidemiological science are likely to predict optimistically biased risk perceptions at the individual and group levels. We explored the factor structure of coronavirus conspiracy beliefs and their associations with trust in science in predicting risk perceptions using survey data collected in Ukraine ( N = 390), Turkey ( N = 290), and Germany ( N = 408). We further expected conspiracy beliefs and distrust of science to predict people’s willingness to attend public gatherings versus maintaining preventive physical distancing through optimistically biased risk perceptions. Metric noninvariance for key constructs across the samples was observed so the samples were analysed separately. In Ukraine, a two-factor structure of conspiracy beliefs was found wherein COVID-19 bioweapon (but not COVID-19 profit) beliefs were negatively associated with public gathering through optimistic...
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The authors summarize specific features of the transformations in different areas of Ukrainian society and possible ways to achieve successful transformation in the future such as the development of human potential, empowerment of the... more
The authors summarize specific features of the transformations in different areas of Ukrainian society and possible ways to achieve successful transformation in the future such as the development of human potential, empowerment of the middle class, restoration of institutional trust, and strengthening of civil control over political parties. The authors also discuss the possible utility of value-mediators that may smooth the transition from Ukrainian to Western values now that increasing shares of the population are opting for the European vector of development over its “competing” Eastern post-Soviet model.
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Economic inequality is associated with extreme rates of temporal discounting, which is a behavioral pattern where individuals choose smaller, immediate financial gains over larger, delayed gains. Such patterns may feed into rising global... more
Economic inequality is associated with extreme rates of temporal discounting, which is a behavioral pattern where individuals choose smaller, immediate financial gains over larger, delayed gains. Such patterns may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear if they are a function of choice preferences or norms, or rather absence of sufficient resources to meet immediate needs. It is also not clear if these reflect true differences in choice patterns between income groups. We test temporal discounting and five intertemporal choice anomalies using local currencies and value standards in 61 countries. Across a diverse sample of 13,629 participants, we found highly consistent rates of choice anomalies. Individuals with lower incomes were not significantly different, but economic inequality and broader financial circumstances impact population choice patterns.
The author presents the history of sociological theories about food and consumption. This brief description, by and large, coincides with the description of the development of the whole discipline. The purpose of this text is not to give... more
The author presents the history of sociological theories about food and consumption. This brief description, by and large, coincides with the description of the development of the whole discipline. The purpose of this text is not to give a personal or original view of the development of sociology, but to acquaint interested readers with the main directions of the sociological literature and references to modern studies of food and consumption. In addition, this text seeks to show that sociological and historical studies often intersect and enrich each other
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В рамках данной статьи рассматриваются некоторые принципы и примеры реализации сетевого анализа биографических интервью, раскрыт общий замысел и специфика сетевого подхода к изучению структуры научного сообщества советских и российских... more
В рамках данной статьи рассматриваются некоторые принципы и примеры реализации сетевого анализа биографических интервью, раскрыт общий замысел и специфика сетевого подхода к изучению структуры научного сообщества советских и российских социологов на базе биографических данных, а также выделены его возможности и ограничения. Основой для проводимого анализа выступает исследование, направленное на реконструкцию сетей взаимодействий между ключевыми фигурами советской и российской социологической науки с помощью методов сетевого анализа, основанное на материалах историко-социологического проекта Б.З. Докторова, которое в данный момент реализуется авторами.
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Книжка «Нариси новітньої історії України» — це спроба міжнародної групи на- уковців, зібраних Інститутом Кеннана при Міжнародну науковому центрі імені Вудро Вільсона (Вашингтон, США), описати та проаналізувати колективний до- свід... more
Книжка «Нариси новітньої історії України» — це спроба міжнародної групи на- уковців, зібраних Інститутом Кеннана при Міжнародну науковому центрі імені Вудро Вільсона (Вашингтон, США), описати та проаналізувати колективний до- свід сучасних українців, якого вони набули за останні тридцять років. У дев’яти розділах книги автори — вчені з українських, американських, британських, єв- ропейських і канадських університетів досліджують, як поставала незалежна дер- жава, виникали й розв’язувалися політичні кризи, формувався приватний сектор та енергетика, перевинаходилися багатство й бідність, розвивалися вільні ЗМІ та сучасне мистецтво, виникав новий релігійний досвід, а також еволюціонували на- ціональна ідентичність і демократичний лад в Україні. Написана з різних дослід- ницьких та ідеологічних позицій, ця історія дозволяє побачити багатство й трагіч- ність розмаїтого досвіду сучасної України.