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Copyright © 1997 Anna Reid
Published in 1999 and 2000 by Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group

First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1997

Published in 2000 in the United States of America by Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80301-2877.

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ISBN-10: 0-8133-3792-5     ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-3792-0     eBook ISBN: 9780786722822

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many people contributed to this book. Especial thanks to Sergey Maksimov, Svetlana Rusnak, and Sasha and Tanya Sparinsky for their help and friendship in Kiev; to Yulya Horoshilova, Roma Ihnatowycz, Vlada Tkach and Roman Waschuk for encouragement and ideas; to Professor Timothy Colton, Dr Peter Duncan, Prince Jezzar Giray, Dr Lubomyr Hajda, Simon Hemans, Professor Geoffrey Hosking, Dr Daniel Kaufmann, Professor John LeDonne, Professor Richard Pipes, Professor Roman Szporluk, Professor Adam Ulam and Dr Andrew Wilson for illuminating interviews; to Jonathan Ford, for his ruthless and invaluable critique of the manuscript; to Chiara Clothier, Julian Ellison, Jean de Sola Pool and Chris and Annabel Wrenn for putting me up; and to the patient staffs of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies library, the London Library and the British Library. Thanks too to Peter Robinson of Curtis Brown and Rebecca Wilson of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, without whose enthusiastic support this book would not have been written, and lastly to my mother and stepfather, Sara and Sandy Milne, and husband Charles, who bore my obsession with Ukraine with fortitude.