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Book Launch "Befreiungskrieg - Nationsbildung und Gewalt in der Ukraine", Anna Veronika Wendland

The Russian war of aggression on Ukraine of 24 February 2022 caused many to perceive Ukraine as a protagonist in European history for the first time. In this book, Anna Veronika Wendland unfolds the entire panorama of Ukrainian history, from the beginnings in medieval Kyiv to the early modern attempts at state-building and the catastrophic experiences of the 20th and 21st centuries. Wars and violence shaped the repeatedly interrupted nation-building of Ukraine just as much as the peaceful phases of coming to terms with neighbours or even profiting from the supremacy of the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union. In this interplay, the Ukrainians developed their specific constitutional traditions and ideas of freedom - and thus evolved from a peasant nation under foreign masters into a modern, pluralistic industrialised nation.

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