On a History of Ukraine
Magocsi, Paul Robert. A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples - 2nd Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. pp. 894. Paperback.
Honestly this is the definitive starting point for all things Ukraine, especially with the way Magocsi decentralizes Ukraine and depicts its panorama of peoples and cultures. Utterly excellent.
I need to spend more time on this one, reading paragraph by paragraph, later.