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Lost Kingdom
From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted …
Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War – A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity
In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. Initially demonstrating under the …
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear …
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
In November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to the Soviets was to open a …
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in …
Angrebet – Ruslands krig mod Ukraine og dens følger for verden
I Angrebet – Ruslands krig mod Ukraine og dens følger for verden forklarer en af verdens ledende forskere inden for ukrainsk historie, hvorfor Rusland gik til angreb mod Ukraine, …
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at …
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
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 …
Poltava 1709
The Battle of Poltava has long been recognized as a crucial event in the geopolitical history of Europe and a decisive point in the Great Northern War between Sweden and the …
The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine
In this study, Serhii Plokhy examines the confessionalization of religious life in the early modern period, and shows how Cossack involvment in the religious struggle between …
The Future of the Past
Ukraine is in the midst of the worst international crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War, and history itself has become a battleground in Russia-Ukraine relations. Can …