"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"--
- Genre
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Non-fictie
- Onderwerpen
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21e eeuw | 21e eeuw | Oekraï̈̈̈ne | Oorlog | Oorlog | Politieke geschiedenis | Rusland
- Taal
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Engels
Meer informatie
- Versie
- First edition
- Uitgever
- W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
- Verschenen
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2023
- ISBN
- 9781324051190
- Kenmerken
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376 pagina's
- Aantekening
- Met index
- Preface: Making sense of war -- Imperial collapse -- Democracy and autocracy -- Nuclear implosion -- The new Eastern Europe -- The Crimean gambit -- The rise and fall of the new Russia -- Putin's war -- The gates of Kyiv -- Eastern front -- The Black Sea -- The counteroffensive -- The return of the West -- The pivot to Asia -- Afterword: The new world order
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