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Western academics, experts, and journalists specializing in Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia have grappled with two fundamental analytical crises in connection with the 1991 disintegration of the USSR and Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine. Both crises were brought about by a similar lack of understanding of Moscow's inability to view its neighbors, in particular Ukraine, as not possessing sovereignty and not treating them as independent stat...

This book details how Russia's February 2022 open invasion of Ukraine has led to the biggest military conflagration and refugee crisis in Europe since World War II-a development with global ramifications. Co-written by a leading Western political expert, with three decades of research on contemporary Ukraine, and a prolific British journalist, the book explains why Russian President Vladimir Putin has been long obsessed with Ukraine and how hi...

This groundbreaking volume provides an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russiäs annexation of Crimea and Europe¿s only war between Russia and Ukraine through analysis of Putin's obsession with Ukraine and why Western sanctions have not deterred Russian military aggression.

This is a biography of one Ukrainian Josef Kuzio who lived in occupied Ukraine then was transported as labour to Germany and finaly setled in England. It tells of his life in Ukraine up until the Nazi invasion of 1941 survivial as forced labour and finally rebuilding Ukraine in Halifax for the remainder of his life.

The goal of this book is to launch a discussion of the crisis in Russian studies following the 2014 European crisis and Russian-Ukrainian war which has yet to be acknowledged by historians and political scientists in Russian and Eurasian studies. The book analyses the crisis through five perspectives. The first is how Western historians continue to include Ukrainians within an imperial history of 'Russia' which denies Ukrainians a separate his...

The Crimea was the only region of Ukraine in the 1990s where separatism arose and inter-ethnic conflict potentially could have taken place between the Ukrainian central government, ethnic Russians in the Crimea, and Crimean Tatars. Such a conflict would have inevitably drawn in Russia and Turkey. Russia had large numbers of troops in the Crimea within the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine also was a nuclear military power until 1996.This ...

This book is the first to provide a collection of studies surveying different aspects of the rise of the Ukraine¿s democratic opposition from marginalization, to protest against presidential abuse of office and culminating in the Orange Revolution.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

Russia has always had a difficult time accepting Ukraine as an independent state —and even more trouble acknowledging Ukraine's sovereignty over the Crimea and the port of Sevastopol.

In terms of population size, economic resources, and historic importance, Ukraine was second only to Russia among the Soviet republics. Yet its viability as an independent state seemed problematic, not least because of its long-established role as Russia's "junior partner" in ruling the USSR, the complex cultural heritage of its history as a borderland of empires, and its reluctance to embark upon economic reform even as it sought political co...

Leading experts and political leaders from Europe and North America explore the political, economic, and foreign policy possibilities of a more politically progressive Ukraine in the heart of Europe. They investigate the obstacles that have turned Ukraine into an immobile state and offer specific recommendations that would open Ukraine by breaking its reform logjam.

A key country for stability and security in Europe, Ukraine is struggling to create consistent foreign and security policies. Political alliances, identity struggles, economic goals, and geopolitical position all pull this newly emergent state in different and often conflicting directions. Due to its dependencies on both the West and Russia, Ukraine's foreign policy is in a state of flux. To ensure stability in this newly-emergent state, the c...

Ukraine played a key role in the dissolution of the former USSR, and its continued independence will have a decisive impact upon the transformation of Russia itself into either a new empire or Western democracy. The economic crisis and mismanagement that engulfed Ukraine during 1993 through 1994 led many in the West and among Ukraine's neighbors to question the country's long-term viability as an independent state. In 1995 Ukraine has entered ...

This study discusses Ukrainian security policies and their implications for Western international policy. It makes a case for greater Western aid and political support for Ukrainian independence and territorial integrity.

A definitive contemporary political, economic, and cultural history from a leading international expert, this is the first single-volume work to survey and analyze Soviet and post-Soviet Ukrainian history since 1953 as the basis for understanding the nation today.

Ukraine under Kuchma is the first survey of recent developments in post-soviet Ukraine. The book covers in an in-depth manner the entire range of key developments since the 1994 parliamentary and presidential elections, the first elections held in post-soviet Ukraine. The new era ushered in by these elections led to Ukraine's launch of radical economic and political reforms which aim to domestically dismantle soviet power within Ukraine, stabi...

This book is the first to provide a collection of studies surveying different aspects of the rise of the Ukraine¿s democratic opposition from marginalization, to protest against presidential abuse of office and culminating in the Orange Revolution.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

Ukraine: State and Nation Building explores the transformation of Soviet Ukraine into an independent state and examines the new elites and their role in the state building process, as well as other attributes of the modern nation-state such as borders, symbols, myths and national histories. Extensive primary sources and interviews with leading members of Ukranian elites, show that state building is an integral part of the transition process an...