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• History of Eastern Europe

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  Gain historical context for the current conflict through this online video series. Hundreds of years of history in Eastern Europe is covered across 24 30-minute episodes, including one dedicated to the 2014 crisis in Ukraine.

• Chernobyl

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  This HBO miniseries tells the tragic story of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The history of this incident looms over the current conflict as forces battle near nuclear facilities in Ukraine.

• Secondhand Time

  the Last of the Soviets

  Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-

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  An oral history of the collapse of the Soviet Union from Ukrainian-born investigative journalist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2015) Svetlana Alexievich.

• Voices From Chernobyl

  the Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

  Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-

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  Nobel Prize-winning oral history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 from Ukrainian-born investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich.

• Red Famine

  Stalin's War on Ukraine

  Applebaum, Anne, 1964-

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  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum details how, when Ukraine rebelled against Stalin's 1929 policy of agricultural collectivization, Stalin sealed the borders and began systematic food seizures resulting in millions of deaths.

• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

  Gessen, Masha,

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  This National Book Award-winning title follows the stories of four individuals in Russia to reveal how the country has reverted back to its totalitarian roots.

• Midnight in Chernobyl

  the Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

  Higginbotham, Adam,

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  Draws on twenty years of research, recently declassified files, and interviews with survivors in an account of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster that also reveals how propaganda and secrets have created additional dangers.

• The Ladies' Lending Library

  Keefer, Janice Kulyk, 1952-

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  Set in the summer of 1963 in a beach town outside of Toronto, this historical fiction centres the lives of Ukrainian women and provides insight into the experiences of immigrants trying to build a new home after fleeing war. Canadian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Something Unbelievable

  a Novel

  Kuznetsova, Maria,

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  This fictional story of a grandmother living in Kiev, Ukraine recounting her family's Soviet wartime escape from the Nazis is told in alternating perspectives with her granddaughter listening to the story and shows readers how the past…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

  Lewycka, Marina, 1946-

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  Nominated for the Man Booker Prize, this wise and funny novel zooms in on a family of Ukrainian immigrants as the elderly and recently widowed father announces his plans to remarry. Ukrainian-born author.

• The New Tsar

  the Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

  Myers, Steven Lee

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  This political biography by former New York Times journalist Steven Myers places Putin's origin story into context with world politics.

• Good Citizens Need Not Fear

  Reva, Maria, 1989-

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  Inspired by her and her family's own experiences in Ukraine, Reva's novel-in-stories of intertwined narratives spans the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union.

• Putin's World

  Russia Against the West and With the Rest

  Stent, Angela,

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  An analysis of Putin's Russia and how Russians perceive their place in the modern world by Angela Stent, foreign policy expert specializing in US and European relations with Russia and Russian foreign policy.

• Ukraine

  a History

  Subtelny, Orest

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  First published in 1988, this fourth edition provides additional information on Ukraine's more recent history such as the Orange Revolution.

• Between Two Fires

  Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia

  Yaffa, Joshua,

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  From a leading journalist in Moscow and a correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule.