The early migrants who stayed were the Slavs, whose tribes settled along the rivers Dnieper, Dniester, and others and formed the predecessors of today’s Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarusians. The author balances a sense of the diversity and richness of the Ukrainian heritage-the remarkable comingling of early nomads and barbaric invaders through the lands north of the Black Sea-with the later appropriation by Russia. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, 2014, etc.). That the Ukrainian national anthem begins with the words “Ukraine has not yet perished” is a telling depiction of the country’s riven history, as patiently, chronologically delineated by Plokhy (Ukrainian History/Harvard Univ. A sympathetic survey of the history of Ukraine along the East-West divide, from ancient divisions to present turmoil.
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