Rebounding identities : the politics of identity in Russia and Ukraine / edited by Dominique Arel and Blair A. Ruble.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: theorizing the politics of cultural identities in Russia and Ukraine / Dominique Arel -- The saliency of cultural cleavages. Theorizing nationalist separatism in Russia / Elise Giuliano ; Institutional legacies and language revival in Ukraine / Alexandra Hrycak ; "Russian Islam" and the politics of religious multiculturalism in Russia / Katherine Graney ; Migration, hostility, and ethnopolitical mobilization : Russia's anti-Chinese legacies in formation / Mikhail A. Alexseev -- The struggle to define a category. Beauplan's prism : represented contact zones and nineteenth-century mapping practices in Ukraine / Steven J. Seegel ; Arbiters of the free conscience : confessional categorization and religious transfer in Russia, 1905-1917 / Paul W. Werth ; Nation building and refugee protection in the post-Soviet region / Oxana Shevel -- Changing attributes. Explaining the appeal of evangelicalism in Ukraine / Catherine Wanner ; Soviet nationalities policy and assimilation / Dmitry Gorenburg ; The influence of Tatar language revival on the development of divergent referential worlds / Helen M. Faller -- Conclusion : unending transition / Blair A. Ruble.