Russian invasion of Ukraine: E-books in the TCC Library
TCC e-books
The books below are just a sample of the many e-books that the TCC Library has related to the current events, history, and culture of Ukraine.
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Ukrainian politics
Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's war: A chronicle and analysis of the revolution of dignity by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2019In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime.
International law and the post-Soviet space II: Essays on Ukraine, intervention, and non-proliferation by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2019-04-30This volume deals with legal issues concerning Russia's annexation of Crimea and intervention in the Donbas, so-called 'frozen conflicts' and 'hybrid warfare,' the use of courts and tribunals to address armed aggression, and the implications of recent events for the security guarantees connected to nuclear non-proliferation. Continuing from the first volume, which contains Parts One and Two on Chechnya and the Baltic States, this book is comprised of Part Three--
Three revolutions: Mobilization and change in contemporary Ukraine II: An oral history of the revolution on Granite, Orange Revolution, and Revolution of Dignity by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2019-11-30The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 2013-2014.
Building Ukraine from within: A sociological, institutional, and economic analysis of a nation-state in the making by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2018Ukraine drew significant media attention after the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity and the subsequent undeclared war waged by Russia. However, the nature of these events and their impact on the social, economic, and political development of this country remain under-studied and, hence, often misunderstood.
The Crimean nexus : Putin's war and the clash of civilizations by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2017How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first occupation and annexation of one European nation's territory by another since World War II.
Ukrainian arts & culture
Words for war: New poems from Ukraine by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2017The poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and forgiveness.
The white chalk of days: The contemporary Ukrainian literature series anthology by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2017This anthology presents translations of literary works by Ukraine's leading writers that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today's Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations.
Avant-garde art in Ukraine, 1910-1930 : Contested memory by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2019From pre-war years in Paris to the end of the 1920s in Kyiv, Ukrainians or artists from Ukraine produced some of the world's greatest avant-garde art and made major contributions to painting, sculpture, theatre, and film-making. This book tells their story and explores the roots of their inspiration.
Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant experimentation by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2017The first book-length examination of this subject, Modernism in Kyiv is a breakthrough accomplishment that will become a standard volume in the field.
Ukrainian history
The burden of the past: History, memory, and identity in contemporary Ukraine by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2019Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture:
Soviet Americana: The cultural history of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2018The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US.
Claiming Crimea: A history of Catherine the Great's southern empire by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2017Russia's long-standing claims to Crimea date back to the eighteenth-century reign of Catherine II. Historian Kelly O'Neill has written the first archive-based, multi-dimensional study of the initial "quiet conquest" of a region that has once again moved to the forefront of international affairs.
Makhno and memory: Anarchist and Mennonite narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917–1921 by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2020Nestor Makhno has been called a revolutionary anarchist, a peasant rebel, the Ukrainian Robin Hood, a mass-murderer, a pogromist, and a devil. These epithets had their origins in the Russian Civil War (1917-1921), where the military forces of the peasant-anarchist Nestor Makhno and Mennonite colonists in southern Ukraine came into conflict.
The origins of the Slavic nations : Premodern identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2006This book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations and the essential similarities or differences between their cultures.
Vladimir Putin
Putin on the march: The Russian president's unchecked global advance by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2017
The Putin system: An opposing view by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2019Grigory Yavlinsky, a Russian economist and opposition leader, explains his country's politics from a unique perspective, voicing a Russian liberal critique of the post-Soviet system that is vital for the West to hear. He argues that Putin is as much a product of the system as its creator.
The new autocracy: Information, politics, and policy in Putin's Russia by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2018"The result of a two-year collaboration between top Russian experts and Western political scholars, Autocracy explores the complex roles of Russia's presidency, security services, parliament, media and other actors. The authors argue that Putin has created an "informational autocracy," which relies more on media manipulation than on the comprehensive repression of traditional dictatorships."
Politics under the influence: Vodka and public policy in Putin's Russia by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2018-09-15This book will be an invaluable resource for anyone working on policy and corruption in Putin's Russia.
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