Cleft Countries: Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 33)

This is the first book to offer a systematic and comparative analysis of
the regional political divisions in post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova.
The study examines voting behavior and political attitudes in two
groups of regions: those which were under Russian, Ottoman, and
Soviet rule; and those which were under Austro-Hungarian, Polish,
Romanian, and Czechoslovak rule until World War I or World War II.
This book attributes the regional political divisions to the differences
in historical experience. This study helps us to better understand regional
cleavages and conflicts, not only in Ukraine and Moldova, but
also in other cleft countries.