Full name: The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

Author: S. M. Plokhy Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465050918 9780465094868 0465050913 0465094864

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's existence as a sovereign nation. As award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order to understand its fraught present and likely future. Situated between Europe, Russia, and the Asian East, Ukraine was shaped by the empires that have used it as a strategic gateway between East and West--from the Romans and Ottomans to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, all have engaged in global fights for supremacy on Ukrainian soil. Each invading army left a lasting mark on the landscape and on the population, making modern Ukraine an amalgam of competing cultures. Similar books: Borderland by Anna Reid Ukraine by Orest Subtelny The Last Empire by S. M. Plokhy The Ukrainians by Andrew Wilson The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset Catastrophe by David Keys Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare by John Toohey Civilization by Roger Osborne Cotton by Stephen Yafa Red Famine by Anne Applebaum Red Fortress by Catherine Merridale The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer