title: Preface
abstract: My original acknowledgment reflected the anxiety I felt at the timeas I watched troops amass, I was scared to think that my book was no longer an exercise in poststructuralist theory and empirics.A Soviet-era song from World War II goes "On June twenty-second, exactly at four o'clock, Kyiv was bombed, we were told that the war has begun."As trivial as it might seem, this song reflects a deep discomfort and trauma that still exists in the region scarred by World War II.It was unthinkable that a l
journal: Manchester University Press eBooks