Ukraine’s Outpost: Dnipropetrovsk and the Russian- Ukrainian War - Softcover

Kuzio, Taras

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910814601 ISBN 13: 9781910814604

Publisher: E-International Relations, 2022

Synopsis

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. In the Soviet Union, Dnipropetrovsk was a closed city due to its large military industrial complex, and it was the world’s biggest producer of nuclear missiles. 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. Led by Jewish-Ukrainian Russian speakers, the city of Dnipro and the region of Dnipropetrovsk prevented the spread of the Kremlin’s so-called ‘New Russia’ project beyond the Donbas into the heart of Ukraine. This pathbreaking study challenges Russian disinformation and Western stereotypes of Ukraine which portray it as a regionally divided country with the military conflict as a ‘civil war’ between Russian and Ukrainian speakers.


Edited by:

Taras Kuzio, Sergei I. Zhuk and Paul D’Anieri

Contributors:

Olena Andriushchenko, Olena Ishchenko, Nicholas Kyle Kupensky, Ihor Kucheriv, Eugenia Kuznetsova, Kostyantyn Mezentsev, Oleksiy Musiyezdov, Oleh Repan.

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About the Authors

Taras Kuzio is a Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, and Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He is the author, co-author, and editor of 21 books, including Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (Routledge 2022), 6 think tank monographs, and 165 scholarly articles and book chapters on Ukrainian and Eurasian politics, nationalism, and European studies.

Sergei I. Zhuk is Professor of History at Ball State University, Indiana, USA. His research interests are international relations (especially US-Russia), knowledge production, cultural consumption, religion, popular culture, and identity in a history of imperial Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union. His latest book is KGB operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1991 (Routledge 2022).

Paul D'Anieri is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent book is Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Edition details

• Publisher: E-International Relations
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910814601
• ISBN 13: 9781910814604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 223
• Editor: Zhuk Sergei I., D’Anieri Paul