TY - BOOK AU - PLOKHY Serhii TI - The Russo-Ukrainian war: the return of history SN - 9781324051190 (hbk.) U1 - 947.7086 PLO PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - W. W. Norton KW - RUSSIA (FEDERATION) KW - RELATIONS KW - UKRAINE KW - HISTORY KW - 21ST CENTURY KW - RUSSIAN INVASION 2022 KW - RUSSIAN (FEDERATION) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already apparent and possible future consequences ER -