02593nam a22003015i 450000100060000000300080000600500170001400800410003102000180007203500190009004000320010904100080014108200240014910000290017324500710020225000190027326000250029230000370031733600260035433700280038033800270040850400520043552016260048765000390211365000390215265100440219165100560223586268BD-RjUL20260330124513.0260330s2023    ii b     b    001 0 eng    z9781802061789  a(BD-RjUL)86268  aDLCbengerdacDLCdBD-RjUL  aeng  223a947.7bPLR 20231 aPlokhy, Serhii,eauthor.14aThe Russo-Ukrainian War :bthe return of history /cSerhii Plokhy.  aFirst edition.  bPenguin Books,c2023  axxii, 380 pages :bill. ;c20 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references  and index.  a"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"-- 0aRusso-Ukrainian War, 2014-xCauses 0aRussian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022. 0aUkrainexPolitics and governmenty2014- 0aRussia (Federation)xPolitics and governmenty1991-