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Author(s): Roman Szporluk
Book Pages: 553 - Publish Date: 2020-02-24 - Publisher: Hoover Press
Description: This book chronicles the final two decades in the history of the Soviet Union and presents a story that is often lost in the standard interpretations of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Although there were numerous reasons for the collapse of communism, it did not happen—as it may have seemed to some—overnight. Indeed, says Roman Szporluk, the root causes go back even ...
Book Pages: 176 - Publish Date: 2019-04-30 - Publisher: Routledge
Description: This book is a unique contribution to scholarship on the sources of the conflict in Ukraine. The volume brings together writers from Russia, Ukraine, Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia, many of whom attended a gathering of scholars and activists from all over Ukraine, held in Yalta, Crimea, just after the conflict in Eastern Ukraine erupted. Challenging both the demonization of Russia...
Author(s): Paul D'Anieri
Book Pages: 387 - Publish Date: 2023-03-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Description: In this fully revised and updated in-depth analysis of the war in Ukraine, Paul D'Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and the West that emerged with the collapse of the Soviet Union and eventually resulted in Russia's invasion in 2022. Proceeding chronologically, this book shows how Ukraine's separation from Russia in 1991, at the time called...
Book Pages: 546 - Publish Date: 2015-04-23 - Publisher: Lexington Books
Description: Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere discusses modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and elsewhere, and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. The contributors—who include three Nobel Laureates—strive to analyze and understand the role of culture in modernization, particularly relevant to Russian culture as tensions between Russia and the West heighten to levels not seen since the Cold War.
Author(s): Elias Götz
Book Pages: 150 - Publish Date: 2018-12-07 - Publisher: Routledge
Description: This book examines the causes and consequences of the Ukraine crisis, with a special focus on Russia’s relations with the West. Towards that end, it brings together international relations scholars and area specialists. Issues covered include: the evolution of EU–Russia and US–Russia relations, the role of strategic culture and ontological insecurities in the formation of Russian foreign pol...
Book Pages: 216 - Publish Date: 2015 - Publisher: Unknown
Description: None
Author(s): Serhii Plokhy
Book Pages: Unknown - Publish Date: 2006-09-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Description: This book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations and the essential similarities or differences between their cultures. It traces the origins of the modern Russian...
Author(s): Daniel Kenny
Book Pages: 0 - Publish Date: 2022-09-30 - Publisher: Unknown
Description: Strain over the ukraine-russia emergency has been stewing for over two months, with optional undertakings to decide the issue giving little signs of progress. Russia has more fighters on its limit with ukraine, beginning western alarms of an unavoidable assault. Moscow, which has at least a time or two denied it means to assault and says it is responding to antagonism by nato accomplices, pardons ...
Book Pages: 506 - Publish Date: 2017-12-05 - Publisher: Springer
Description: This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – the epicentre of Soviet war suffering, and the heartland of the Soviet war myth. ...
Author(s): Taras Kuzio
Book Pages: 260 - Publish Date: 2007-03-13 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
Description: The Crimea was the only region of Ukraine in the 1990s where separatism arose and inter-ethnic conflict potentially could have taken place between the Ukrainian central government, ethnic Russians in the Crimea, and Crimean Tatars. Such a conflict would have inevitably drawn in Russia and Turkey. Russia had large numbers of troops in the Crimea within the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine als...