The Gates Of Europe: A History Of Ukraine

Author: Serhii Plokhy

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  • : $30.00 NZD
  • : 9780141980614
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : August 2016
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : December 2016
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Description

Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the language and the people living within these shifting borders. In this authoritative book, Harvard Professor Serhii Plokhy traces the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings in the tenth century to the current [2015] Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. Fascinating and multilayered, The Gates of Europe is the essential guide to understanding not just Ukraine's past but also its future.

Author description

Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and a leading authority on Eastern Europe. His previous books include The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, Yalta: The Price of Peace and The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires. His recent books are Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy and Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis