Istoriia Ukrainy [Ukraine. A History]

British scholar, diplomat, politician and businessman, William Edward David Allen, has conducted a thorough geopolitical analysis of the Ukrainian region from Kievan Rus' to the outbreak of World War II. The development of Ukraine and its disputed borders can only be understood when considering the relations between it and Lithuania, Poland, Austria-Hungary, the Scandinavian countries, the Ottoman Empire, the Mongol khanates in the Crimea, the Cossacks and Hetmans and, of course, Tsarist Russia, and later between Germany and the Soviet Union . Allen's story is interesting in terms of the national question, which plagues multinational empires, including all of Ukraine's neighboring states, past and present, and which is still the cause of tension in Ukraine.