2022 Invasion of Ukraine

Sarotte explores NATO expansion after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Stent, Professor Emerita and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian & East European Studies, Georgetown University, examines the impact of Russia's "turbulent past" on both Putin and the "particularly fraught" foreign relations between Russia and Ukraine.

Yale historian Timothy Snyder's history of Eastern Europe during the interwar years sets the stage for the current conflict (2014- ).

Written by the respected historian of Russia, Vlad Zubok, Department of International History, London School of Economics (formerly affiliated with Temple University)

"This book is a collection of essays by prominent historians from Austria, Germany, Ukraine, Poland and Russia, who undertook a thorough and detailed study of one as yet inadequately researched aspect of the First World War--the occupation of Ukraine by the Central Powers in 1918. The book provides a new and fresh perspective on the historical context of Ukraine’s struggle for independence following the First World War" (book jacket).

"Here [Plokhy] expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's complex relations with Russia and the West, the burden of tragedies such as the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and Ukraine's contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.... Eloquent in style and comprehensive in approach, the essays collected here reveal the roots of the ongoing political, cultural, and military conflict in Ukraine, the largest country in Europe" (book jacket).

This beautiful and important city in Western Ukraine, once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is now a focal point between East and West in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The author "examines a fundamental layer in the making of modern Lviv by focusing on its World-War-Two and postwar transformation from an important multi-ethnic city (formerly known, mostly, as Lwów and Lemberg) into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center" (book jacket).

Stengel, former managing editor of Time magazine, recounts his efforts fighting Russian disinformation while working in the U.S. State Department during Putin's initial "Little Green Men" invasion of Crimea, 2014.