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Blowing up Ukraine is a first history of democracy in Ukraine since 1991 and the lethal methods Russia has used over a quarter of a century to regain Ukraine as a vazal state - culminating in a full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting war crimes. Over twenty years, the Kremlin skilfully manipulated Ukraine's self-serving politicians and oligarchs, only to be thwarted time and again by peaceful transitions of power and demonstrations by ordinary Ukrainians - the Maidan - against government corruption and being pushed back into Russia's empire. With Ukraine as the first step in the Kremlin's master plan, Novorossiya, the Russian state has become a threat to global stability and Ukraine may be the first battleground of a world war if other nations are not careful to take a stance. Full of new and little known first-hand sources, Blowing up Ukraine presents a chilling and alarming narrative, and a path to defusing the conflict.

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"""Terrifying."" Steven Edgington, Daily Telegraph ""Crucial... powerful."" Kirkus Reviews ""Simply excellent."" Karl-Peter Schwartz, Die Presse ""This is our 1937 moment."" General Sir Patrick Sanders, UK Army Chief of General Staff, 28 June 2022 ""Seizing Ukraine remains the main goal of Putin. Unfortunately, these words, much like the rest of the book, will prove prophetical."" General Oleg Kalugin, Former KGB Head of Counter-Espionage ""Historians are blessed with numerous virtues, but bravery is rarely among them. Still, living in a modern world requires fundamental reconsideration of all of the conventional notions regarding Russia and Ukraine, United States and Europe. This book by two brave and scrupulous historians will undoubtedly help the readers to comprehend the present, as well as to live in the future."" Alexander Etkind, Professor of History, European University Institute, Florence"

""Terrifying."" Steven Edgington, Daily Telegraph ""Crucial... powerful."" Kirkus Reviews ""Simply excellent."" Karl-Peter Schwartz, Die Presse ""This is our 1937 moment."" General Sir Patrick Sanders, UK Army Chief of General Staff, 28 June 2022 ""Seizing Ukraine remains the main goal of Putin. Unfortunately, these words, much like the rest of the book, will prove prophetical."" General Oleg Kalugin, Former KGB Head of Counter-Espionage ""Historians are blessed with numerous virtues, but bravery is rarely among them. Still, living in a modern world requires fundamental reconsideration of all of the conventional notions regarding Russia and Ukraine, United States and Europe. This book by two brave and scrupulous historians will undoubtedly help the readers to comprehend the present, as well as to live in the future."" Alexander Etkind, Professor of History, European University Institute, Florence

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Yuri Felshtinsky is an expert on the Russian secret service with close ties to leading defectors. He co-authored bestsellers Blowing up Russia with KGB Lt-Col Alexander Litvinenko-who was assassinated on Vladimir Putin's orders according to the findings of a 2015 UK Inquiry-and The Age of Assassins: How Putin Poisons Elections. He was a Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and, in Ukraine, he led the project to decode the infamous 'Kuchma tapes' connected to the assassination of a leading journalist in Ukraine. He appears regularly as news commentator on MSNBC, NPR, BBC and Sky TV. Michael Stanchev is Professor of History and Head of the History Department at Kharkiv Karazin University, Ukraine, and was an advisor to the Ukraine Foreign Office. He is an Academician of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and has lectured in the United States, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. He lives in Kharkiv with his family.

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