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A History of Ukraine
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Serhii Plokhy
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Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation. As the award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order to understand its present and future.
Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine was shaped by the empires that used it as a strategic gateway between East and West—from the Roman and Ottoman empires to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. For centuries, Ukraine has been a meeting place of various cultures. The mixing of sedentary and nomadic peoples and Christianity and Islam on the steppe borderland produced the class of ferocious warriors known as the Cossacks, for example, while the encounter between the Catholic and Orthodox churches created a religious tradition that bridges Western and Eastern Christianity. Ukraine has also been a home to millions of Jews, serving as the birthplace of Hassidism—and as one of the killing fields of the Holocaust.
Plokhy examines the history of Ukraine's search for its identity through the lives of the major figures in Ukrainian history: Prince Yaroslav the Wise of Kyiv, whose daughter Anna became queen of France; the Cossack ruler Ivan Mazepa, who was immortalized in the poems of Byron and Pushkin; Nikita Khrushchev and his protege-turned-nemesis Leonid Brezhnev, who called Ukraine their home; and the heroes of the Maidan protests of 2013 and 2014, who embody the current struggle over Ukraine's future.
As Plokhy explains, today's crisis is a tragic case of history repeating itself, as Ukraine once again finds itself in the center of the battle of global proportions. An authoritative history of this vital country, The Gates of Europe provides a unique insight into the origins of the most dangerous international crisis since the end of the Cold War.
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"Buy this book. Give copies to your children and grandchildren. Buy copies for your friends. Make sure they read it.” Ukrainian Weekly
"A sympathetic survey of the history of Ukraine along the East-West divide, from ancient divisions to present turmoil.... A straightforward, useful work that looks frankly at Ukraine's ongoing "price of freedom" against the rapacious, destabilizing force of Russia.” Kirkus Reviews
"For a comprehensive, engaging, and up-to-date history of Ukraine one could do no better than Serhii Plokhy's aptly titled The Gates of Europe. Plokhy's authoritative study will be of great value to scholars, students, policy-makers, and the informed public alike in making sense of the contemporary Ukrainian imbroglio.” Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University
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The Story of Russia is about how the Russians defined themselves―and repeatedly reinvented such definitions along the way. Moving from Russia’s agrarian beginnings in the first millennium to subsequent periods of monarchy, totalitarianism, and perestroika, all the way up to Vladimir Putin and his use of myths of Russian history to bolster his regime, celebrated historian Orlando Figes examines the ideas that have guided the country’s actions.
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Almost perfect…
- De Samantha Dispenzieri en 02-21-23
De: Orlando Figes
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The Ghost of Freedom
- A History of the Caucasus
- De: Charles King
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the 20th century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly independent countries and sparked the devastating war in Chechnya.
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fascinating story of a messy region
- De A. T. Howarth en 07-30-20
De: Charles King
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The Balkans [Modern Library Chronicles]
- De: Mark Mazower
- Narrado por: Robert O'Keefe
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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In this fascinating work, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History Mark Mazower uncovers the history of the Balkans with detail and clarity. He explores the reasons for current conflicts and examines the Balkans as a religious, cultural, and economic melting pot for Europe and Asia. Through Robert O'Keefe's articulate narration, listeners will be absorbed by this rich world.
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Thorough History...
- De David en 09-30-05
De: Mark Mazower
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Iran
- A Modern History
- De: Abbas Amanat
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 41 h y 53 m
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This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and economies of Iran against the background of dynastic changes, revolutions, civil wars, foreign occupation, and the rise of the Islamic Republic.
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Extremely Opinionated.
- De Elijah Rose en 02-13-19
De: Abbas Amanat
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History of Romania
- A Captivating Guide to Romanian History, Including Events Such as the First Roman-Dacian War, Raids of Vlad III Dracula Against the Ottoman Empire, the Great War, and World War 2
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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Romania lies on Europe’s eastern border, and as such, it is often neglected in history. Although it is a culturally very rich country, the world displayed little interest in its promotion. By listening to this captivating history of Romania, you will learn about the turbulent past of the region, the many wars it fought, and the people who led them. You will also learn the truth behind the character of Vlad the Impaler and decide for yourself if he was a ruthless, bloodthirsty ruler or a politician, tactician, and national hero.
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Polished to the edge of propaganda
- De Anonymous User en 08-19-23
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The Arabs
- A History
- De: Eugene Rogan
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 27 h y 29 m
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In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context for the first time. Tracing five centuries of Arab history, Rogan reveals that there was an age when the Arabs set the rules for the rest of the world. Today, however, the Arab world's sense of subjection to external powers carries vast consequences for both the region and Westerners who attempt to control it.
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Superb Book About the Arab World
- De Nostromo en 05-29-16
De: Eugene Rogan
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They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else
- A History of the Armenian Genocide
- De: Ronald Grigor Suny
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the 20th century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent - more than 1,000,000 people. A century later, the Armenian genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events.
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Great book, unbiased view finally
- De Raffy Afarian en 10-30-15
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The English and Their History
- De: Robert Tombs
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 43 h y 9 m
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Robert Tombs' momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history.
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Should be called, The English and their politics
- De Mary Elizabeth Reynolds en 08-24-16
De: Robert Tombs
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A People’s History of the World
- From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
- De: Chris Harman
- Narrado por: Napoleon Ryan
- Duración: 29 h y 44 m
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Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild-from the empires of antiquity to the world wars of the 20th century. In a bravura conclusion, Chris Harman exposes the reductive complacency of contemporary capitalism.
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Oh God avoid
- De Robert en 03-28-18
De: Chris Harman
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Russian History
- A Captivating Guide to the History of Russia, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasion, the Napoleonic Invasion, Reforms of Peter the Great, the Fall of the Soviet Union, and More
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Desmond Manny
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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This new Captivating History audiobook serves as an overview of Russian history over the span of more than a millennium, from the foundation of the Russian state by the Viking Prince Rurik in AD 862 until the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991.
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greater depth
- De Paul en 11-19-18
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The Vanquished
- Why the First World War Failed to End
- De: Robert Gerwarth
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass expulsions, and further major military clashes.
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little-known period following WWI is illuminated
- De John en 02-16-17
De: Robert Gerwarth
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Brazil: A Biography
- De: Lilia M. Schwarcz, Heloisa M. Starling
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 28 h y 27 m
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For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown. In an extraordinary journey that spans 500 years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling's Brazil offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country.
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Not great; not many English alternatives
- De Seth House en 07-02-19
De: Lilia M. Schwarcz, y otros
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The Birth of Classical Europe
- A History from Troy to Augustine
- De: Simon Price, Peter Thonemann
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level, from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a “classical Europe,” using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new audio book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past - one filled with great leaders and writers....
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Excellent overview of the Classical World
- De David I. Williams en 01-12-14
De: Simon Price, y otros
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From Muhammed to Burj Khalifa
- A Crash Course in 2,000 Years of Middle East History
- De: Michael Rank
- Narrado por: Kevin Pierce
- Duración: 2 h y 2 m
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To untangle the modern Middle East conflict and the 2,000 years behind it, this book is divided into 25 concise chapters. Each one is devoted to a major theme in Middle East history, such as the beginning of Islam, the Crusades, Genghis Khan, and the beginning of Israel in 1948. They can be read in a few minutes, giving you a fast overview of the issues and help you to understand Middle East current events.
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Interesting, but of course it's quite brief
- De Philo en 07-26-13
De: Michael Rank
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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 account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already apparent and possible future consequences.
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When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society” that is contemporary Ukraine. In this timely and original history, a bestseller in Ukraine, the historian Yaroslav Hrytsak tells the sweeping story of his nation through a meticulous examination of the major events, conflicts, and developments that have shaped it over the course of centuries. Hrytsak weaves a rich and detailed tapestry of a country in continual transformation.
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Ukraine's sudden prominence in American politics has compounded an already-widespread misunderstanding of what is actually happening in the nation. In the American media, Ukraine has come to signify an inherently corrupt place, rather than a real country struggling in the face of great challenges. Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know addresses Ukraine's relations with the West, particularly the United States, from the perspective of Ukrainians.
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Everyone Should Read This Book in 2022
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Our Enemies Will Vanish
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Love it or not, endure it, my beauty
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The Last Empire
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On Christmas, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: Earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after Bush's speech and has persisted for decades. As Serhii Plokhy reveals, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but the handiwork of the US.
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Full of Holes; Horrid Narrator
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Plokhy delivers as always!
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Bumblebee
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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 to seize a portion of Ukraine - only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand the confluence of Russian imperialism and nationalism today by delving into the nation's history.
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More like a history of Languages spoke in Russia.
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Borderland (Revised and Updated Edition)
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Anna Reid combines research and her own experiences to chart Ukraine's tragic past. Talking to peasants and politicians, rabbis and racketeers, dissidents and paramilitaries, survivors of Stalin's famine and of Nazi labor camps, she reveals the layers of myth and propaganda that wrap this divided land. From the Polish churches of Lviv, to the coal mines of the Russian-speaking Donbass, from the Galician shtetlech to the Tatar shantytowns of Crimea, the book explores Ukraine's struggle to build itself a national identity.
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Don't waste your time.
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Horrifying
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Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and wartime leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky from the dressing rooms of his variety show in Ukraine to the muddy trenches of his war with Russia. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and enemies, his advisers, ministers and military commanders, The Showman tells an intimate and eye-opening story of the President’s evolution from a slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience.
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Cuts through the war propaganda fog!
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Conflict
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Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past—and anticipate in the future—in order to navigate an increasingly perilous world.
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The Story of My Life
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War and Punishment
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- Narrado por: Richard Attlee
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As soon as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar circulated a Facebook petition signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others. That act led to a new law in Russia criminalizing criticism of the war, and Zygar fled Russia. In his time as a journalist, Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players—from politicians to oligarchs.
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Remarkable review of a terrible situation.
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The Reconstruction of Nations
- Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999
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Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and examines Poland's recent successful negotiations with its newly independent Eastern neighbors, as it has channeled national interest toward peace.
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just a text book
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Chernobyl
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On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry....
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A harrowing account of Russia’s occupation of the Chernobyl and Zaporizhia nuclear power plants and the dangers of nuclear power colliding with warfare.
De: Serhii Plokhy
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- Barbara
- 10-07-23
Stunning
Ukraine needs to win the 2022-2023 war. Much of the world will regret if Putin succeeds. The atrocities and trauma that have gone on for centuries in Ukraine are stunning in the worst sense.
This book broadly outlines the events and this approach allows the reader to fully grasp the story.
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- Wally Brewer
- 03-24-24
Very specific
This is one of the few available books about Ukrainian history in English. I’m glad someone write this for English speakers like me to read. However if I would make one change to this book I might actually make it less specific about certain events and occurrences. The amount of specific people’s names and group names was a little difficult to remember. But of all the problems to have with a history book, I don’t think that a big one
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- C. Brady Postma
- 04-25-24
A Scan of Ukraine's ENTIRE History
This book doesn't go into intense detail, but it's sheer breadth is duly impressive. Next, I'd like to read a book that goes into deeper detail about events since the Orange Revolution.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-11-23
Excellent
Explains the modern situation clearly by revealing the historical roots of the conflict. Long live ukraine.
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- jbfuller317
- 08-15-23
Best single volume history of Ukraine
Definitive, sweeping history that provides excellent context for current events. Very effective at laying out hugely complicated regional and ethnic issues
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- Specs2789
- 03-01-23
An extraordinarily good book
This history of Ukraine from its earliest moments draws a portrait through the ages of a most complex region. I have always been especially interested in Eastern Europe and the Mongols but could not put this down after that. For the first time understanding of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth dawned. I began to take my knowledge of Cossacks beyond "And Quiet Flows the Don".
The various partitions creating yet more ethnic minorities throughout Eastern and Central Europe left Ukraine riven religiously and politically, crushed between empires on all sides. Yet somehow its people kept rising from their knees, producing more food, industrial products and manpower than most of its neighbours. Black moments, too, especially periodic pogroms of its many Jews. But what a tale of endurance and re-emergence.
Essential reading.
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- Andrea Shalay
- 04-23-24
Extensively Researched
The book goes into great depth, based on extensive research. Without pushing a particular narrative, the reader hears all the major points that shaped Ukrainian history, language and culture since before the proto-Slavs settled the area now known as Ukraine.
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- Meghan
- 01-17-23
Outstanding
This was quite possibly one of the best historical non-fiction texts I've ever come across. Mr. Plokhy's work is exceptionally well-researched and contextualized within the broader scope of European and world historical events, movements, and societal shifts. I would recommend this to anyone who is curious about what is driving the Russo-Ukrainian war.
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- david geer
- 12-14-23
Straightforward
Explained the many diverse separations within Ukraine but also these influences can also unify the different peoples of the country when faced with a great evil from the outside.
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- Dan L Barton
- 04-15-24
Comprehensive and Enlightening
This comprehensive, in depth account of Ukraine’s history and relationship with regional neighbors puts todays crisis into clarifying perspective.
It took me a few hours of listening to get used to this narrators style. Although his articulation is clear and precise; I found it a bit too mono-tonous and tedious, sleep inducing; which eventually became tolerable, half way through.
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