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Below is a list of resources, including articles, books, events, and films to help provide context and background for the conflict in Ukraine. The list will be regularly updated.
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- "Ask the Experts: Russia and Ukraine", Miami University Havighurst Center
- "Clash in the Caucasus: Georgia, Russia, and the Fate of South Ossetia" by Stephen Jones, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
- “The Consolidation of Democracy in Ukraine,” Charles Wise and Trevor Brown, 1998, Democratization 5: 116-137
- "The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline" by Michael Corsi, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
- "'Fantasy is not history' Historian Victoria Smolkin assesses Putin’s claim that modern-day Ukraine is a ‘gift’ from the Bolsheviks", Victoria Smolkin, Meduza
- "A historian corrects misunderstandings about Ukrainian and Russian history" by Ronald Suny, The Conversation
- "History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus" by Stephen M. Norris, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
- "Kyiv's Ancient Normality (redux)" by Timothy Snyder (on Substack)
- "Military experts react to Ukraine invasion, assess potential for widespread aggression and risks to US", by Carla Martinez Machain, Liam Collins, and Susan Hannah Allen, The Conversation
- "A New Cold War Emerging as Russia Launches Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine" by Jaro Bilocerkowcyz, The Conversation
- "Putin’s antagonism toward Ukraine was never just about NATO – it’s about creating a new Russian empire" by Emily Channell-Justice and Jacob Lassin
- "Russia Invades Ukraine -- 5 Essential reads from experts" by Naomi Schalit, The Conversation
- "Seize the Oligarchs’ Wealth: A crackdown on the Russian elite could help the situation in Ukraine and offer solutions to broader social problems" by Faith Hillis, The Atlantic
- "Why Ukrainian Americans are committed to preserving Ukrainian culture – and national sovereignty" by Katja Kolcio, The Conversation
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- A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (2005), by Kate Brown
- Children of Rus': Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation (2013), by Faith Hillis
- Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post Cold War Order (2015), Rajan Menon and Eugene Rumer
- The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2021), by Serhii Plokhii
- The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (2014), by Serhii Plokhii
- Life Went on Anyway (2019), by Oleg Sentsov
- A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister (2021), by Olesya Khromeychuk
- Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation (2017), by Serhii Plokhii
- Lucky Breaks (2022), by Yevgenia Belorusets
- The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, Reilly Costigan-Humes (Translation), Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler (Translation)
- On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine (2019), by Sonia Bilocerkowyz
- Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film (2007), by Yana Hashamova
- Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? (2014), by Karen Dawisha
- Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985 (2010), by Sergei Zhuk
- Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (2007), by Serhy Yekelchyk
- Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (2020), by Serhy Yekelchyk
- Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West (2014), by Andrew Wilson
- Ukraine in Histories and Stories: Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals (2020), edited by Volodymyr Yermolenko
- Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War (2019), by Paul D’Anieri
- Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament: A History (2021), by Yuri Kostenko
- Ukraine’s Outpost: Dnipropetrovsk and the Russian-Ukrainian War (2022), by Taras Kuzio, Sergei I. Zhuk, and Paul D’Anieri
- Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia (2021), by Timothy Frye
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- Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective - collection of essays, podcasts, articles about Ukraine, history, and larger context
- Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective - collection of essays, podcasts, articles about NATO
- Research Guide: Ukraine - resource guide created by Ohio State University Libraries
- Teaching and Studying Ukraine: List of Resources, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
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- Real ways you can help Ukraine as a foreigner, gathered by GlobalShapers and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
- Resources for BIPOC, LGBTQ+ Ukrainians and Ukrainians with disabilities or chronic illness compiled by Kimberly St. Julian Varnon (contact: @ksvarnon on Twitter)
- Resources for Helping Displaced Scholars from Ukraine created and updated by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
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- Wednesday, May 11, 6:00-8:30PM, CSEEES Film Screening: Atlantis (2019)
- July 26-27, 9:00AM-12:PM EST, CSEEES Summer 2022 K-12 Teacher Training Workshop: Understanding the Culture and History of Ukraine (open to pre- and in-service K-12/community college educators only)
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- Donbass by Serhii Loznytsia
- No Obvious Signs by Alina Horlova
- Homeward by Nariman Aliev
- Bad Roads by Nataliia Vorozhbyt
- The Earth is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk
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- The New Voice of Ukraine (English)
- Svidomi Instagram account
- Twitter feed compiling reporting from 60 journalists in Ukraine
- Twitter feed of Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba (English and Ukrainian)
- President of Ukraine's website (English)
- Ukraine Unlocked (English)
- Ukrinform (English)
- Voice of America (English)
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- The Atlantic Council
- Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Mershon Center for International Security Studies
- Ukrainian Cultural Association of Ohio
- Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
- War on Ukraine: Informational Resources and Charitable Organizations, Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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- "Crisis in Ukraine", Council on Foreign Relations
- "Hobart and William Smith Experts Discuss Russian Invasion", Hobart and William Smith College
- "International Crisis in Ukraine: How and Why it Matters", Muhlenberg College
- "Invasion of Ukraine: Voices from Kyiv School of Economics", Center for Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh (recording on Twitter)
- "Russian Invasion of Ukraine", College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University
- “Ukraine in Crisis Policy Talk” with Dr. Rudy Hightower and Dr. Trevor Brown, 2014, John Glenn College of Public Affairs
- "'Ukraine's guerrilla warfare could topple Putin' - Mark Galeotti on Russia's invasion", The Telegraphy
- "Военная операция России в Украине", RTVI Новости (in Russian)
- "War in Ukraine: Voices from Kyiv", Center for Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh