With the war in Ukraine more than one month old, you may be looking for sources that discuss the conflict--its history, causes and consequences--in some depth. To that end, below is a selective list of online materials and recent books held in the UW Madison Libraries collection.

Articles, Blogs & Reading Lists

• Ukraine, Russia, and the West: A Background Reading List  (March 2022)
  From Jstor Daily: Links to research reports, articles by historians and more.
• International Law Blogs on the Russo-Ukrainian War (March 2022)
  From the Peace Palace Library. Selective list of international law blogs on the topic from the past month.
• The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Resources at the Library of Congress (March 2022)
  Blog summarizing LOC's holdings on the topic, along with full text links to some important documents and reports.
• Putin's Memory Laws Set the Stage for his War in Ukraine (March 2022)
  Professor Fran Hirsch of the UW Madison History Department digs into the history of the current conflict going back to World War II.
• Timeline: The Events Leading up to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine  (March 2022)
  Summary of Russia-Ukraine relations after collapse of the Soviet Union.
• The Real and Imagined History of Ukraine (February 2022)
  Historian discusses Ukraine's role and place within the former Soviet Union.
• Sanctions and the Ukraine: What Can We Learn from the Literature? (March 2022)
  Note: One of the author's is UW Law School's David Trubek.
• Putin's Revisionist History of Russia and Ukraine (February 2022)
  From the New Yorker. Historian argues that Putin's perspective on Ukraine has its main origin in the Imperial Era, rather than the Soviet period.

Books in the UW Madison Libraries Collection

• The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2015)
• Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry (1999)
• Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War (2019)
• Ukraine and Russia: The Post-Soviet Transition (2001)
• Ukraine over the Edge: Russia, the West and the "New Cold War" (2018)
• Ukraine-Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict (2021)
• Ukraine's Search for Justice in the Shadow of the Donbas Conflict: Strategic Reforms or Crisis Management? (2020)
• The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (2015)
• The Ukraine-Russia Conflict: Signals and Scenarios for the Broader Region (2015)

Submitted by Sunil Rao, on April 20, 2022

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