"Explores Ukraine's contemporary conflict and complicated history of ethnic identity, and it does do so by weaving questions of the country's fraught relations with its former imperial master, Russia, throughout the narrative." .

Chapter 1: Why Ukraine? -- Chapter 2: The Land and the People -- Chapter 3: The Making of Modern Ukraine -- Chapter 4: Ukraine after Communism -- Chapter 5: The Orange Revolution and the EuroMaidan -- Chapter 6: Russia's Annexation of the Crimea and the War in the Donbas -- Chapter 7: Building a New Ukraine in a Globalized World.