1. The historical roots of modern Ukraine
2. Imperial bureaucrats and nation builders
3. Ukraine enters the age of mass politics
4. The Ukrainian revolution
5. Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s : the Ukrainization drive
6. Stalinism : famine and terror
7. Western Ukrainian lands between the wars : the birth of radical nationalism
8. Nazi occupation and the Soviet victory
9. Ukraine under Stalin's heirs
10. From Chernobyl to the Soviet collapse