Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States - Maria Popova, Oxana Shevel
Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States - Maria Popova, Oxana Shevel In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian…
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Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States - Maria Popova, Oxana Shevel
In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. What are the roots of this war, which has upended the international legal order and brought back the spectre of nuclear escalation? President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and Ukrainians rallied to defend their country.
Russia slid back into authoritarianism and imperialism, while Ukraine consolidated a competitive political system and pro-European identity. How did these supposedly "brotherly peoples" become each other's worst nightmare?In Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States, Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel explain how since 1991 Russia and Ukraine diverged politically, ending up on a collision course. As Ukraine built a democratic nation-state, Russia refused to accept it and came to see it as an