title: The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, Second edition
author: Andrew Wilson
description: "In this excellent guide, Wilson charts the history of Ukrainian nationalism over the centuries and examines the ways in which Ukrainians have understood their culture, myths, history, and politics as specifically Ukrainian. Wilson has succeeded admirably in providing a detailed and judicious study of the current ideas that make up Ukrainian national identity."&#151;Virginia Quarterly Review "A lively, detailed, and eminently sensible exploration of who the Ukrainians are and why they are important . . . required reading for anyone with a serious interest in Eastern Europe."&#151;Anna Reid, Literary Review "[A] sweeping introductory examination of Ukrainian identity and history. . . . An exceptional history, the kind that supplies not pat answers but food for thought within a lush context of documented and mythological past."&#151;Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A fresh, objective look at Ukrainian identity, which explores the many past and present possibilities that continue to confront this 'unexpected nation'."&#151;Choice
zlib_text: ALSO BY ANNE APPLEBAUM
  Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
  Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956
  Gulag: A History
  Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe
  
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   2020 by Anne Applebaum
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of
  Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
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  trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
  Portions of this book originally appeared in the following publications: “A Warning
  from Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come” (October 2018) and “The People in
  Charge See an Opportunity” (March 23, 2020) first published in The Atlantic.
  “Want to Build a Far-Right Movement? Spain’s Vox Party Shows How” first
  published in The Washington Post (May 2, 2019).
  Cover design by John Fontana
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Names: Applebaum, Anne, 1964– author.
  Title: Twilight of democracy : the seductive lure of autho