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Summary: "Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet, to Ukrainians, this attack was painfully familiar, the latest episode in a centuries-long Russian campaign to divide and oppress Ukraine. In Intent to Destroy, political scientist Eugene Finkel uncovers these deep roots of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Ukraine is a key borderland between Russia and the West, and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine. The United States and its Western allies immediately imposed strict sanctions on Russia and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 KALIshchenko, Volodymyr
Summary: "In Towards the Abyss, social scientist Volodymyr Ishchenko tracks a decade of war and upheaval in Ukraine"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2024
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICJudah, Tim
Summary: "From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. Ever since Ukraine's violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation reigns, more than two million people have been displaced, and Ukrainians fight one another on a second front--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 JUDZygarʹ, Mikhail
Summary: "In his time as a journalist, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players--from politicians to oligarchs. As an expert on Putin's moods and behavior, he has spent years studying the Kremlin's plan regarding Ukraine, and here, in clear, chronological order he explains how we got here. In 1996 to 2004,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 ZYGMenon, Rajan
Summary: The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO's future, and put an end to one of the most ambitious projects of U.S. foreign policy -- building a partnership with Russia. It also threatens to undermine U.S. diplomatic efforts on issues ranging from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 MENMatthews, Owen
Summary: "The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War--and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime--and Russia itself--at risk of destruction. Why? Drawing on over 25 years' experience as a correspondent in Moscow, as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mudlark 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 MATSummary: It's a super provocative power-play that's brought Russia eye-ball to eye-ball with the rest of the world in a high-stakes battle of wills. Who'll blink first? Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to seize a big chunk of neighboring Ukraine and is actively surveying other parts of that country while all but daring Europe and America to take him on. Crimea - once a sort of cheery sea-side...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014
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Harding, Luke
Summary: "In a damning, inspiring, and breathtaking narrative of what is likely to be a turning point for Europe--and the world--Guardian correspondent and New York Times bestselling author Luke Harding reports firsthand on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. When, just before dawn on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched a series of brutal attacks, Harding was there, on the ground in Kyiv. But this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 HARSanger, David E.
Summary: "A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.9 SANSullivan, John Joseph
Summary: For weeks before the invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan was warning that it would happen. When troops finally crossed the border, he was woken in the middle of the night by an employee at Embassy Moscow with a prearranged code. The signal was even more bracing than the cold of that February night: it meant that Sullivan needed to collect his bodyguards and get to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company
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Summary: "Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine itself. But it also looks more broadly at Putin's recreation of Russian military power and its expansion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2022
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Summary: A senior Economist writer argues that the Kremlin's spymasters have excelled in their field beyond the capabilities of their Western-world adversaries, tracing the story behind the 2010 deportation of Anna Chapman while analyzing triumphs and disasters in Western intelligence throughout the Cold War as revealed by a leading Russian NATO spy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 LUCSummary: In June 2023, Russia destroyed the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine and committed an unprecedented ecocide. In response, French philosopher and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Lévy returns to Ukraine to capture Ukraine's deep humanity despite the dire conditions and civilian resilience and resistance unlike any other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GLOBrowder, Bill
Summary: "When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022