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Odesa was one of the largest and most important cities in the Russian Empire. Numerous studies have addressed the economic development and social structure of Odesa, but there are some gaps in the knowledge of the social stratification during the nineteenth century. Although most studies of the social and economic histories of Ukraine provide qualitative or highly aggregated quantitative data, micro-data at the level of individuals and households in Ukraine are rare. This paper provides new micro-data from the 1897 census in Odesa. It is the first attempt to code occupations of Odesa workers according to the Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations (HISCO). Of the 2,435 individuals in the 457 sampled households analyzed, 1,443 individuals demonstrate 86 of the unique occupations coded with the international HISCO scheme. The analysis compares these HISCO occupations by the social estates, the gender, and the language of the surveyed individuals. The study confirms several old hypotheses but also unearths new findings regarding the number of urban females involved in service and sales occupations.

The collapse of the USSR resulted in religious revivals in all former republics, including Ukraine. Religion provided security and emotional support. It legitimized political elites, while some churches also offered public goods, substituting the state. With time, religion became a crucial component of the national identities. Despite many similarities to other primely Orthodox countries, Ukraine has been unique in its religious landscape. Several Orthodox jurisdictions have competed for the status of the national church, which allowed religious fragmentation in all regions of Ukraine. This paper shows the importance of religious pluralism in Ukraine during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021.

AbstractResilience of local communities (territorial hromadas) is an increasingly salient matter in the academic and policy debate on the factors which have determined Ukraine's resilience to Russia's 2022 invasion. Building on existing literature on institutional resilience and its predictors, this article explains the ability of Ukrainian self‐governed municipalities to withstand the threats to institutional stability stemming from the invasion. First, it uses an exploratory qualitative design to operationalize the concept of resilience and its predictors with an account of varying experiences of Ukrainian hromadas during the full‐scale invasion (e.g., hromadas near the frontline and in the rear). Next, it presents data from open sources and the results of a regression analysis to test the impact of various groups of predictors on hromadas' resilience to the full‐scale invasion. Our models show a significant relationship between hromadas' resilience and geographical, politico‐administrative and economic predictors influenced by the outcomes of the decentralization reform conducted in Ukraine since 2014.

Invited experts who study and teach economic history in American, Romanian, Swedish, and Ukrainian universities answer questions about the recent trends and perspectives in the economic history of Eastern Europe. They demonstrate how the relationship between history and other disciplines developed in Eastern European scholarship. They explain the reasons for the relatively underdeveloped scholarly community of the field in the region. Finally, they talk about the applicable theories and concepts which could challenge Gerschenkron's theoretical framework when discussing the history of economy and business in Eastern Europe. Authors mostly accept the suggested statement that the economic history of Eastern Europe is institutionally underdeveloped if compared with Western scholarship. At the same time, they see the situation as a good opportunity for the development of new research projects. The authors emphasize the necessity to "learn the language of other disciplines" as well as to develop skills in data analysis. They also point out that to explain the global economic transformations in history, working with archival sources and understanding the context are as important as the application of economic theories and quantitative analysis.

Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction. The Challenge of Labelling the Donbas War -- Part I. The Internal Dimension of the Conflict -- Hybrid War in Times of Geopolitics? On the Interpretation and Characterization of the Donbas Conflict -- The Great Patriotic War 2.0. An Analysis of Collective Violence in Eastern Ukraine after the Euromaidan Revolution -- Part II. Russia's Role in the Donbas -- Enough with Donbas "Civil War" Narratives? Identifying the Main Combatant Leading "the Bulk of the Fighting" -- Infiltration, Instruction, Invasion. Russia's War in the Donbas -- Part III. Integrating Domestic and External Factors -- Delegated Interstate War. Introducing an Addition to Armed Conflict Typologies -- Internal Conflict or Hidden Aggression. Competing Accounts and Expert Assessments of the War in Ukraine's Donbas -- The Donbas and Social Science. Terra Incognita? -- Conclusion. Making Sense of Multicausality.

Intro -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From "the Ukraine" to "Ukraine" -- Chapter 1 Ukraine's Political Development after Independence -- Chapter 2 The Development of Ukraine's Private Sector -- Chapter 3 Class Divisions and Social Inequality in Independent Ukraine -- Chapter 4 The Development of Ukraine's Energy Sector -- Chapter 5 Ukraine's Media: A Field Where Power Is Contested -- Chapter 6 Ukrainian Art of the Independence Era: Transitions and Aspirations -- Chapter 7 Thirty Years of Religious Pluralism in Ukraine -- Chapter 8 The Development of National Identities in Ukraine -- Chapter 9 Democracy in Ukraine -- Contributors -- Index.