The History of Ukraine. The Southern Russian Lands from the First Kyiv Princes to Joseph Stalin

British scholar, diplomat, politician, and businessman, William Edward David Allen conducted a thorough geopolitical analysis of the Ukrainian region from Kievan Rus to the beginning of World War II. The development of Ukraine and its disputed borders can only be understood by examining the relationships between it and Lithuania, Poland, Austria-Hungary, the Scandinavian countries, the Ottoman Empire, the Mongol khanates in Crimea, the Cossacks and hetmans, and of course, Tsarist Russia, and later between Germany and the Soviet Union. Allen's history is interesting in terms of the national question that plagues multinational empires, including all of Ukraine's neighboring states, past and present, and which continues to be a source of tension in Ukraine.