Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914

Cover\nLABORATORY OF MODERNITY\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nTables\nPreface: What Can Ukraine Teach Us about the Modern World?\nMaps\nPART ONE: UKRAINE 1772–1831\n	1 Between Two Empires\n		The Age of Enlightened Absolutism and Its Legacy\n		Dynastic Empires Change Space\n		The Rise of Bureaucracy\n		How to Tackle Diversity?\n	2 From Enlightenment to Romanticism\n		Ukrainians as Empire Builders\n		Dr Frankenstein’s Laboratory of Nationalism\n		Heritage Gatherers, Glory Hunters\n		Ukraine Begins in the East\n		Old Regime under Threat: Poles and Decembrists\nPART TWO: UKRAINE 1831–1876\n	3 The Age of Romantic Nationalism\n		Another Ukraine, Other “Ukrainians”\n		Inventing an Ancient and Holy City: The Rise of Kyiv\n		The Making of One Nationality is the Unmaking of Others\n		From Serf to Prophet: The Improbable Case of Taras Shevchenko\n		Was There a Revolution in Ukraine in 1848?\n	4 The Age of Reforms\n		Tradition vs. Modernization\n		Liberal Interlude in Russia: The Reformers\n		Liberal Interlude in Russia: The Reformed\n		The Birth of the Intelligentsia from the Spirit of Reform\n	5 The Empire Strikes Back\n		Poles Rebel, Act II\n		“There was not, is not, and cannot be” a Ukrainian Language\n		Fathers and Sons, Ukrainian Style\n		From Austria to Austria-Hungary\nPART THREE: UKRAINE 1876–1914\n	6 Galician Exceptionalism\n		Ruthenians in Search of a Nation\n		The Ukrainian Piedmont\n		From Dawn to Dusk of the New Era\n		Whose City Was It? Lviv vs. Lwów\n	7 New Society, Old Empire\n		Nation of Peasants: Social Mobility and Immobility\n		The Curse and Blessing of Resources\n		Was Ukraine Russia’s Colony?\n		Society at the Crossroads\n		Live Fast, Die Young: Birth, Death, Family, and Gender\n		The West is the Best? Oil Boom, Rural Poverty, and Emigration\n		Imperial Pecking Order: Peoples of Ukraine\n	8 Politics and Culture between Empire and Nation\n		The World(s) of Fin-de-Siècle and Beyond\n		The Dubious Blessing of Illiteracy\n		When Ukraine Learned to Read: Non-Readers into Readers\n		Between Theater and Terrorism\n		“People do not exist for States”\n		The Un/Solved Ukrainian Dilemmas: Epilogue\nTimeline\nNotes\nBibliographic Essay\nIndex