Ukraine Between Empire and Globalization

Acknowledgements

I am deeply indebted to my academic supervisors:

• Prof. Dr. Martin Aust (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universtität Munich, Germany),
• Dr. Allan Cooper (Otterbein University, Ohio, USA),
• Prof. Dr. Michael Hagemeister (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universtität Munich, Germany),
• Dr. Debora Halbert (Otterbein University, Ohio, USA),
• Prof. Dr. Julia Herzberg (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universtität Munich, Germany),
• Prof. Valentyna Lenska (Krivyi Rih National University, Ukraine),
• Prof. Dr. Martin Schulze-Wessel (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universtität Munich, Germany),

for their support and expertise in Eastern European history. The combined knowledge, resources and enthusiasm of all these renowned scholars was invaluable to me.