Why is this happening? The question that many of you may have asked yourself or others since Putin's attack on Ukraine. How did this conflict start? What are the roots? What are Putin's plans? How do Ukrainians feel?
At such times, movies and books are a good way to enrich the information as well as to understand the conflict more deeply. In this article we will talk about the latter, namely books. Below is a list of some essential books that will be useful to you if you are curious to read more about one of the most complex relationships in Europe.
You can start with "The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine" by Serhii Plokhy ", a perfect book to understand the background of the crisis between the two countries.
To understand how the stage was set for Putin's rise, you can read David Remnick's book, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire.
If you want to understand why Putin's claims to Ukraine's denationalization are so offensive to ordinary Ukrainians, you can read Timothy Snyder 's "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin."
For more details on President Vladimir Putin's career, see Catherine Belto 's book Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West .
“Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution” e Chrystia Freeland mund ta lexoni nëse keni interes të dini se si një grup i vogël oligarkësh zotëruan të gjitha burimet e vlefshme të vendit në një periudhë kaosi dhe mjerimi.
Askush nuk ka shkruar për armën vendimtare të Kremlinit – kontrolli i medias – më mirë se Peter Pomerantsev në librin “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible”.
Por as Perëndimi nuk është i pafajshëm. Për më shumë detaje, lexoni “Kleptopia” shkruar nga Tom Burgis.
Shumë njerëz janë tronditur nga konflikti Rusi-Ukrainë, por jo aq sa janë të tronditur ukrainasit dhe rusët për luftën midis kombeve të tyre. Tregimet e shkurtra të Nikolai Gogol janë gjithmonë një ide e mirë.
If you want to read something about Kiev, why people fall in love with this city, you can read "Death and the Penguin" written by Andrey Kurkov.
Masha Gessen's book, "The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia," follows the lives of four people who thought they were living in a democracy as Russia surrendered to autocracy.
