title: Preface
abstract: This preface is written at the height of the Crimean crisis.Russia's annexation of Crimea challenges not only Ukraine's revolutionary government but also the European Union and the United States of America.In some respects, the constellation is reminiscent of pre-1989 frontlines and it is no wonder that many commentators draw analogies between the present situation and the Cold War.The omnipresence of Cold War semantics is hard to ignore: particularly fitting, of course, for a country that etymo
journal: Berghahn Books