Onuch and Hale artfully combine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s biography and a chronicle of Ukraine’s postcommunist development. Read More
August 2022
Foreign Affairs Recommends: Books on Ukraine
From the imperatives of modern military strategists to the campaigns of ancient warlords, these books help explain the origins of the conflict in Ukraine.
Galeotti traces the evolution of the Russian military from its steep decline following the collapse of the Soviet Union through the military reforms carried out during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule. Read More
Memory Crash: The Politics of History in and Around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s
By Georgiy Kasianov
Reviewed by Maria Lipman
Kasianov’s nuanced and impartial chronicle considers two competing versions of Ukraine’s national history. Read More
Freedman presents a brief history of the conflict and analyzes it in the context of strategic theory.
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Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes From the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
By Lynne Viola
Reviewed by Robert Legvold
The story of Stalin’s terror is well known, except for one dimension: the fate of those among the tormentors who were themselves swept into the meat grinder.
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Shore’s book is built on the testimony of those who participated in the 2014 revolution that rocked Ukraine or who experienced firsthand the war in the eastern part of the country known as the Donbas, which broke out in the aftermath of the revolution.
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Readers who seek to know more about the complex, crosscutting influences that have shaped eastern Europe over the millennia can find no better place to turn than Plokhy’s new book. Read More
Uehling’s book explores the lives of residents of Ukraine’s easternmost regions displaced by the military conflict in the Donbas that followed the 2014 Maidan revolution. Read More
