Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Security in the Institute of International Relations at Prague, Principal Researcher of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society”.

Bohdan Harasymiw is acting as coordinator for political and regional studies at CIUS Press, University of Alberta. Before retiring in 2005, he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary. Trained as a Sovietologist, he specialized in the study of political elites and leadership. In 1989-91, he was seconded to the Government of Canada as an intelligence analyst.

"Dr Oksana Huss is a Research Fellow at Bologna University. She earned her PhD at the University of Duisburg-Essen and held a postdoc position at Leiden University. Huss taught at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy as well as Kyiv School of Economics, and consulted the Council of Europe, EU, UNESCO, and UNODC. She is a co-founder of ICRNetwork.org—the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network.

Dr. Igor Torbakov studied history at Moscow State University and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He is a Senior Fellow at the Uppsala Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies and at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. He was a visiting researcher at the Kennan Institute, at Columbia and Harvard, at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and at the German Council on Foreign Relations. His articles have appeared in Nationalities Papers, Ab Imperio, Demokratizatsiya, The Harriman Review, Transition Studies Review, Slavic & East European Information Resources, Mediterranean Quarterly, Scando-Slavica, Insight Turkey, Slavianovedenie, Turkish Review of Eurasian Studies, and The Finnish Journal on Russian and East European Studies.

"This book explores the Ukrainian crisis using a different approach, not often seen in other works. The authors have attempted to view the Ukrainian crisis not at the level of competition between superpowers and the issue of East and West, but from a social and identity perspective. In this they have been successful. As a result, the reader gains a more thorough understanding of events and better perceives the complexities of the tensions between Ukraine and Russia and, hence, between Russia and the West...."Ghasem Torabi (2018) Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine. The Challenge of Change, Europe-Asia Studies, 70:2, 303-304, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2018.1430225