This book will be of interest to anyone working in the field of post-Soviet studies or interested in post-Soviet subjectivities, in that it makes a clear case for others to consider hybridity as an analytical tool in their studies of post-Soviet contexts. (Anna Vozna, Ab Imperio, 2020/4, 336-340) Marco Puleri’s 291-page book reframes the simplified notions of identity clashes in Ukrainian society and demystifies the perception of Ukrainian Russophonia […] The volume can be considered as an indispensable read for both students of social sciences and humanities, as well as for researchers interested in the subject (Géza Barta, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2021) Marco Puleri’s book is a thought-provoking study which for the first time consequently maps the Russophone literature from Ukraine as a hybrid discourse and a liminal cultural practice. (Alexander Chertenko, Ideology and Politics Journal, 2 (16), 2020: 382-391) This book is an excellent attempt in unmasking the current situation of Ukrainian culture. This book will appeal to scholars of both Ukraine and Russia, helping to set the stage for future analysis of identity in greater post-Soviet space. (Dexter Blackwell, H-Net Reviews, July 2021). […] diese Arbeit einen äußerst wichtigen Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Slawistik mit ihren Teildisziplinen dar. Neben seinen konkreten, überaus (er-) kenntnisreichen Analysen, die sowohl für RussistInnen als auch für UkrainistInnen von großem Interesse sein werden, liefert seine Arbeit dringend notwendige Impulse für die konzeptionelle Weiterentwicklung, ja vielleicht sogar Neuausrichtung der zukünftigen Slawistik im Allgemeinen und der Russistik im Besonderen. (Miriam Finkelstein, Anzeiger für Slavische Philologie, (XLVII) 2019, 187-196) A rendere originale e pionieristico questo contributo sono non solo l'oggetto di studi e la cospicua mole di letteratura specialistica con cui intraprende un proficuo dialogo critico, bensì anche il fatto di fornire una prospettiva sui più recenti sviluppi socioculturali in Ucraina dal punto di vista degli intellettuali russofoni e della loro produzione letteraria; il volume costituisce pertanto una lettura che risulterà assai utile non solo per chi si interessi di Ucraina, ma per chiunque voglia conoscere meglio le complesse sfaccettature della realtà culturale dei paesi post-sovietici (Fabio De Leonardis, Nazioni e regioni, 16, 2020, 76-78).

Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction: From (Global) Russian to Ukrainian Culture—and Back Again From Russianness to Russophonia In-between (Literary) Russophonia Recasting “Ukrainianness” through the Prism of “Russianness” The Long Road to Post-Soviet Transition: A Russophone Perspective Part I: From Culture to Politics—Displaced Hybridity/ies (1991–2013) Chapter 1 The Missing Hybridity: Framing the Ukrainian Cultural Space Ukraine: A Laboratory of Political and Cultural Identity/ies Shifting Social Dynamics in Post-Soviet Ukraine New (Old?) Cultural Standards in the Post-Soviet Era Post-Soviet Russophonia in Ukraine: An Intellectual (and Political) Debate In Search of a New Self-Determination Chapter 2 Post-Soviet (Russophone) Ukraine Speaks Back 81 Ukrains’ka Rosiis’komovna literatura versus Rosiis’ka literatura Ukrainy The Self-Identification in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in Russian At the Intersection of Two Cultural Models From Marginality to Minority Chapter 3 A Minor Perspective on National Narrative(s): Deterritorializing Post-Imperial Epistemology Andrei Kurkov: The Displaced Transition in Mass Literature Of Other Spaces (and Of Other Times): Aleksei Nikitin’s Literary Heterotopias Vladimir Rafeenko: The Ukrainian “Magical Realism” Part II: From Politics to Culture—After Revolution of Hybridity (2014–2018) Chapter 4 Hybridity Reconsidered: Ukrainian Border Crossing after the “Crisis” Dialectic of Transition from Post-Soviet to Post-Maidan: Between Old and New Narratives Moving Centripetally: Reconsidering Hybridity The (Political) Acceleration of Cultural Change Chapter 5 Values for the Sake of the (Post-Soviet) Nation Towards Shifting Cultural Policies in the Post-Maidan Era Envisioning Identity Markers after the Ukraine Crisis At the Crossroads between Normative Measures and Blurred Cultural Boundaries in the Post-Soviet Space Chapter 6 Towards a Postcolonial Ethics: Rewriting Ukraine in the “Enemy’s Language” Demistifying Anticolonial Myths: The “Ukrainian Russians” Transgressing the (National) Code: Recasting History and Language in Light of War The End of the Transition? In Place of a Conclusion: The Future of “Russianness” in Post-Maidan Ukraine Bibliography Index