I. On the Pontic Frontier. Chapter 1. The edge of the world ; Chapter 2. The advent of the Slavs ; Chapter 3. Vikings on the Dnieper ; Chapter 4. Byzantium North ; Chapter 5. The keys to Kyiv ; Chapter 6. Pax Mongolica --

II. East meets West. Chapter 7. The making of Ukraine ; Chapter 8. The Cossacks ; Chapter 9. Eastern reformations ; Chapter 10. The Great Revolt ; Chapter 11. The partitions ; Chapter 12. The verdict of Poltava --

III. Between the Empires. Chapter 13. The new frontiers ; Chapter 14. The books of the genesis ; Chapter 15. The porous border ; Chapter 16. On the move ; Chapter 17. The unfinished revolution --

IV. The wars of the world. Chapter 18. The birth of a nation ; Chapter 19. A shattered dream ; Chapter 20. Communism and Nationalism ; Chapter 21. Stalin's fortress ; Chapter 22. Hitler's Lebensraum ; Chapter 23. The victors --

V. The road to independence. Chapter 24. The Second Soviet Republic ; Chapter 25. Good bye, Lenin! ; Chapter 26. The Independence Square ; Chapter 27. The price of freedom ; Chapter 28. A new dawn --

Epilogue: The meanings of history --

Historical timeline --

Who's who in Ukrainian history --

Glossary.