Introduction : the legacy of history in Russia and the new states of Eurasia / S. Frederick Starr -- On certain mythical beliefs and Russian behaviors / Edward L. Keenan -- The Yugoslav question in the foreign policy of Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century / Sergei A. Romanenko -- Struggle over the borderlands / Alfred J. Rieber -- National identity and foreign policy in the Baltic States / Romuald J. Misiunas -- History as a battleground : Russian-Ukrainian relations and historical consciousness in contemporary Ukraine / Zenon E. Kohut --Historical debates and territorial claims : Cossack mythology in the Russian-Ukrainian border dispute / Serhii M. Plokhy -- Basic factors in the foreign policy of Ukraine : the impact of the Soviet experience / Yaroslav Bilinsky -- Central Asia's foreign relations : a historical survey / Firuz Kazemzadeh -- The rediscovery of Uzbek history and its foreign policy implications / Kadir Z. Alimov -- Historical memory and foreign relations : the Armenian perspective / Richard G. Hovannisian --Azerbaijan : a borderland at the crossroads of history / Tadeusz Swietochowski.