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by Serhii Plokhy
Nonfiction
A celebrated historian explains that today’s war is a case of history repeating itself; part of a long history of turmoil over Ukraine’s sovereignty. This revised edition contains new material that brings adefinitive history up to the present day.
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by Timothy Snyder
Nonfiction
Presents the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. By the bestsellering author of “On Tyranny.”
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by Steven Lee Myers
Nonfiction
The tale of Putin’s rise to power, from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to one of the most ambitious, calculating and complicated leaders in modern history. By a former New York Times Moscow bureau chief.
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by Adam Higginbotham
Nonfiction
Draws on 20 years of research, recently declassified files, and interviews with survivors in an account of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster that also reveals the additional new dangers created by political propaganda and secrets.
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by A. Anatoli
Fiction
An internationally acclaimed novel about the murder of 33,771 Jewish civilians from September 29 to 30, 1941 in a Kiev ravine, one of the largest single mass killings of the Holocaust.
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by Anne Applebaum
Nonfiction
In 1929 Stalin forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms, creating a disastrous famine that killed, among others, over 3 million Ukrainians. The author argues that the Soviets made deliberate use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem: the Ukrainians.
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by David Remnick
Nonfiction
The Pulitzer-winning description of USSR’s fall, the empire Putin seeks to reclaim. New Yorker editor in chief Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75 years leading up to the collapse, drawing on the voices of those who lived through it, including Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Sakharov.
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by Peter Pomerantsev
Nonfiction
When a British producer plunges into the booming Russian TV industry, he is brought to smoky rooms for meetings with propaganda gurus running the nerve-center of the Russian media machine, and visits Siberian mafia-towns and the salons of the international super-rich in London and the US.
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by Marie Yovanovitch
Nonfiction
The U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine, whose life and work have taught her about the value of democracy and the dangers of corruption, details her involvement in President Trump’s impeachment inquiry and her response to his smear campaign.
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by Tim Judah
Nonfiction
A distinguished journalist talks to everyone from politicians to poets, retrees, and historians, interweaving their stories to create a sweeping, tragic portrait of a country fighting a war of independence from Russia–25 years after the collapse of the USSR.
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by Serhiy Zhadan
Fiction
A searing novel about the incidental damage wrought by conflict in eastern Ukraine. When Russian soldiers invade a neighboring city, Pasha, a thirty-five-year-old teacher, sets out for the orphanage where his nephew Sasha lives, now in occupied territory.
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by Serhiy Zhadan
Nonfiction
These robust and accessible narrative poems paint portraits of life on poor, wartorn streets, where children tally the number of local deaths, mothers live with low expectations, and romance lives as a remote memory.
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by Kalani Pickhart
Fiction
The tender, intertwined story of four young Ukrainians over the course of the tumultuous winter following the massacre at Independence Square in Kyiv in November 2013 when military police fired into a crowd of peaceful pro-EU protesters, killing over 100 civilians.
