Ukraine: Books

Cyberattacks are nothing particularly new to the world and Ukraine had suffered many such attacks by Russia over recent years. Russia had knowingly been exploiting Ukraine's digital vulnerabilities as a proving ground for nearly a decade. Malware such as Sandworm and BlackEnergy had caused untold damage to the Ukrainian population and government previously, which allowed Russia to perfect cyberattacks for further, more global events.

Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus of life.

Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large numbers of mainly Communist purge victims whose cases remained incomplete were released

S’appuyant sur son expérience de terrain en Russie et en Ukraine, Anna Colin Lebedev retrace les trajectoires de ces deux sociétés pendant les années postsoviétiques. Elle met en lumière à la fois le maintien de proximités, à travers notamment l’héritage de l’URSS, et la cristallisation progressive des différences. En 2014, Russes et Ukrainiens ont cessé d’avoir la même vision d’un destin partagé. L’annexion de la Crimée et la guerre dans le Donbass ont été un point de rupture. Et c’est un gouffre qui semble depuis février 2022 se creuser entre les deux peuples, alors que l’agression armée de l’Ukraine par la Russie les a fait basculer dans l’horreur d’un conflit meurtrier.

Invasion is Luke Harding's compelling chronicle of the war that changed everything. For this work of reportage he spent months reporting on the ground during the build up to the conflict and afterward; his book tells of the initial days of shock and panic, the grim reality of this ongoing war, and the unheard human stories behind the headlines. Invasion also offers insightful portraits of the the war's two great personalities. One, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is an actor-turned-president who rallied support on a global stage. The other, Vladimir Putin, is a dictator who dwells in a strange and unreachable realm. Harding examines the ideological, religious and personal reasons behind Putin's decision to invade. And he confronts a crucial question: which side will prevail in this terrible war? With the ripple effects of the largest armed conflict in Europe since 1945 already being felt beyond Ukraine and Russia's borders, it is more vital than ever to understand how the situation on the front line will have profound effects for us all.

Ce livre est une histoire de l’Ukraine, du territoire et des hommes qui l’habitent, depuis Hérodote jusqu’à Zelensky. Racontée avec brio à travers une suite d’événements et de portraits des protagonistes insérée dans l’histoire politique, économique et militaire de l’Europe et dans celle de la chrétienté ; les deux présentées dans leurs grandes lignes mais sans simplifications excessives. La moitié du livre traite de la période antérieure à la Première Guerre mondiale, ce qui laisse assez de place pour une histoire plus détaillée de l’époque contemporaine.

L'attaque de l'Ukraine par la Russie, le 24 février 2022, a sonné le retour de la guerre de haute intensité en Europe. Les défis qu'elle soulève dépassent largement ce cadre et la volonté de toute puissance régionale de Vladimir Poutine. Nous assistons au choc de deux visions du monde. D'un côté, les totalitarismes russe et chinois entendent désoccidentaliser la planète et proposer à tous un modèle qui fait primer la force sur le droit et la purification des esprits sur la libre conscience. De l'autre, les démocraties solidaires des Ukrainiens ont décidé de sanctionner la Russie, d'armer et de former l'armée de reconquête du président Volodymyr Zelensky. Le conflit en Ukraine n'est pas encore mondial, mais il est déjà " mondialisé ". Il va immanquablement rebattre les cartes de l'échiquier géopolitique, idéologique et économique international.

The eastern edge of Europe has always been in flux. As a result, the nature of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship is both complex and ambiguous. Prompted by the countries' historical and geographical entanglement, Volodymyr V. Kravchenko asks what the words "Ukraine" and "Russia" really mean.

L'ancien comédien et animateur télé n'était pourtant pas destiné à ce rôle. Qui est cet homme arrivé en politique par effraction et sur les épaules duquel repose une partie du destin de l'Europe ? Tous deux sur le terrain, les auteurs nous livrent une enquête au plus près de ce personnage hors du commun.

This collective work analyzes the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, providing a coherent picture of Ukraine and Eastern Europe in the period 2013-2020. The contributions explore local society and traditions and the alienation from Ukraine caused by the events of Euromaidan, which saw the removal of the Donetsk-based president Viktor Yanukovych. Other chapters address the refugee crisis, the Minsk Accords in 2014 and the impact of the new president Volodymyr Zelensky and his efforts to bring the war to an end by negotiations among Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany.

This collection considers how, when, and under what conditions the borders that historically defined the country of Ukraine were agreed upon. A diverse set of transnational contexts are explored, focusing mostly on the critical period of 1917-54 and revealing the shared history of territory and state formation in Europe and the wider modern world.

Eugene Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances the United States has considered Ukraine's sovereignty in its relations with Moscow. The Moscow Factor brings together for the first time documentary evidence and declassified materials, retrospective articles by former policymakers, and memoirs by erstwhile senior officials.

L'auteur étudie les aspects politiques, économiques, sociaux, nationaux, stratégiques et territoriaux de l'histoire ukrainienne depuis l'acquisition de son indépendance en 1991. Il en tire les forces et les faiblesses du pays, notamment liées à son système politique, à son statut de creuset de cultures et de nationalités, à son plurilinguisme ou encore à la perte de la Crimée en 2014. ©Electre 2022

This book is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russia's annexation of Crimea and Europe's de facto war between Russia and Ukraine. The book provides a historical and contemporary understanding behind President Vladimir Putin Russia's obsession with Ukraine and why Western opprobrium and sanctions have not deterred Russian military aggression.

This book examines why, when the conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014, fighting broke out in the Donets'k region, whereas it did not in Kharkiv city, despite the city, like the Donets'k region, being geographically proximate to Russia and similar in ethnic and linguistic make up.

Depuis une dizaine d’années, l’Ukraine apparaît régulièrement sur le devant de la scène internationale, que ce soit pour ses mouvements protestataires, ou à propos de l’annexion de la Crimée par la Russie et du conflit à l’est du pays, semblant constituer le théâtre d’une nouvelle guerre froide qui cristallise les tensions entre la Russie et les nations occidentales. Les événements récents sont aussi l’occasion de mesurer combien notre connaissance de ce pays est lacunaire, se limitant souvent aux clichés d’une Ukraine berceau de la Russie, terre des cosaques, grenier à blé de l’URSS et d’une suite de gouvernants entachés par une corruption massive.

The purpose of Deepening EU-Ukrainian Relations is to make the complex political, economic, and legal content of the Association Agreement readily understandable. This third edition, published seven years since the Agreement’s implementation is substantially new in content, both updating how Ukraine has been enacting the Agreement, and introducing new dimensions (including the Green Deal, the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber security, and gender equality). The Handbook is also up to date in analysing Ukraine’s the development of the Zelensky administration, with its unfinished agenda for cutting corruption and reforming the rule of law.

This handbook comprehensively explores the European Union’s institutional and policy responses to crises across policy domains and institutions – including the Euro crisis, Brexit, the Ukraine crisis, the refugee crisis, as well as the global health crisis resulting from COVID-19.

This Review assesses Ukraine’s investment climate vis-à-vis the country’s energy sector reforms and discusses challenges and opportunities in this context. Capitalising on the OECD Policy Framework for Investment and other relevant instruments and guidance, the Review takes a broad approach to investment climate challenges facing Ukraine’s energy sector. The analysis and recommendations in the Review can help policy makers strengthen the enabling conditions for investment in Ukraine’s energy sector.

Chapters explore the perceptions of both sides of EU-Ukraine relations, and propose a new set of concepts to highlight internal and external role incongruences, including: perception gaps, expectations-performance gaps and hope-performance gaps. The book further offers a comparison of EU self-images and Ukrainian expectations and perceptions in four areas of external actions of the EU: as an international leader and global and regional power, a partner for Ukraine, a peace mediator and a public diplomacy actor. Scholars and students of international relations, European politics, and EU foreign policy will find this book a useful resource.

In recent years, Ukraine has not been able to overcome internal contradictions. Interregional differences, the history of the formation of the Ukrainian state, continue to have a negative impact on the process of the formation of Ukraine as an independent state. The victory in the election of the new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, opened up a new stage in the development of Ukraine, which leaves a lot of room for academic discussions of the country's future.

One of the world's most prevalent political quarrels is the current geographical state of Ukraine, along with its relationships with Russia and the European Union. With the annexation of Crimea, Russian forces have gained control over most of Eastern Ukraine, igniting a clash between the two governments and triggering the European Union, United States, and several Post-Soviet states to involve themselves in the situation.

In contrast to those who see the Russian leader as a master operator who catches out the West with bold moves Freedman sees him as impulsive and so forced to improvise when his gambles fail. Freedman's application of his strategic perspective to this supremely important conflict challenges our understanding of some of its key features and the idea that Vladimir Putin is unmatched as a strategic mastermind.

Ukraine: Contested Nationhood in a European Context challenges the common view that Ukraine is a country split between a pro-European West and a pro-Russian East. The volume navigates the complicated cultural history of Ukraine and highlights the importance of regional traditions for an understanding of the current political situation. A key feature is the different politics of memory that prevail in each region, such as the Soviet past being presented as either a foreign occupation or a benign socialist project.

This edited volume focuses on the links between the ongoing crisis in and around Ukraine, regional diversity, and the reform of decentralization. It provides in-depth insights into the historical constitution of regional diversity and the evolution of center-periphery relationships in Ukraine, the legal qualification of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, and the role of the decentralization reform in promoting conflict resolution, as well as modernization, democratization and European integration of Ukraine.

This book examines the relationship between national identity construction and current foreign policy discourses on Russia in selected European Union member states in 2014-2018. It shows that divergent national discourses on Russia derive from the different ways in which the country was constructed in national identity. It includes case studies in policy areas that are of primary importance for EU-Russia relations, such as energy security (the Nord Stream 2 controversy), the Ukraine crisis and Russia's military intervention in Syria. Focusing on EU member states that have traditionally taken different stances vis-à-vis Russia (Germany, Poland and Finland), it shows that at the peak of the Ukraine crisis national discourses converged towards a pragmatic, but critical narrative.

Dieses Buch informiert über die wichtigsten Ereignisse und Zusammenhänge der ukrainischen Geschichte. Es setzt der vorherrschenden russozentrischen Perspektive eine ukrainische gegenüber und überprüft gleichzeitig kritisch ukrainische nationale Mythen. Dabei wird nicht nur die Geschichte der Ukrainer vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart dargestellt; auch die Geschichte der in der Ukraine lebenden Polen, Russen, Juden und Deutschen wird berücksichtigt.

Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However, this theory obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution and the conflict's crucial international dimension. The book explains how independent Ukraine fell victim to crony capitalism, how its people rebelled twice in the last two decades in the name of democracy and against corruption, and why Russia reacted so aggressively to the strivings of Ukrainians.

Depuis novembre 2013, l’Ukraine est au cœur de l’une des plus graves crises que le monde a connues depuis la fin de la guerre froide. À l’origine de ces événements ? Son rapport à l’Europe d’un côté, à la Russie de l’autre. Dans cet essai, Emmanuelle Armandon se donne pour objectif d’interroger l’évolution des relations que Kiev entretient avec ses deux principaux partenaires depuis 1991.

Bringing together the work of sociologists, historians, and political scientists, this book explores the increasing importance of the politics of memory in central and eastern European states since the end of communism, with a particular focus on relations between Ukraine and Poland. An exploration of the changes in national historical culture, The Politics of Memory in Poland and Ukraine will appeal to scholars with interests in memory studies, national identity, and the implications of memory-making for contemporary relations between states.

This book examines four dramatic periods that have shaped not only Ukrainian, but also Soviet and Russian history over the last hundred years: the revolutionary struggles of 1917-20, Stalin's "second" revolution of 1928-33, the mobilization of revolutionary nationalists during the Second World War, and the Euromaidan protests of 2013-14. The Euromaidan protesters declared that "Ukraine is not Russia," but the slogan was already current in 1917. This volume describes the process that led to its reappearance in the present day.

Conquest, annexation, secession by force these belong to a statecraft which great powers after World War II seemed to have set aside for good. Russia in 2014 however brought them back. Aggression against Ukraine examines the stakes in Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk and other troubled borderlands and for international law and public order as a whole.

Der Kampf um Selbstbestimmung innerhalb der ukrainischen Gesellschaft ist von Beginn an durch die Interessen der Europäischen Union und der Vereinigten Staaten einerseits sowie die Interessen Russlands andererseits überlagert worden. Die militärische Eskalation, die Besetzung der Ostukraine und die Annexion der Krim haben zu einem eingefrorenen Konflikt geführt, ohne dass ein Ausweg in Sicht wäre.

Beyond the Euromaidan examines the prospects for advancing reform in Ukraine in the wake of the February 2014 Euromaidan revolution and Russian invasion. It examines six crucial areas where reform is needed: deep internal identity divisions, corruption, the constitution, the judiciary, plutocratic "oligarchs," and the economy.

Adopting a broad conceptualization of foreign and security policy, the book examines the role of the High Representative as chair of the Foreign Affairs Council and in her/his capacity as Vice President of the European Commission to assess different patterns of integrated efforts in EU foreign and security policies.

In February 2014, Russia initiated a war in Ukraine, its reasons for aggression unclear. Each of this volume's authors offers a distinct interpretation of Russia's motivations, untangling the social, historical, and political factors that created this war and continually reignite its tensions.

This book examines the crisis in Ukraine through the lens of “triangular diplomacy,” which focuses on the multiple interactions among the European Union, the United States and Russia. It is explicitly comparative, considering how the US and EU responded to ostensibly the same crisis. It also adopts a “360-degree” perspective, focusing on how the US and EU interacted in their dealings with Russia, and how Russia and Ukraine have responded.

Marvin Kalb, former CBS Moscow bureau chief, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized the seaport region of Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, separatist rebels aided by Russia took over territory in the area surrounding Crimea in eastern Ukraine. The United States and its Western allies immediately imposed strict sanctions on Russia and have continued to tighten those sanctions. This sharp deterioration in East-West relations has raised basic questions about the policies of Vladimir Putin and the future of Russia.

The aftereffects of the February 2014 Uprising in Ukraine are still reverberating around the world. The consequences of the popular rebellion and Russian President Putin’s attempt to strangle it remain uncertain. In this book, Andrew Wilson combines a spellbinding, on-the-scene account of the Kiev Uprising with a deeply informed analysis of what precipitated the events, what has developed in subsequent months, and why the story is far from over.

Comment se déprendre de l'Union soviétique ? Pour l'Ukraine, c'est, depuis 1990 et les premiers mouvements populaires pour l'indépendance, et jusqu'à la révolution de 2013-2014, la même question qui se pose. Écartelée entre la Russie poutinienne, qui refuse de laisser le pays prendre son envol, et l'attrait pour l'Europe, l'Ukraine ne cesse, depuis 20 ans, de réclamer la liberté, l'indépendance et un État de droit.

La clef du conflit entre la Russie et l'Ukraine se trouve dans les mythologies divergentes des deux peuples. Comprendre cette clef permet de trouver des issues à la guerre russo-ukrainienne. La communauté internationale a un rôle essentiel à jouer. Mais ceci demande d'agir vite, avec résolution, et en acceptant de reposer la question des fondements spirituels de la démocratie et du droit international.

Die Orange Revolution im November/Dezember 2004 markierte den Beginn einer klaren politischen Orientierung der Ukraine hin zu einem Beitritt zur Europäischen Union. Europa wird in diesem Band nicht als geografischer oder historischer Begriff, sondern als normatives Konzept verstanden, das die Achtung der Menschen- und Bürgerrechte, Rechtsstaatlichkeit, Gewaltenteilung, parlamentarische Demokratie, Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit usw. umfasst. Es werden die Bemühungen der Ukraine, sich in der Ära Juschtschenko der Europäischen Union anzunähern, analysiert und bewertet, aber auch die aus früherer Zeit ererbten kulturellen Konstanten untersucht, die sich mehrheitlich negativ auf diese Bestrebungen auswirkten. In mehreren Beiträgen wird zudem gezeigt, wie sich die Europa-Orientierung der Ukraine unter Präsident Janukowitsch seit März 2010 verändert hat.