EAN: 9781324051190

THE RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR - SERHII PLOKHY GEBUNDEN

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.

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