This book analyses how a city that was once the pride of Soviet power became a bastion of Ukrainian patriotism in the face of Russian military aggression in 2014 and thereafter. rge military industrial complex, and it was the world's biggest producer of nuclear missiles. In the Soviet Union, Dnipropetrovsk was a closed city due to its la. This is the first book to analyse the Russian-Ukrainian war from a regional perspective considering the role played by the Dnipropetrovsk region as the country's forpost (outpost) in Russia's war against Ukraine. Ukraine's Outpost: Dnipropetrovsk and the Russian-Ukrainian War (Trade Paperback / Paperback)Įdited by Kuzio, Taras Zhuk, Sergei I. Contributors: Sorin Arhire, Ivan Basenko, Agne Cepinskyte, Oleg Ken, Tam s Magyarics, Halina Parafianowicz, Alexander Rupasov, Ign c Romsics and Artem Zorin. The volume is designed to be accessible and informative to both historians and wider audiences. The contributions of established, as well as emerging, historians from different parts of Europe enriches the English language scholarship on the history of the international relations of the region. , Poland, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia and Romania. This involves the analyses of diplomatic, military, economic and cultural perspectives of Germany, Russia, Britain, and the USA towards Hungary. This book provides an overview of the various forms and trajectories of Great Power policy towards Central Europe between 19. Great Power Policies Towards Central Europe 1914-1945 (Trade Paperback / Paperback) Bringing together writers from various backgrounds, this edited volume offers a critical enquiry into the use of remote warfare. Despite the increasing prevalence of this distinct form of military engagement, it remains an understudied subject and considerable gaps exist in the academic understanding of it. This is remote warfare, the dominant method of military engagement now employed by many states. al actors against non-state armed forces through the provision of intelligence, training, equipment and airpower. Instead, they have limited themselves to supporting the frontline fighting of local and region. Today, many Western and non-Western states have shied away from deploying large numbers of their own troops to battlefields. Modern warfare is becoming increasingly defined by distance. Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Trade Paperback / Paperback)Įdited by McKay, Alasdair Watson, Abigail Karlshoj-Pedersen, Megan Marples is a Distinguished University Professor of Russian and East European History at the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada.
In the case of Ukraine, it chronicles a transition from a total outsider to one of the best-known scholars in Ukrainian studies, commenting on aspects of the coalescence of scholarship and politics, and the increasing role of social media and the Diaspora in the analysis of crucial events such as the Euromaidan uprising and its aftermath in Kyiv. Visiting Belarus more than 25 times since the 1990s, he was banned for seven years before the visa rules were relaxed in 2017.
It includes extended focus on his visits to Chernobyl and the contaminated zone in the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as a summer working with indigenous groups in eastern Siberia. es, and the Stalinist legacy in both countries. It highlights the dramatic changes of the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods, his travel stories, experienc. This book describes the author's academic journey from an undergraduate in London to his current research on Ukraine and Belarus as a History professor in Alberta, Canada. Understanding Ukraine and Belarus: A Memoir (Trade Paperback / Paperback)