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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukrainedi Serhii Plokhy
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. It's taken me a long time to finish reading this book, not because it wasn't good, but because I kept picking up other books alongside, and didn't want to rush this. Although it doesn't extend beyond 2016, and the war Russia started last year is a significant escalation, the dividing lines are all there in the book, across the centuries. I found this comprehensive history of Ukraine helped me understand what is going on there in the war with Russia. Plokhy manages to cover millennia of history while focussing tightly on the events of the last 80 years, which offers insights into the competing narratives of Russia and Ukraine about the current conflict. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"From one of the foremost experts on Ukraine and the former USSR, a concise, authoritative history of Ukraine. Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's existence as a sovereign nation. As award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order to understand its fraught present and likely future. Situated between Europe, Russia, and the Asian East, Ukraine was shaped by the empires that have used it as a strategic gateway between East and West--from the Romans and Ottomans to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, all have engaged in global fights for supremacy on Ukrainian soil. Each invading army left a lasting mark on the landscape and on the population, making modern Ukraine an amalgam of competing cultures. Authoritative and vividly written, The Gates of Europe will be the definitive history of Ukraine for years to come"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Just a word of warning: if you are expecting historical figures and settings to come alive, this book is not the place. “Gates of Europe” is packed with facts, facts, facts, and more facts. So, at times it is quite dense and academic (still very readable, though). But since I hadn’t expected to be entertained when I started reading, I was fine with the textbook style. ( )