The Unpredictable Past?

• Preface
• ix

• "Who Is to Blame?" "What Is to Be Done?" and Other "Cursed" Questions
• 1

• Academic Theories Disproven in Practice: How the Russo-Ukrainian War Challenges Western Perceptions of Eastern Europe
• 25

• Ukrainian Studies in Practice: A Moment of Reflection
• 55

• War, History, and the Temptations of Russian "Exceptionalism"
• 60

• German and Russian Imperialisms, East Central Europe, and the Place of Ukraine
• 76

• Making the Past "Useless"
• 86

• Does Eastern Europe Have a History?
• 91

• War and History: How the Current War May Affect the Writing of History
• 109

• Values and Identities in Ukraine and Russia: Patterns of Convergence and Resistance
• 123

• Russia's Invisible Hand in Western Historical Studies on the Soviet Union
• 145

• Inner Rus', Outer Rus', and Other Matters in Central Europe and Eastern Europe
• 156

• Decolonizing Slavic Studies and Russia's War on Ukraine
• 168

• To Whom the Past Belongs: The History of Ukraine and the Limits of Area Studies
• 188

• Central Europe? Eastern Europe? Habsburg Europe? Where Are We Today?
• 201

• Decolonizing the Past: An Agenda for the Future
• 208

• The Issue of Colonialism in Ukrainian Historiography, 1900s-Early 1930s
• 214

• Reshaping the Field
• 234

• Peregiby (Excesses) of the Imperial Turn?
• 240

• History and Historians in the Perspective of Longue Durée: Some Remarks on the Historiographical Contexts of the War in Ukraine
• 257

• Ukraine, Poland, and the Challenge of the Post-colonial Narrative in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War
• 273

• Making Ukrainian History a Recognized Field
• 289

• Decolonizing East European Studies: Thoughts on Resisting Imperial Doctrine
• 300

• Is There a Russian Sonderweg? Deconstructing a Conservative Utopia
• 313

• Russian Narratives, Ukraine, and US Right-Wing Punditry: How Kremlin Propaganda Used a 2021 Washington Think-Tank Debate
• 326

• The Role of the Historian in Wartime
• 347

• The Political-Technology Takeover of Russian History
• 360

• Toward Epistemic Sovereignty: Decolonization and Ukrainian History
• 386

• Why the Classics? The Heritage of Oskar Halecki, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Malia
• 402

• Bringing the War Back In
• 411

• Soviet Studies in the West, the Russian Fight against America, and the Case of Ukraine
• 424