Intent to destroy

• Verfasst von: Finkel, Evgeny [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Intent to destroy
• Titelzusatz: Russia's two-hundred-year quest to dominate Ukraine
• Verf.angabe: Eugene Finkel
• Verlagsort: London
• Verlag: Basic Books
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: xvii, 316 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Karten
• Fussnoten: Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register
• ISBN: 978-1-3998-0971-9
• ISBN: 978-1-3998-0972-6
• Schlagwörter: (g)Russland / (s)Unterdrückung / (g)Ukraine / (z)Geschichte
• Schlagwörter: (s)Russisch-Ukrainischer Krieg
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Finkel, Evgeny, 1978 - : Intent to destroy. - First edition. - New York : Basic Books, 2024. - xiii, 317 Seiten
• RVK-Notation: MG 85096
• K10plus-PPN: 1882769643

Abstract

Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet this attack was in fact the latest episode in a centuries-long Russian campaign. In this volume, leading scholar of genocide and Eastern Europe Eugene Finkel uncovers the deep roots of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Ever since the rise of Russian nationalism in the nineteenth century, the domination of this key borderland has become a cornerstone of Russian and Soviet policy. Using genocidal tactics – killings, deportations, starvation and cultural destruction – against ethnic Ukrainians and minorities including Tatars, Jews and Poles, Russia’s long-standing policy has aimed to obliterate Ukrainian identity. This eradication has consistently been a part of the Kremlin playbook and leads inexorably to the violence we see today.

Abstract

Told with the astonishing power of Finkel’s connection to this living history, and the authority of two decades of research, this volume casts today’s war it its broadest historical context, illuminating as never before Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II.