Read to Resist: The War on Ukraine
We Suggest…
THE ROAD TO UNFREEDOM: RUSSIA, EUROPE, AMERICA by Timothy Snyder
THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE: THE UNLIKELY RISE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN by Masha Gessen
THE FUTURE IS HISTORY: HOW TOTALITARIANISM RECLAIMED RUSSIA by Masha Gessen
RED FAMINE: STALIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE by Anne Applebaum
BLOODLANDS: EUOPE BETWEEN HITLER AND STALIN by Timothy Snyder
NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE: THE SURREAL HEART OF THE NEW RUSSIA by Peter Pomerantsev
HOW TO LOSE THE INFORMATION WAR: RUSSIA, FAKE NEWS, AND THE FUTURE OF CONFLICT by Nina Jankowicz
PUTIN’S PEOPLE: HOW THE KGB TOOK BACK RUSSIA AND THEN TOOK ON THE WEST by Catherine Belton
BETWEEN TWO FIRES:TRUTH, AMBITION, AND COMPROMISE IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA by Joshua Yaffa
THE GATES OF EUROPE: A HISTORY OF UKRAINE by Serhii Plokhy
RED NOTICE: A TRUE STORY OF HIGH FINANCE, MURDER, AND ONE MAN’S FIGHT FOR JUSTICE by Bill Browder
FREEZING ORDER: A TRUE STORY OF MONEY, LAUNDERING, MURDER, AND SURVIVING VLADIMIR PUTIN’S WRATH by Bill Browder
TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY: THE SEDUCTIVE LURE OF AUTHORITARIANISM by Anne Applebaum
BORDERLAND: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF UKRAINE by Anne Reid
THE INVENTION OF RUSSIA: THE RISE OF PUTIN AND THE AGE OF FAKE NEWS by Arkady Ostorvsky
THE NEW TSAR: THE RISE AND REIGN OF VLADIMIR PUTIN by Steven Lee Myers
THE PLOT TO DESTROY DEMOCRACY: HOW PUTIN AND HIS SPIES ARE UNDERMINING AMERICA AND DISMANTLING THE WEST by Malcolm Nance
RUSSIAN ROULETTE: THE INSIDE STORY OF PUTIN’S WAR ON AMERICA AND THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP by Michael Isikoff
CONFLICT IN UKRAINE: THE UNWINDING OF THE POST-COLD WAR ORDER by Rajan Menon
HERE, RIGHT MATTERS: AN AMERICAN STORY by Alexander Vindman Lt. Col.. U.S. Army (RET.)
SURVIVING AUTOCRACY by Masha Gessen
I WILL DIE IN A FOREIGN LAND: A NOVEL by Kalani Pickhart
FROM THREE WORLDS: NEW WRITING FROM UKRAINE
Edited by Askold Melnyczuk, Ed Hogan, and Michael Naydan
NEW EPISODE: Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan podcast featuring
Askold Melnyczuk & Olha Poliukhovych, Ph.D.
The War in Ukraine
Joining Mitchell Kaplan from Ukraine is Dr. Olha Poliukhovych, writer, philosopher, and professor of humanities at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine’s oldest university. From Boston, Askold Melnyczuk, acclaimed novelist, short story writer, founding member of Writers for Democratic Action, and co-editor of From Three Worlds, an anthology of Ukrainian writers. “When I read or hear the news from abroad, I see Ukrainian crisis, conflict, Ukrainian-Russia conflict…It’s not a conflict; it’s war,” said Dr. Poliukhovych.
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