Serhy Yekelchyk

Ukraine

What Everyone Needs to Know®

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this fully updated third edition of Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know ®, Serhy Yekelchyk provides indispensable background on Ukraine's long, fraught relationship with Russia that led to the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The book addresses the reasons why Russia denies Ukraine's status as a nation with its own history, language, and sovereign identity, as well as the complex factors behind the corruption and political divisions within Ukraine. Yekelchyk also covers the 2013-14 Ukrainian revolution and the subsequent annexation of the Crimea by Russia; Ukraine's relations with the West, particularly during the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections; the presidency of Volodymyr Zelensky; and the strategic dynamics of the current Russo-Ukrainian war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm
• ISBN-13: 9780197674444
• ISBN-10: 0197674445
• Artikelnr.: 68169451

Autorenporträt

Serhy Yekelchyk is Professor of History and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria. He has published widely on modern Ukrainian history and Russian-Ukrainian relations.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chronology
Map
1. Why Ukraine?
2. The Land and the People
3. The Making of Modern Ukraine
4. Ukraine after Communism
5. The Orange Revolution and the EuroMaidan
6. Russia's Annexation of the Crimea and the War in the Donbas
7. The War in Ukraine as an International Issue
Notes
Further Reading
Index

Rezensionen

"Serhy Yekelchyk has written a modern history of modern Ukraine, one that questions nationalist mythologies and patriotic claims to an uncontested past and shows how making a nation requires the hard work of scholars and poets, soldiers and statesmen, and even Soviet bureaucrats. This is simply the best history of this new nation that we have!"-Ronald Grigor Suny, author of The Soviet Experiment