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“The Russo-Ukrainian War is by Serhii Plokhy, a Ukrainian historian at Harvard who looks to history to understand the conflict, seeing it as an ‘old-fashioned imperial war’ with its roots in the 19th and 20th centuries. As he notes in the preface, ‘I take a longue durée approach to understanding the current war. I decline the temptation to identify the date of February, 2022, as its beginning, no matter the shock and drama of the all-out Russian assault on Ukraine, for the simple reason that the war began eight years earlier, on February 27, 2014, when Russian armed forces seized the building of the Crimean parliament.'” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Early Summer 2023
Sophie Roell, Journalist
