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A CONVERSATION ON RUSSIA'S WAR ON UKRAINE: RESOURCES

We asked our panelists to provide us with links pertinent to their talks, and additionally gathered material from our audience in the webinar chat. We have organized these materials by topic and provide links to them all here.

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS (AS OF MARCH 23, 2022)

INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON UKRAINE

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

UKRAINIAN HISTORY

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 
  • 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. 
  • 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. ​​

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