“What Does Ukraine Think?” – published by European Council on Foreign Relations, edited by Andrew Wilson, Reader in Ukrainian studies at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European studies, University College, London, dated May 2015. 109 pages, plus brief details of the authors

This booklet is divided into four sections, dealing with Politics and Identity Issues, the View from the Various Regions, Rhetoric and Reality, and finally Can Ukraine Reform? The foreword is by a Ukrainian novelist, Andrey Kurkov, and the introduction by Andrew Wilson. The ten essays that follow are all by Ukrainians. Two of them are located in Berlin and Vienna respectively; the others are all living in Ukraine.

The contributions cover many aspects that western media have mostly overlooked. They explain how the solidarity of the long Maidan uprising and the flight of President Yanukovich led to a new sense of purpose and identity. They throw light on how external destabilization and support for separatism have slowed the process of reform and helped Ukrainian oligarchs to survive. Recommended reading.