1/14 My six books about #Ukraine. I am called upon to answer questions about Ukraine every day. My books, which represent a quarter century of research and thought, often do a better job than I can while speaking live or in short pieces.
2/14 I don't often mention my books on Ukraine, because I feel uneasy promoting things that cost money while people in Ukraine are suffering and dying in this horrible unjustifiable invasion. I will continue to make meaningful donations to Ukraine. If you can, I hope you will too
3/14 My book that is most immediately relevant to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is "The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America." It is a history of the 2010s that links Russia's first invasion of Ukraine (2014) to its interference in US elections (2016).
4/14 #RoadToUnfreedom deals with politics, ideology, and propaganda under Putin.
5/14 Of my books on Ukraine, the one that centers Ukraine in recent history is "Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin," a history of mass killing by both the Nazi and Soviet regimes.
6/14 Ukraine was the most dangerous place in the world between 1933 and 1945. The first chapter treats the Stalinist famine of 1933. #Bloodlands #Ukraine
7/14 "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning" provides an interpretation of the Holocaust in which Hitler's desire to control Ukrainian land is a central element.
8/14 #BlackEarth addresses the questions I get about how the Holocaust by bullets proceeded in the occupied Soviet Union and about nationalism and collaboration.
9/14 "The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999" is about the emergence of Ukrainian and other modern nations from the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
10/14 The first of my six books on Ukraine, published twenty years ago, #ReconstructionOfNations does not cover the emergence of the Ukrainian civic nation in this century.
11/14 Of my books on Ukraine, "The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke," is perhaps the gentlest read. Its subject is an Austrian prince who chooses Ukrainian identity, aims at one time for a Ukrainian throne, and dies under interrogation by the KGB.
12/14 Its point is nations are a matter of commitment, not fate. #RedPrince #Ukraine
13/14 My close colleagues tend to think that "Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine" is my best book. It deals with the Polish-Soviet contest over Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s.
14/14 Its protagonist was an artist who spent thirteen years in the underground. It contains my most thorough archival work. #SketchesSecretWar
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