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"An authoritative history of Europe's largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Gates of Europe. Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war-and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already apparent and possible future consequences. Though the current war began eight years before the all-out assault-on February 27, 2014, when Russian armed forces seized the building of the Crimean parliament-the roots of this conflict can be traced back even earlier, to post-Soviet tensions and imperial collapse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a broad historical context and an examination of Ukraine and Russia's ideas and cultures, as well as domestic and international politics, Plokhy reveals that while this new Cold War was not inevitable, it was predictable. Ukraine, Plokhy argues, has remained central to Russia's idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post-Cold War international order, and a resurgence of populist nationalism, Ukraine is now more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe"--

UKRAINE--HISTORY --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS--UKRAINE --- Since 2000 --- UKRAINE--HISTORY--RUSSIAN INTERVENTION, 2022-

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UKRAINE--FOREIGN RELATIONS--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS--UKRAINE --- UKRAINE--STRATEGIC ASPECTS --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--STRATEGIC ASPECTS --- UKRAINE--NATIONAL SECURITY

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History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.' Drawing from his perilous career investigating the frontiers of the Russian empire, Zygar reveals how 350 years of propaganda, bad historical scholarship, folk tales and fantasy spurred his nation into war with Ukraine. How did a German monk's fear of the Ottoman Empire drive him to invent the fiction of a united Russian world? How did corny spy novels about a 'Soviet James Bond' inspire Vladimir Putin to join the KGB? How did Alexander Pushkin's admiration for a poem by Lord Byron end with him slandering the legendary chief of the Cossacks? And how did Putin underestimate a rising TV comic named Volodymyr Zelensky, failing to see that his satire had become deadly serious, and that his country would be a joke no longer? A noted expert on the Kremlin with unparalleled access to hundreds of players in the current conflict - from politicians to oligarchs, gangsters to comedians (not least Zelensky himself) - Zygar chronicles the power struggles from which today's politics grew, and digs out the essential truths from behind layers of seductive legend. By surveying the strange, complex record of Russo-Ukrainian relations, War and Punishment reveals exactly how the largest nation on Earth lost its senses. A work of history can't undo the past or transform the present, but sometimes it can shape the future. In fact, that's how the story begins.

RUSSIA--FOREIGN RELATIONS --- USSR --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS--UKRAINE --- DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS --- INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- UKRAINE

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This book examines the causes and consequences of the Ukraine crisis, with a special focus on Russia's relations with the West. Towards that end, it brings together international relations scholars and area specialists. Issues covered include : the evolution of EU-Russia and US-Russia relations, the role of strategic culture and ontological insecurities in the formation of Russian foreign policy, the role of hybrid warfare in Russian military policy, the geopolitical drivers of Russia's Ukraine policy, and a discussion of the decision-making dynamics that led to Russia's intervention in eastern Ukraine. The contributors employ different theoretical approaches and offer partly complementary and partly competing analyses. In so doing, this book seeks to stimulate dialogue between different positions and advance our understanding of a topic that will shape the European security order for many years to come.

UKRAINE CONFLICT, 2014 --- -CRIMEA (UKRAINE)--ANNEXATION TO RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- UKRAINE--FOREIGN RELATIONS--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS--UKRAINE --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS

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"The Ukrainian crisis presented the gravest threat to peace and stability in Europe since the Second World War. The crisis attracted much international attention, yet little is known about how and why the EU and Russia ended up 'competing' over Ukraine. The authors unravel the deeper origins of the crisis by adopting a long-term perspective to the 'integration offers' presented to Ukraine by Russia and the EU and the choices made by Ukraine's leaders. They analyse these choices showing the key role of Ukraine's political regime in interpreting and balancing between the offers made to Ukraine. The book provides a succinct and accessible study of the complex background and multiple dimensions of the crisis, while also dispelling prevailing oversimplifications and misinterpretations. It explores the key implications of the crisis for Ukraine's interactions with the EU and Russia"--

Ukraine --- European Union countries --- Russia (Federation) --- Foreign relations --- History --- Politics and government --- Relations --- Ukraine - Foreign relations - 1991 --- -Ukraine - Foreign relations - European Union countries --- European Union countries - Foreign relations - Ukraine --- Ukraine - Foreign relations - Russia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation) - Foreign relations - Ukraine