Russia’s War Against Ukraine by GwendolynSasse. Cambridge, England: Polity Books, 2023. xvi + 157 pp. $45.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐6059‐2
Journal: The Russian Review
Year: 2024

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine continues into 2024 with no letup. In the meantime, it has spawned numerous books and articles purporting, like this volume, to explain why this war has broken out now. It also aims to explain why and against whom or what Russia is fighting and what explains Ukraine’s ferocious resistance. Despite or perhaps due to its brevity and the author’s incisive but persuasive arguments, this work carries off its ambitions very successfully. Gwendolyn Sasse, correctly,