ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  

 

Many people contributed to both editions of this book. On the first, especial thanks to Sergey Maksimov, Svetlana Rusnak, and Sasha and Tanya Sparinsky for their help and friendship in Kiev; to Yulya Khoroshilova, 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 Le-Donne, 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.

Writing Part Two of this new edition, I was fortunate to be able to pick the wise and well-stocked brains of Duncan Allen, Robert Brinkley, Laurence Broyd, Robert and Larissa Homans, Marta Kolomayets, Andriy Kyrchiv, Yuri Lukanov, Ihor Olekhov, Nick Piazza, Roland Smith and Andrei Terekhov. My grateful thanks to all of them.

In the Donbass, Lyudmila Bortok of Donbass TV, Sergei Garmash of the online paper ostrov.org, Professors Vladimir Kirpen and Ihor Todorov of Donetsk University, Dr Serhiy Telizhenko of Luhansk University, and Katerina Zhemchuzhnykova of ngo.donetsk.ua were kind enough to give me interviews. Since then, they have all become refugees. So has the Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, who it was an honour to meet again. Thanks for organisational help go to Katerina Malofeyeva and Viktoria Moroz, and especially to Vladimir Podmogilny.

In Lviv, Ben Kern and Mariana Kuchlevska of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Andriy Kyrchiv, Mariana Savka and Kateryna Mikhalitsyna of the Old Lion Publishing House, Bohdan Shumylovych of the Center for Urban History, Olga Sivak of Citadel Capital and Olha Zarichynska of the Ukrainian Catholic University all helped me to rediscover their beautiful city. Vika Sibir looked after me in her equally lovely Odessa, and Oksana Parafeniuk set up trips to Slovyansk and Dnipropetrovsk.

Yuliya Andrusiv, Antony Beevor, Peter Bejger, Marina Denysenko, Jim Donnet, Andrew Hunder, John Peet, Kate Smith and Noah Sneider were all generous with contacts and advice. The Eurasia Circle, run by Edward Salazar, has been a rich source of ideas and information, as have a series of emails written by Robert Homans from Kiev throughout the recent crisis. Lastly, thank you as ever to Sasha and Sveta Sparinksy for their unfailing kindness and hospitality.