The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events
of 2013-2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in
Crimea and Eastern Donbas a 'civil war' in order to claim
non-involvement. This flies in the face of evidence, but the
authors argue that the social science literature on civil wars can
be used help understand why no political solution was found between
2015 and 2022. The book explains how Russia, after seizing Crimea,
was reacting to events it could not control and sent troops only to
areas of Ukraine where it knew it would face little resistance
(Eastern Donbas). Kremlin decisionmakers misunderstood the
attachment of the Russian-speaking population to the Ukrainian
state and also failed to anticipate that their intervention would
transform Ukraine into a more cohesively 'Ukrainian' polity.
Drawing on Ukrainian documentary sources, this concise book
explains these important developments to a non-specialist
readership.
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