About Ukraine
Background information about Ukraine, Russia, and Russia’s centuries-old war on Ukraine.
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Spellings
| Wrong | Correct | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| The Ukraine | Ukraine | “It’s ‘Ukraine,’ not ‘the Ukraine’ – here’s why” |
| Kiev | Kyiv | |
| Zelensky | Zelenskyy | |
| Donbass | Donbas | |
| Odessa | Odesa |
Russia’s war on Ukraine
- Vladimir Putin
- Peace negotiations
- Genocide in Ukraine
- Russification
- Russian nazis
- Russian Nazis, part 2
- NATO expansion
- The Revolution of Dignity
- Propaganda through architecture and rebuilding
- Russia’s penal military units
Lectures & documentaries
Information sources
- Information sources
- Ukraine Fact Check
- Desk Russie in English (Desk Russie in French)
- See also: About vatniks
Books
- Martin Amis, Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
- Christopher Andrew, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World - Newly Revealed Secrets from the Mitrokhin Archive
- Christopher Andrew, The Sword And The Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The KGB
- Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
- Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
- Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
- Jessikka Aro, Putin’s Trolls: On the Frontlines of Russia’s Information War Against the World
- Catherine Belton, Putin’s People
- Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
- Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties
- Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
- Brian Crozier, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
- Keir Giles, Russia’s War on Everybody: And What it Means for You
- Luke Harding, Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West
- Luke Harding, Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival
- Garry Kasparov, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
- Stephen Kotkin, Stalin Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
- Stephen Kotkin, Stalin Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- Alexander Litvinenko, Blowing up Russia (The Book that Got Litvinenko Murdered)
- Edward Lucas, The Snowden Operation: Inside the West’s Greatest Intelligence Disaster
- Edward Lucas, Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West
- Edward Lucas, The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West
- Martin Malia, The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991
- Sean McMeekin, Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II
- Richard Overy, Why The Allies Won
- Richard Overy, Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945
- Richard Overy, The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia
- Ion Mihai Pacepa, Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism
- Ion Mihai Pacepa, Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus’ Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption
- Alan Philps, The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin’s Propaganda War
- Richard Pipes, Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime
- Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution
- Richard Pipes, Russia under the Old Regime
- Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing is True but Everything is Possible
- Andrew Roberts, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
- Peter Schweizer, Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism
- Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
- Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
- Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands
- Benjamin Weiser, A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country
- Mikhail Zygar, All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin