Volodymyr Kravchenko is Professor in the Department of History, Classics and Religion at the University of Alberta and Director of the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian studies (CIUS) at the University of Alberta. He is the author of more than 180 publications on modern history and historiography of Ukraine.

• List of mapsList of illustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on TransliterationIntroductionChapter 1. The Steppe BorderlandChapter 2. Town and GownChapter 3. Province in Search of an IdentityChapter 4. City, Empire, NationChapter 5. To the “First Capital” and backChapter 6. Post-Soviet BorderlandChapter 7. The FrontlineConclusionsHistorical timelineBibliographyIndex

“Kharkov/Kharkiv deals with exceptionally important and politically and culturally contested questions of regionalism in Eastern Europe and provides unique insight into the history of Ukraine and to a lesser degree Russia…I know no other author who could write with such authority, depth and nuance a history of the region which was always difficult to “capture” and explain within the limits of existing national narratives” • Serhii Plokhii, Harvard University