Laboratory Work: Historian Serhiy Bilenkiy Tells How Ukraine Became Modern and at the Same Time Ukraine. “Babel” Publishes Excerpt From New Book

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Serhiy Bilenkiy, a Ukrainian and Canadian historian, researcher at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, wrote (in English) a book about the era, which appears fully studied: “The Laboratory of Modernity. Ukraine between Empire and Nation (1772—1914). The “long nineteenth century” (that is, the nineteenth century, which actually begins in the XVIII and ends in the XX), the modernization of Ukraine by two empir…