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The sources from which information for this monograph has been taken are published works, official documents, lectures and interviews. The conceptual idea of research evolved as a result of my studies beginning at the Graduate School for Social Research (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science) in 1994-1996 where I greatly benefited from the supervision of professors Janusz Reykowski and Henric Domanski as well as from the seminars of Joanna Kurczewska and Erica Benner. I also participated in the seminars at the University of Warsaw given by Professor Ernest Gellner and gratefully remember his comments on the initial research outline of my PhD thesis. I have also to thank Claire Wallace (Central European University, Prague) and Birgit Muller (Marc Bloch Centre for Social-Anthropological Research, Berlin) for their help in starting up my field–work research among the Cossack Communities in Southern Ukraine in 1995.

During the summer of 1995 the first fieldwork findings were researched together with Austrian sociologist Sabine Haas to whom I am especially indebted for her thoughtful insights, which are reflected in my fieldwork analysis. The fieldwork proceedings at a later stage in 1996-1997 would have been impossible without a grant from the GSSR, so my gratitude is addressed to the Head of the School, Professor Stefan Amsterdamski. I would like also to thank Ukrainian scholars: Professor Natalia Chernysh (University of Lviv), Dr. Olena Bachynska and Dr. Anatoliy Mysechko (University of Odesa), Dr. Olga Philipova (University of Kharkiv) and Dr. Taras Chuhlib (Center for Research of Cossack History, Institute of History, Ukrainian National Academy of Science). Finally, my work could not have been completed without the assistance of many others, whom I also thank wholeheartedly.