REVIEWS I83 Hoare, Quintin and Malcolm, Noel (eds). Bookson Bosnia.The Bosnian Institute,London, I999.Xi+ 207 Pp. Index. fio.oo (paperback). LIKE all wars, the war in Bosnia destroyed lives, families, towns, cultural monuments, and social fabrics. It also gave rise to an industry of scholars, decision-makers,diplomats,observers,proselytizers,journalists,poets, moralists , military personnel, NGOs and international organizations seeking to document and analysethe variousfactsof the conflict. One can only applaud the effortsof Quintin Hoare and Noel Malcom to create a relativelyinclusive and orderlyinventoryof the many volumes createdby these efforts. BooksonBosnialimits itself to full volumes that have appeared in the past decade. Only those in western languages are included, and of these, only a handful in languages other than English. Understandably, but perhaps unfortunately, articles appearing in either magazines or scholarlyjournals have not been inventoried, such that a significantcorpus of seriouswork on the area lies entirely outside the purview of the bibliography. Primary documents and sources also fall outside the scope of the listings, again legitimatelybut unfortunately. The book is divided into two parts. The firsthalf is basicallyan inventory which, while not comprehensive,liststhe majorand many of the minor recent volumes on Bosnia with short commentaries on their contents and perspectives ;a smatteringof videos, picturebooks, and literaryrepresentationsis also included. Although Bookson Bosniabills itself as a 'critical' bibliography, 'polemical' might be a more appropriate adjective, given the distinctly dismissivetone takentowardsworksthatinterpretthe conflictin wayscounter to that of the editors. That perspective, which views the war as entirely and solely due to a Belgrade-ledproject to create a Greater Serbia (mistakenlyor intentionallyabettedby thewesternpowers)comes througheven more clearly in the second part of the book, which consistsof lengthierreviewsof a selected (on what basis, we are not told) set of the volumes listed in the firsthalf. The worksreviewedin thislattersectionvaryin focusand perspective,and include journialists'accounts, memoirs, edited volumes, and academic analyses from severaldisciplines.Ifthe samplingiseclectic, the reviewsarequitepredictable: hatchetjobs are dutifullyperformedon the memoirs of David Owen ('seldom have all the syndromes of [. . .] retrospective selfjustification been so thoroughly exposed to public view') and Michael Rose (whose 'extreme ignorance is apparentlyrevealed by his statementsthat Bosnia was ruled by the Turks for 500 years when 'the correct figure is415'), Susan Woodward's studyis notablelargelyfor 'itsrevelationof the degree of ideological sympathy forSerbiannationalistaspirationsinthehighestechelonsoftheUN operation', and Norman Cigar'sGenocide inBosniais the 'one workwhich explainsthe real nature of the conflict'. Consequently, one finishes the volume feeling better acquainted with the editors'perspective (and invective) on the war in Bosnia than with the volumes nominallybeing described. Nevertheless, Bookson Bosniais an extremely helpful compilation of the major secondary source material that has appeared in the past decade, and for that reason, it is a signficant research tool, even for readers already acquaintedwith the area. If the editorializingbecomes ratherheavy-handed, i84 SEER, 79, I, 2001 in most cases it is quite well informed, and the bibliographyitself is synoptic and well-presented. Department ofPolitical Science ELLENT. CoMIsso University ofCalifornia, SanDiego Nahaylo, Bohdan. The Ukrainian Resurgence. Hurst and Company, London, I999. xix + 554 pp. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Illustrations. ?450.o; ? I6.95. DESPITE a recent upsurge in the number of publications on contemporary Ukraine, books on the subject are still few and far between. Hence any new publication is a welcome addition. Written in a genre of journalism and contemporaryhistory,in the author'sown words TheUkrainian Resurgence aims to 'serveas a surrogateconcise politicalhistoryof modern Ukraine and offera tentativepictureof the new independent Ukrainianstate'(p. xvi). The firstchapter concisely sketchesout the firstten centuries of Ukraine's history. The scope of the second chapter is considerablynarrower;focusing on the post-Stalin years in Ukraine, it contains a detailed survey of national Communism, dissident movement and their suppression by Moscow and indigenous Communists. Of the remaining sixteen chapters, no fewer than eleven aredevoted to perestroika'seventfulyearsof I985-9 I, whereasthe last four chaptersoffera comprehensive, although succinct, overview of developments in post-Soviet Ukraine between I992-96. The brief postscriptbrings the narrativeupto I998. The bookoffersa self-containednarrative,something which is also reflected in the brevity of the bibliography. Nahaylo does not engage with existing literatureon Ukraine, nor does he attempt to place the trajectoryof Ukraine'sstate-buildinginto a widercomparativeperspective. The book meticulously chronicles the prolonged struggle for, at first, nationalrevivaland, then, independence...