{"id":36789,"date":"2023-08-08T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=36789"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:47:16","slug":"serhii-plokhy-the-russo-ukrainian-war-the-return-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=36789","title":{"rendered":"Serhii Plokhy, \u201eThe Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>An authoritative history of Europe\u2019s largest military conflict since World War II, from the <em>New York Times<\/em> best-selling author of <em>The Gates of Europe<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war\u2014and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. Though the current war began eight years before the all-out assault\u2014on February 27, 2014, when Russian armed forces seized the building of the Crimean parliament\u2014the roots of this conflict can be traced back even earlier, to post-Soviet tensions and imperial collapse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a broad historical context and an examination of Ukraine and Russia\u2019s ideas and cultures, as well as domestic and international politics, Plokhy reveals that while this new Cold War was not inevitable, it was predictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine, Plokhy argues, has remained central to Russia\u2019s idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post\u2013Cold War international order, and a resurgence of populist nationalism, Ukraine is now more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Serhii Plokhy<\/strong>, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs&#8217;kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War. 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