title: Editorial
abstract: The remaining contributions of this special issue will appear in an issue of spsr that will appear in the spring of 2020.In his guest editor's introduction, Yekelchyk argues against the widespread Western stereotype of Ukraine as a nation divided into two parts: the pro-Western, nationalistic west and the pro-Russian east.He emphasizes the importance of studying Ukraine's individual regions because their reaction during the 2014 war was determined as much by their diverse historical traditions a
journal: The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review