The first social history of modern Ukraine in English. This book examines the effects of social and political change in twentieth-century Ukraine on the national consciousness of workers, peasants, the intelligentsia, and the political elite.

Chapters include:

• Politics and the National Question in the Post-Shelest Period
• Ukrainian Dissent and Opposition After Shelest
• Literary Politics and Literary Debates in Ukraine, 1971-81
• The Ukrainian Economy in the 1970s Ethno-Demographic Trends in Ukraine in the 1970s

The presentation begins with society on the eve of the 1917 revolution and ends with postwar development in the early 1970s. Co-published with the Macmillan Press.