Taras Kuzio is an Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society think tank in London, UK and Professor in the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. He is the author, co-author and editorand co-editor of 21 books, including Ukraine's Outpost: Dnipropetrovsk and the Russian-Ukrainian War (2021, co-editor), Crisis in Russian Studies? Nationalism (Imperialism), Racism and War (2020), The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics: Ukraine and the Challenge to the European Order (2018, co-author), Putin's War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime (2017). He is the author of five think tank monographs, including The Crimea: Europe's Next Flashpoint? (2010) and is also a member of the editorial boards of Demokratizatsiya, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Central and European Migration Review, and The Ukrainian Quarterly. He has authored 38 book chapters and over 130 scholarly articles on Ukrainian and Eurasian politics, democratic transitions, colour revolutions, nationalism, and European studies.

This groundbreaking volume provides an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russia's annexation of Crimea and Europe's only war between Russia and Ukraine through analysis of Putin's obsession with Ukraine and why Western sanctions have not deterred Russian military aggression.

Preface.

Part I: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives

1. Civic, Ethnic, or Civic-Ethnic States: A Discussion of Theoretical Concepts.
2. Russia and Ukraine in Comparative Perspective.

Part II: Russian Nationalism about Ukraine

3. Emigres, Dissidents and Soviets.
4. Boris Yeltsyn: Liberalism, Tanks, and Unions.
5. Vladimir Putin: 'Gatherer of Russian Lands.'

Part III: Russian Nationalism versus Ukraine

6. Democrats and the 'Red-White-Brown' Coalition.
7. Messianism, 'Holy Rus,' and the Russian World.
8. Russia's 'Jerusalem': Crimea, and 'New Russia'.
9. Conclusions.