Ukranian Collection.

Early history --The making of modern Ukraine -- Soviet Ukraine -- Between Stalin and Hitler -- Ukraine in the Post-Stalin Period -- Khrushchev and measured de-Stalinization -- Shelest and renewed Ukrainian assertiveness -- Shelest's removal -- Shcherbytsky and 'normalization' -- Stagnation -- Gorbachev, Chornobyl and the Writers' Challenge -- Gorbachev takes over but Shcherbytsky remains -- The first glimmers of glasnost -- The Chornobyl nuclear disaster and the political fallout -- The writers broaden their campaign -- The CPU's conservatism comes under fire -- The struggle for greater glasnost -- The writers defy the CPU leadership -- The Rebirth of Independent Public and Cultural Life -- The Ukrainian Catholics emerge from the underground -- Unofficial groups in Lviv and Kyiv become catalysts -- The widening rift between the writers and the CPU leadership -- Defending the bastion of stagnation -- National Renewal -- Facing up to the enormity of the task -- The affirmation of national identity -- Independent public and religious activity -- The Growth of Democratic Opposition -- Baltic echoes -- Ten days that shook Lviv -- The Nineteenth Party Conference -- Hopes raised -- Hopes dashed -- The Birth of Rukh -- The writers launch a new effort to create a popular movement -- The emergence of Kravchuk -- The battle over the Popular Movement's programme -- The democratic opposition makes headway -- Psychological and Political Breakthrough -- Victories in the first multi-candidate elections -- Rukh takes hold in Western Ukraine.