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In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a fellow East Slav state with much shared history. Russia's War Against Ukraine by Mark Edele, a world authority on the history of the Soviet Union, explains why and how this conflict came about. Edele considers...
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In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a fellow East Slav state with much shared history. Russia's War Against Ukraine by Mark Edele, a world authority on the history of the Soviet Union, explains why and how this conflict came about.
Edele considers competing historical claims and arguments with authority and lucidity. His primary focus, however, is on the different paths taken by these two former members of the Soviet Union. Since the implosion of that state in 1991, Ukraine has developed a vibrant, if often troubled, democracy.
For an increasingly dictatorial Russian political elite, including but not limited to Vladimir Putin, Ukraine has appeared more and more threatening. Humiliated by the degradation of Russia's international standing, feeling betrayed by an expanding NATO, and anxious about democratic revolutions in the former Soviet space, Putin and his allies have increasingly retreated into a resentful ultra-nationalism.
Dreams of past imperial glory stand in place of any attempt to solve the problems of the present.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780522882445
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 June 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Melbourne University Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Mark Edele is Hansen Professor in History at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of six books on the history of the Soviet Union, most recently Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II (2021). He has worked in archives in Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany and the United States. He teaches the histories of the Soviet Union, of World War II, and of dictatorship and democracy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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