The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
Journal: The Polish Review
Year: 2025

Like so many others at the time, Serhii Plokhy was stunned when he woke up on February 24, 2022, to news that Russia had begun its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. When recounting his emotions after learning about what was happening to his home country, Plokhy noted, “I slowly recovered from the shock of the first days of the aggression and began relearning to think analytically” (p. xx). Thankfully, it did not take long for Plokhy, one of the most prominent historians of Ukraine in the world, to