Andrew Wilson (born 1961) is a British

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and political scientist specializing in

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, particularly

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

. He is a Senior Policy Fellow at the

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, and Professor in Ukrainian studies at the

School of Slavonic and East European Studies The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES ) is a University College London#Faculties and departments, school of University College London (UCL) specializing in Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and South-Easte ...

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. He wrote ''The Ukrainians: The Story of How a People Became a Nation'' (the first four editions were titled ''The Ukrainians: An Unexpected Nation'') and ''Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World''. Wilson is a member of the

Ukraine Today Ukraine News Today was a Ukraine-based private English language satellite television channel and webcasting service. The channel, which was owned by the Ukrainian 1+1 group and headquartered in Kyiv, presented round-the-clock news bulletins aim ...

media organization's International Supervisory Council. He was born in

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Works

*''Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence'' (with Taras Kuzio), New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994, xiv, 260p. . *''Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith'', Cambridge University Press, 1996, xvii, 300p. Can be searched a
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* ''The Ukrainians: The Story of How a People Became a Nation'', New Haven:

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, 2000, 2015, xviii, 366p. , 2nd edition 2002 , 3rd edition 2009 , 4th edition 2015 , 5th edition 2022 . *''Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World'', Yale University Press, 2005, . *''Ukraine's Orange Revolution'', Yale University Press, 2005, . *''Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship'', Yale University Press, 2012, . *''Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West'', Yale University Press, 2014, .

References

1961 births Living people Slavists Ukrainianists Historians of Ukraine {{England-historian-stub