A CONVERSATION ON RUSSIA'S WAR ON UKRAINE: RESOURCES

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS (AS OF MARCH 23, 2022)

• Was it inevitable? A short history of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Keith Gessen, The Guardian 

• Opinion: Putin can’t win the war in Ukraine. But he can’t afford to lose it, Max Boot, The Washington Post 

• Transcript: Zelensky’s Speech to Congress, March 16, 2022, The New York Times 

• Think Twice About a Ukrainian Insurgency, Mark Cancian, Forbes 

• A Recent History of U.S. Sanctions on Russia, Marcus Lu, Visual Capitalist

INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON UKRAINE

• NATO’s Relations with Ukraine, NATO website

• Putin Acknowledges Impact of Sanctions on Russian Economy, Alexander Osipovich, The Wall Street Journal

• Here’s The Deal That Could End The Russia-Ukraine War Now, Mark Cancian, Forbes

• Is the United States Going to War With Russia? Mark Cancian, Forbes 

• How the Ukraine crisis affects China's view on Taiwan, Intelligence Matters, CBS News 

• Mark Cancian ‘73 headed the project that looked at what it would take to defend new NATO members, including Ukraine

UKRAINIAN HISTORY

• From Stalin to Putin, Ukraine is still trying to break free from Moscow, NPR

• The 20th-Century History Behind Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine 

• Coal Mines, Land Mines, and Nuclear Bombs: The Environmental Cost of the War in Eastern Ukraine, Robert Hamilton, Foreign Policy Research Institute 

• The Munich Agreement of 1938, History Lessons, The Council on Foreign Relations

• Notes for a discussion about Ukraine (from right before the war began), Roger Myerson '73, University of Chicago

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

UKRAINIAN HISTORY

• Alexievich, Svetlana (2006). Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. Picador.

• Applebaum, Anne (2017). Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. Anchor Books.

• Franklin, Simon and Jonathan Shephard (1996). The Emergence of Rus 750-1200. Longman.

• Higgenbotham, Adam (2020). Midnight in Chernobyl. Turtleback.

• Kuznetsov, Anatoly (1970). Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

• Plokhy, Serhii (2021). The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. Basic Books.

• Snyder, Timothy (2010). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books.

• Wilson, Andrew (2015). The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. Yale University Press.

• Helbig, Adriana N. (2014). Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race and African Migration. Indiana University Press.

• Judah, Tim (2016). In Wartime: Voices from Ukraine. Tim Duggan Books.

LITERATURE BY UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN AUTHORS ABOUT UKRAINE

• Belorusets, Yevgenia (2022). Lucky Breaks. Translated by Eugene Ostashevsky. New Directions.

• Bulgakov, Mikhail (2009). The White Guard. Translated by Marian Schwartz. Yale University Press.

• Chekh, Artem (2020). Absolute Zero. Glagoslav Publications B.V.

• Gogol, Nikolai (1999). The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Random House.

• Zhadan, Serhiy (2021). The Orphanage: A Novel. Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. Yale University Press.

• Zhadan, Serhiy (2016). Voroshilovgrad. Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. Deep Vellum Publishing.

RUSSIA AND PUTIN

• Gessen, Masha (2017). The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. Riverhead Books.

• Gessen, Masha (2012). The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. RiverheadBooks.

• Hill, Fiona and Clifford Gaddy (2013). Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin. Brookings Institution.

• Myers, Steven Lee (2016). The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin. Vintage.

• Yaffa, Joshua (2020). Between Two Fires: Truth Ambition and Compromise in Putin’s Russia. Tim Duggan Books.

HOW TO HELP 

• White Pony Express, a ClassACT HR73 Bridge, is delivering the supplies to a partner organization in San Jose that will immediately ship to Ukrainian refugees 

• Ukrainian Freedom Fund- started by former Marine Colonel Andrew Bain 

• Ukrainian Women’s Veteran Movement 

• Voices of Children, an NGO that aids traumatized children in Ukraine

• Serhiy Zhadan Charitable Foundation, an organization  that assists healthcare and education in Eastern Ukraine 

• Art Davidson and Anne Garrels (NPR correspondent and author of Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia) are providing direct support to Ukrainian civilians, wiring the funds to their contacts. From Art: TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. The situation in Ukraine is evolving by the hour. What we can do today, we may not be able to do a few days from now. If you want to contribute, you can:
• Deposit a check made out to: Assist Ukraine to Wells Fargo account 5522690469, or
• Mail or hand me a check made out to Assist Ukraine and I will deposit it.

Art Davidson,

5344 County Rd. 100

Carbondale, Colorado 81623

• You can state a preference for your donation to go to medical supplies; or for defense items such as flak jackets, helmets, and night vision goggles; or for whatever the Ukrainians feel is most urgent. Please call or email me with any questions you may have (artdavidson43@gmail.com, 907-952-3355).

• World Central Kitchen is feeding people at eight border crossings in Poland. The non-profit is on the ground in Romania, Moldova and Hungary, and is arriving soon in Slovakia. 

• UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has stepped up its operations and capacity in Ukraine and neighboring countries. 

• The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is trying to raise $100 million for relief efforts in Ukraine. 

• Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is active in every country and has emergency teams in and around Ukraine working to save lives. 

• People in Need (PIN) is a Czech Republic-based nonprofit that is on the ground in Ukraine. In addition to providing psychological assistance via a phone line, PIN is providing urgent humanitarian needs in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Sviatohirsk. ​​