Description: Russia and Ukraine : Entangled Histories, Diverging States, Paperback by Popova, Maria; Shevel, Oxana, ISBN 1509557377, ISBN-13 9781509557370, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and Ukrainians rallied to defend their country. What are the roots of this war, which has upended the international legal order and brought back the spectre of nuclear escalation? How did these supposedly “brotherly peoples” become each other’s worst nightmare? In Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States, Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel explain how since 1991 Russia and Ukraine diverged politically, ending up on a collision course. Russia slid back into authoritarianism and imperialism, while Ukraine consolidated a competitive political system and pro-European identity. As Ukraine built a democratic nation-state, Russia refused to accept it and came to see it as an “anti-Russia” project. After political and economic pressure proved ineffective, and even counterproductive, Putin went to war to force Ukraine back into the fold of the “Russian world.” Ukraine resisted, determined to pursue European integration as a sovereign state. These irreconcilable goals, rather than geopolitical wrangling between Russia and the West over NATO expansion, are – the authors argue – essential to understanding Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Book Title: Russia and Ukraine : Entangled Histories, Diverging States
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Russia and Ukraine : Entangled Histories, Diverging States
Publisher: Polity Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: Peace, Political
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy
Author: Oxana Shevel, Maria Popova
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
