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Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands Paperback – July 14, 2022

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The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through the events which have forced Ukraine, a country internally divided between East and West, to choose between closer union with Europe or its historic ties with Russia. In providing the first full account of the ongoing crisis, Sakwa analyses the origins and significance of the Euromaidan Protests, examines the controversial Russian military intervention and annexation of Crimea, reveals the extent of the catastrophe of the MH17 disaster and looks at possible ways forward following the October 2014 parliamentary elections. In doing so, he explains the origins, developments and global significance of the internal and external battle for Ukraine.With all eyes focused on the region, Sakwa unravels the myths and misunderstandings of the situation, providing an essential and highly readable account of the struggle for Europe's contested borderlands.
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RICHARD SAKWA is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, UK.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Academic; 1st edition (July 14, 2022)
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  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
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  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1350340817
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Dr. Peter De Simone
5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading for Anyone Interested or Curious about the Current Situation in Ukraine and between Russia and the US
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2015
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Far too often, people are too willing to accept the very poorly informed or blatantly biased presentations of events and take them as fact. Sakwa provides a wonderfully balanced and well explained, argued, and supported presentation of the true background to the events currently tearing Ukraine apart. Particularly in the West the narrative of "it's all Putin's/Russia's fault" is expected to fly unchallenged. In reality the origins of this crisis are found in the volatile history of the region and the fact that Ukraine itself, it's people, etc are "new" on the world stage. A region historically torn between "West" and "East" the present day crisis has very little to do with the desires of the "villain" Putin, and everything to do with the ignorant and poorly informed approaches about the history, society, and culture of the region by mostly the leadership of various European states and the United States. This work should be a required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the truth behind the origins of this current conflict and how various leaders in the West have willingly through their own ignorance of this region and its history created new, unnecessary tensions with Russia.
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Andrew Baldwin
5.0 out of 5 stars A humane and civilized analysis of the Ukrainian tragedy from one of Britain's leading experts on the Former Soviet Union
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2015
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Mr. Sakwa frames the Ukrainian crisis in terms of competing views of Europe and Ukraine. On the one hand, there is the concept of a Wider Europe, achieved through enlargement of EU and NATO, which will stop well short of the Urals. On the other hand, there is the concept of a Greater Europe, that will include Russia and stretch to the Pacific. There are also two visions of Ukraine, a monist one where Ukrainian is the only official language, and a pluralist one where Ukraine is a bilingual or multilingual country, with Russian as the official language at the regional and the national level.
Unstated, perhaps because he thought it too obvious to mention, is that a Greater Europe would require a fundamental reordering of the working languages of the EU. Now it essentially operates in three languages: English, German and French. In a Greater Europe, Russophones would be the largest group, and Russian would necessarily be one of the main working languages.
Mr. Sakwa assigns the primary blame for the Ukrainian crisis to the leaders of the EU, who have become increasingly attached to the idea of a Wider Europe that excludes Russia, and is allied with the US. (By the way, Mr. Sakwa is wrong when he states that no country has joined the EU since 1989 that did not also join NATO. Austria, Finland and Sweden joined in 1995, and are all neutral countries. Cyprus joined in May 2004 but it is kept out of NATO by Turkey, which gobbled up Northern Cyprus in an ethnic cleansing operation in 1974.) The Eastern Partnership agreements planned for Ukraine and five other ex-Soviet republics forced them to choose between closer trade ties with the EU and with Russia, and put them on a path to NATO membership. There was no way that they could sign an Eastern Partnership agreement and contemplate joining the Eurasian Union being promoted by Russia, although some countries would have liked to join both. Further the EU would not negotiate with Russia and Ukraine on changes to the association agreement.
This was the issue that split Ukraine apart between monists and pluralists, leading first to an unconstitutional seizure of power, then the secession of Crimea and finally a civil war in the East. While US State official Victoria Nuland’s scheming to replace the existing government was pernicious, the Americans only took advantage of a situation that, for the most part, the EU leaders had created for them.
Now the monist view is on the ascendant in rump Ukraine (Ukraine less Crimea) and the Wider Europe view in the EU. Mr. Sakwa argues convincingly that salvation lies in a change of mind and a change of heart on the part of Ukrainians to embrace pluralism, and of Europeans, to embrace the idea of a Greater Europe.
On p.173 Mr. Sakwa says: “Ukraine ranked one hundred and ninth in the world in terms of per capita GDP ($3,920).” I assume that this is an estimate based on exchange-rate adjusted GDP. The IMF estimate for Ukraine’s GDP on a PPP basis for 2013 is $8,651 per capita, more than twice as high. One doesn’t expect a political science professor to be an economist, but it is really a pity all social scientists aren’t aware by now that exchange-rate-adjusted GDP estimates for lower income countries are badly downward biased; only PPP estimates should be cited by reputable scholars in most contexts.
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tony kevin
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, scholarly book.
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2015
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Excellent book, scholarly, and free of the usual anti-Russia and anti-Putin biases. Tony Kevin, Canberra, Australia.
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Ryan B. Ward
5.0 out of 5 stars A broader context for the Ukrainian crisis
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2016
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Firstly, a word of warning. This book is not a general day-by-day history of the crisis. It assumes the reader already has a good knowledge of the basic story, and focuses on broader interpretive issues. For this reason, it's not a good choice for someone who knows little to nothing about the events.
However, if you've already got the basic story straight, this is a really good challenge to the way that story is usually told. Most treatments of this issue don't make any attempt to place the crisis in its proper international context, or to understand the Russian perspective. Furthermore, they often assume a very simplistic account of the relationships involved (Yanukovich was a Russian cat's paw, the Eastern rebels are mostly Russian soldiers, neither of which is true) This book does a good job correcting these imbalances. To really understand this crisis, you have to take account of the role of all the major players (the various Ukrainian factions, the Eastern rebels, Russia, the EU, the US). This is the only book I've seen that even makes a serious attempt to do that.
Finally, I think a hint of the book's quality can be seen by looking at the negative reviews. Most of them don't even attempt to answer any of Sakwa's point, but just rant about "Putinist propaganda" (how dare Sakwa make an attemptto look at things from more than one point of view?) The few reviews that do go into detail focus mainly on points that are peripheral to the main thrust of the book, and badly strawman Sakwa's arguments. This book is making all the right people uncomfortable.
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Javier Britez
2.0 out of 5 stars Manipulated history
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024
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The book manipulates many aspects of recent history in order to fit the western narrative regarding the origin of the conflict which makes it a piece of propaganda instead.
I profoundly regret I've bought it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed and sourced account of the origins of the disaster.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2023
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This book takes us up to about 2016. The same author has written a more recent one 'How the West lost the peace'. I would expect that to be just as good.

This is not "pro Kremlin propaganda masquerading as scholarship", nor in fact does it lay all the blame at the door of the West as a result of analysis.

This is a detailed and sourced work examining the Ukraine crisis up to 2016. The Kremlin comes in for criticism. A section on the annexation of Crimea is far from following the Kremlin line, for example. An especially useful section covers how the EU provoked a crisis - not even discussing the Association Agreement with Russia, though it affected Russia both economically and in the security sphere. The author covers internal Ukrainian politics in more detail than I have come across elsewhere. The short-sighted and confrontational policies of the 'hawks' and 'democracy' exporters in Washington is also covered.

Not only is this a detailed work well supported by research it is also, in my view, a book with an inner moral strength. If only more people would try to think clearly about difficult matters we perhaps wouldn't be in the mess we are.

Thus book is essential reading on Ukraine.
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Paradesi K.Yarikipati
5.0 out of 5 stars A Different Version of Russia -Ukraine Conflict
Reviewed in India on September 21, 2023
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The reasons for Russia -Ukraine conflict analysed and explained from different perspectives opposite to the Western or European.The rise of ethnic nationalism in Ukraine and the role played by the West stocking the fires of ehinic nationalism through color revolutions in the name of democracy..Those who fed up with western propaganda analysis of Russia -Ukraine conflict may found different version.A must read ..
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Marie Vallognes
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read !
Reviewed in France on February 28, 2023
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Great book containing a lot of details and explaining the current situation in Ukraine much more objectively than main stream media.
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Jose Miguel Puertas
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in Spain on February 29, 2020
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Excellent analysis about the destruction of Ukraine by pretty dark forces backed and funded by the Euroatlantic imperial axis.
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Jonathan Witt
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Overview
Reviewed in Canada on November 13, 2016
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This book is essential reading for anybody who desires a deep understanding of Ukraine and Russia as they relate to current US foreign policy. The author approaches the issue with exceptional objectivity and clarity. Highly recommended for those who realize that the mainstream media has completely (and in my view deliberately) failed to provide us with an honest and accurate assessment of global affairs, and are looking for the facts.
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