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1. Introduction and Overview

Author : Oleh Havrylyshyn

Published in: The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

The Greek settlements Strabo refers to were trading centres on the northern coast of the Black Sea, trading with the hinterland territories of present day Ukraine. This commerce represents the earliest European orientation, and has a continuity in Ukraine’s entire history inasmuch as the products taken from this hinterland—grains, honey, wax, furs, animals, fresh-water fish—were, at that time, already making Ukrainian territories a ‘breadbasket for Europe’.

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Recent archeological evidence from shipwrecks in the Black Sea provides more solid evidence of the pattern and structure of exports from the hinterland north of the Pontus Euxinus. Hiebert (2001) discusses one of the joint archaeological projects in Black Sea waters seeking to establish trade interactions of Black Sea cultures in antiquity. The find off the Bulgarian coast in 2003 is described in www.turks/us, Hiebert op.cit., p. 11. The project referenced aims to document the pattern of trade as well (p. 14). Gabrielsen and Lund (2007) contains several chapters dealing with the nature of trade between the Black Sea region and Greece.

This is the Ukrainian spelling. In Western writing the Russian spelling is often used: chernozem.

Plokhy (2015) develops this theme throughout his recent book on Ukraine; the role as second but junior republic is especially emphasized in his Chapter 24, ‘The Second Soviet Republic’.

Fritz (2007, p. 112) notes that opinion polls related to the referendum on independence in December 1991 strongly showed the over 90 % of support was at least partly based on the economic expectation.

The Ukrainian term was even stronger: kovbasna polityka (sausage politics).

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Fritz, V. (2007). State-building: A comparative study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia. Budapest: Central European University Press.

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Title: Introduction and Overview
Author: Oleh Havrylyshyn
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Book: The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-57689-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-57690-3

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57690-3_1