Frontline Ukraine: crisis in the borderlands

Maps; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Select Bibliography; Chapter 1 Countdown to Confrontation; Chapter 2 Two Europes; Chapter 3 Ukraine Contested; Chapter 4 The February Revolution; Chapter 5 The Crimean Gambit; Chapter 6 When History Comes Calling; Chapter 7 The Novorossiya Rebellion; Chapter 8 Worlds in Collision; Chapter 9 Frontline Politics; Chapter 10 The Future of Ukraine; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Preface.;The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through the events which have forced Ukraine, a country internally divided between East and West, to choose between closer union with Europe or its historic ties with Russia. In providing the first full accoun.