EAN: 9781324051190

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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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