Guides: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Monographs

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Ukrainian Russian Relations

The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know by Serhy Yekelchyk
ISBN: 9780190237288
Publication Date: 2015
Examines the 2014 crisis in Ukraine, the country's ethnic composition, and Ukrainian national identity.
Remaking Ukraine after World War II by Filip Slaveski
ISBN: 9781108840255
Publication Date: 2021
Explores Soviet Ukraine's transition from war to 'peace' in the long aftermath of World War II. Filip Slaveski investigates the challenges faced by local Soviet authorities in reconstructing central Ukraine, including feeding rapidly growing populations in post-war famine.
Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War by Taras Kuzio
ISBN: 9781003191438
Publication Date: 2022
Provides an in-depth analysis of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and Europe's de facto war between Russia and Ukraine.
Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War by Paul D'Anieri
Call Number: Van Pelt Library DK508.57.R9 D36 2020
ISBN: 9781108486095
Publication Date: 2020
D'Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and the West, that emerged with the collapse of the Soviet Union and eventually led to the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past by Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: 9781442689534
Publication Date: 2008
Examines the formation of modern Russian and Ukrainian historical identity and how these constructions have been used to justify imperial and modern national projects.
Ukraine and Russia: The Post-Soviet Transition by Roman Solchanyk
Call Number: Van Pelt Library DK508.57.R9 S65 2001
ISBN: 0742510174
Publication Date: 2000
Provides analysis of both the domestic and foreign policies and security issues confronting Russia's largest and most important neighbor during its first decade as an independent state.
Unmaking Imperial Russia by Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: 9781442682948
Publication Date: 2016
Examines Hrushevsky's construction of a new historical paradigm that brought about the nationalization of the Ukrainian past and established Ukrainian history as a separate field of study

Library of Congress Call Numbers

LOC Call Numbers are useful for browsing and locating books by subject within the Penn Libraries' stacks. For instance, if searching for a history of Ukraine, knowing that Ukraine History books are located in the DK508-508.5 range, one can go to that library location to more easily evaluate the varying titles.

DK1-949.5 History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics

DK36 - 293. History

DK265 - 265.95. Revolution, 1917-1921

DK266 - 292. Soviet Regime, 1918-1991

DK293. History - 1991-

DK508 - 508.5. Ukraine

DK510 - 651. Russia (Federation). Russia S.F.S.R.

JN1-9689 Political institutions and public administration (Europe)

JN6500-6598 Soviet Union. Russia. Former Soviet Republics

JN6630-6639 Russia (Federation)

JZ5-6530 International relations

History of Ukraine

The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy
Call Number: Van Pelt Library DK508.51 .P55 2015
ISBN: 9780465050918
Publication Date: 2015
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 Leonid Brezhnev, who called Ukraine their home; and the Maidan protestors of 2013 and 2014.
History of Ukraine-Rus' by Mykhailo Hrushevsky
Call Number: Van Pelt Library DK508.5 .H7813 1997
ISBN: 1895571227
Publication Date: 1997
The History of Ukraine-Rus' is one of the most comprehensive accounts of the ancient, medieval, and early modern history of the Ukrainian people. Contains 10 volumes.
Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament by Yuri Kostenko
ISBN: 9780674250888
Publication Date: 2021
Outlines the circumstances surrounding the 1994 decision for Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons and its repercussions.
Ukraine's Orange Revolution by Andrew Wilson
ISBN: 9780300143911
Publication Date: 2006
A close-up account of the 2004 political revolution in Ukraine, and some of its consequences.
Ukraine: A History by Orest Subtelny
Call Number: Van Pelt Library DK508.51 .S93 2009
ISBN: 9781442640160
Publication Date: 2009
Initially published in 1988, this 4th edition provides a chronological history of Ukraine from prehistory to the early 21st Century. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd print editions also available.
Ukraine in Histories and Stories by Volodymyr Yermolenko (Editor); Peter Pomerantsev (Foreword by)
Call Number: Van Pelt Library DK508.52 .U47 2020
ISBN: 9783838214566
Publication Date: 2020
Collection of texts by contemporary Ukrainian writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, and opinion leaders combines reflections on Ukraine's history--or histories--and analyses of the present as well as conceptual ideas and life stories.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Book titles are categorized by subject using the standardized vocabulary LOC Subject Headings. Use these search terms within the catalog to see all of the titles cataloged with these subjects. For example, "Ukraine Conflict--2014".

European Union--Ukraine

Geopolitics--Ukraine

Nationalism--Russia (Federation)

Russia--Civilization--Ukrainian influences

Russia--Foreign relations

Russia--History

Russia--History, Military

Russia (Federation)--Economic conditions--1991-

Russia (Federation)--Economic policy--1991-

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations

Russia (Federation)--History--Revolution, 1917-1921

Russia (Federation)--History--1991-

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-

Self-determination, National--Ukraine

Soviet Union--Economic policy

Soviet Union--Foreign relations

Soviet Union--History

Soviet Union--Politics and government

Ukraine Conflict, 2014

Ukraine--History--Euromaidan Protests, 2013-2014

Ukraine--History--1991-

Ukraine--History--862-1240

Ukraine--History--Orange Revolution, 2004