Ukraine’s Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited. Edited by Olena Palko and Manuel Ferez Gil.

This collection of documents, conversation pieces, scholarly essays, pedagogy, and political commentary regarding Ukraine's past and present, could not be more timely, indeed urgent!Inspired by the horrors brought on every day by Russia's brutal invasion of 2022, and before that the seizure of Crimea and much of Donbas in 2014, it constitutes a pointed and well-informed intervention into the present, past, and future of Ukraine.The volume functions simultaneously on many different levels, and it speaks to multiple-albeit intersecting-Anglophone audiences (colleagues, students, pundits, the general public), all the while accommodating a remarkably broad spectrum of opinions, all of which nevertheless coalesces around a single common agenda: the irreducible ontology of Ukraine as a large, sovereign, European nation.in Ukraine's identity politics.This constitutes a remarkable development, and many readers, I suspect, would like to know more about his persona and his role in effectuating this very positive evolution.Quibbles aside, the volume is impressive, timely beyond words, rigorous, and enormously informative.May it have a large and devoted readership.And may Ukraine have peace, freedom, and democracy.