Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration and Translation Preface Maps Countdown to Confrontation Two Europes Ukraine Contested The February Revolution The Crimean Gambit When History Comes Calling The Novorossiya Rebellion Worlds in Collision Frontline Politics The Future of Ukraine List of Abbreviations Notes Select Biography Index

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The first account of the gravest international crisis of the 21st century

About the Author

Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His main research interests are Russian domestic and international politics, European international relations and comparative democratization. Recent books include The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession (2011), Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair (I.B. Tauris 2014) and Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia (2014).

Reviews

'Frontline Ukraine is a formidably powerful, well-argued and thoroughly sourced attempt to correct world opinion on the Ukrainian conflict. Even those who cannot accept Professor Sakwa's underlying case, that the Ukrainian disaster has been brought about more by Western post-Cold War triumphalism than by President Putin's supposed 'imperialism', will find invaluable data and perceptions in this brilliant and hard-hitting book.' - Neal Ascherson; 'The great merit of Richard Sakwa's book is its willingness to challenge the prevailing wisdoms about the Ukraine crisis and to explain how its origins lie in the West's failure to creat an equitable political and security order in Europe after the collapse of communism...Essential reading to understand the causes and complexities of the Ukraine crisis.' -- Angus Roxburgh, author of The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia (I.B. Tauris, 2012); 'Cool, balanced and well sourced...Sakwa gives the best analysis yet in book form.' -- Jonathan Steele, The Guardian