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Geography, identity, nationality: mental maps of contested Russian-Ukrainian borderlands

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Steven Seegel*
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Department of History, University of Northern Colorado, Box 116, Greeley, CO, 80639, USA Email: steven.seegel@unco.edu

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