{"id":44835,"date":"2025-02-13T23:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44835"},"modified":"2025-02-13T23:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:33:35","slug":"gwendolyn-sasse-russias-war-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44835","title":{"rendered":"Gwendolyn Sasse, \u201eRussia&#8217;s War Against Ukraine\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nakon njema\u010dkog izdanja iz 2022. godine (o kojem smo ve\u0107 <a href=\"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=33984\">obavijestili<\/a>), objavljeno je 2023. godine i englesko izdanje knjige autorice Gwendolyn Sasse o ratu Rusije protiv Ukrajine. Prilika je to za spomenuti da &#8211; za razliku od toga &#8211; sli\u010dno ratu u Gazi, ni rat u Ukrajini \u2013 premda traje ve\u0107 nekoliko godina i ima sna\u017ean globalni utjecaj \u2013 jo\u0161 uvijek gotovo da uop\u0107e nije rezultirao nekim prijevodnim izdanjima kada je rije\u010d o izdava\u0161tvu u Hrvatskoj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second World War. How could this happen in twenty-first-century Europe? Why did Putin decide to escalate Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine, a war which began with Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea in 2014?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this timely book, Gwendolyn Sasse analyses the background to this war and examines the factors that led to Putin\u2019s fateful decision. She retraces the history of Ukraine\u2019s struggle for independence from Russia and shows how democratic developments in Ukraine had become a risk for Russia\u2019s political system. She also shows that ambiguous Western policy towards Russia encouraged elites in the Kremlin to think that they had more room for action than they did. The result is a brilliant analysis of the background to the war, a concise account of the course of the war itself and a timely reflection on what its consequences will be \u2013 for Ukraine, for Russia and for the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An indispensable book for anyone who wants to understand the most dangerous conflict of our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 1. Why This War? Why Now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 2. Independence and Territory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 3. Protest and Transformation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 4. Authoritarianism and (Neo)Imperialism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The War Against Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 5. The Annexation of Crimea in 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 6. The War in Donbas Since 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 7. The War of Aggression Since 24 February 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 8. Consequences of the War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outlook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gwendolyn Sasse<\/strong>&nbsp;is the Director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin and Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism at Humboldt University, Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Clear, succinct, to the point. Gwendolyn Sasse brings a wealth of knowledge on Ukraine and Russia to answer key questions about the origins of the Russo-Ukrainian war and its consequences. A must read to understand the largest military conflict in Europe since the Second World War.\u2019<br><strong>Serhii Plokhy, author of\u00a0<em>The Russo-Ukrainian War<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018A concise, authoritative and penetrating account of the historical background, course and likely consequences of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine.\u2019<br><strong>Timothy Garton Ash, author of\u00a0<em>Homelands: A Personal History of Europe<br><br><\/em><\/strong>\u2018the clearest account of the complicated histories of the Donbass and Crimean issues\u2019<br><strong>Sheila Fitzpatrick,\u00a0<em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>September 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>156 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politybooks.com\/bookdetail?book_slug=russias-war-against-ukraine--9781509560592\">https:\/\/www.politybooks.com\/bookdetail?book_slug=russias-war-against-ukraine&#8211;9781509560592<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sasse.jpg?fit=300%2C470&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54528,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54528","url_meta":{"origin":44835,"position":0},"title":"Amerika u 50 pojmova","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"8. srpnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Projekat koji je rezultirao objavljivanjem knjige \u201eAmerika u 50 pojmova\u201c pokrenut je u januru 2026. godine, pod pokroviteljskom Ameri\u010dke ambasade u Beogradu, s ciljem obele\u017eavanja 250. godi\u0161njice Sjedinjenih Ameri\u010dkih Dr\u017eava. 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