02705nam a22003255i 4500 86268 BD-RjUL 20260330124513.0 260330s2023 ii b b 001 0 eng 9781802061789 (BD-RjUL)86268 DLC eng rda DLC BD-RjUL eng 23 947.7 PLR 2023 Plokhy, Serhii, author. 17903 The Russo-Ukrainian War : the return of history / Serhii Plokhy. First edition. Penguin Books, 2023 xxii, 380 pages : ill. ; 20 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "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"-- Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014- Causes 17904 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022. 17905 Ukraine Politics and government 2014- 17906 Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991- 17907 ddc BK 86268 86268 0 0 ddc 0 1 NFIC RUCL RUCL Reading 2026-03-25 International Book Distributor, Dhaka 3500.00 0 947.7 PLR 2023 2026-03-30 00:00:00 C-1 2026-03-30 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC RUCL RUCL GEN 2026-03-25 International Book Distributor, Dhaka 3500.00 0 947.7 PLR 2023 2026-03-30 00:00:00 C-2 2026-03-30 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC RUCL RUCL GEN 2026-03-25 International Book Distributor, Dhaka 3500.00 0 947.7 PLR 2023 2026-03-30 00:00:00 C-3 2026-03-30 BK