In “Borderland” Anna Reid does not avoid the horrors of the country’s past, with its genocide, deportations and famine. But she also finds room for hope
in which the territory of Ukraine was plundered and invaded by powers from all points of the compass. Mr Plokhy shows how Ukrainian language, culture and identity flourished in adversity—which helps explain why, though they have only recently achieved a state of their own, Ukrainians are fighting heroically to defend it.Basic Books; 368 pages; $18.99. Weidenfeld & Nicolson; £10.
and its aftermath. The author captures the feelings of people swept up in the tumult in Kyiv—the sense of solidarity, and of moral imperative—and the motives of those who headed east to fight the Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas. She describes the bizarre mash-up of atavistic ideology and modern technology at work in the Kremlin’s meddling, and the implications of Ukraine’s fate for the future of Europe.The famine that Stalin inflicted on Ukraine in 1932-3 killed around 4m people.
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