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Russia-Ukraine Crisis

Below are books and a link to audiobooks that provide historical context for the unfolding Russia-Ukraine re-invasion and war. With increased interest on this subject, some books are currently backordered and waiting for publisher reprints. However you can find quite a few of them available now as audiobooks on Libro.fm. See them here.

Thank you to Henrikas Bliudzius for compiling much of this list and sharing it in his LitHub article.

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine By Serhii Plokhy Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9781541675643
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Published: Basic Books - May 25th, 2021

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine By Anne Applebaum Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780804170888
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Published: Anchor - September 4th, 2018

Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine By Anna Reid Cover Image
$22.79
ISBN: 9780465055890
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Basic Books - June 9th, 2015

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster By Adam Higginbotham Cover Image
$20.99
ISBN: 9781501134630
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Published: Simon & Schuster - February 4th, 2020

Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir By Marie Yovanovitch Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780358457541
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Published: Mariner Books - March 15th, 2022

Here, Right Matters: An American Story By Alexander Vindman Cover Image
$26.99
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ISBN: 9780063079427
Published: Harper - August 3rd, 2021

Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster By Kate Brown Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9780393357769
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 17th, 2020

Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) By Serhy Yekelchyk Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780197532119
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - October 1st, 2020

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia By Joshua Yaffa Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9781524760601
Published: Crown - May 4th, 2021

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice By Bill Browder Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781476755748
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 20th, 2015

From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West By Heidi Blake Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316417242
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Published: Mulholland Books - November 24th, 2020

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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America By Timothy Snyder Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780525574477
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Crown - April 9th, 2019

Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War: A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity By Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Serhii Plokhy (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Serhii Plokhy (Foreword by)
$48.00
ISBN: 9783838213279
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Published: Ibidem Press - September 30th, 2019

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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin By Masha Gessen Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781594486517
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Published: Riverhead Books - March 5th, 2013

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Surviving Autocracy By Masha Gessen Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593332245
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Published: Riverhead Books - June 1st, 2021

The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia By Masha Gessen Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781594634543
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Published: Riverhead Books - October 2nd, 2018

A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin By Mark Galeotti Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781335145703
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Published: Hanover Square Press - July 7th, 2020

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe By Serhii Plokhy Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781541617070
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Published: Basic Books - March 10th, 2020

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West By Catherine Belton Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781250787323
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Published: Picador - May 3rd, 2022

In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine By Tim Judah Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780451495471
Published: Tim Duggan Books - October 11th, 2016

The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation By Andrew Wilson Cover Image
$28.74
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ISBN: 9780300217254
Published: Yale University Press - November 24th, 2015

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality By Peter Pomerantsev Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781541762121
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Published: PublicAffairs - May 26th, 2020

Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? By Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble Cover Image
$29.95
ISBN: 9780197611708
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - September 1st, 2021

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped By Garry Kasparov Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781610397193
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Published: PublicAffairs - November 8th, 2016

The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad By Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan Cover Image
$30.00
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ISBN: 9781541730168
Published: PublicAffairs - October 8th, 2019

The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet By Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan Cover Image
$18.99
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ISBN: 9781610399579
Published: PublicAffairs - August 22nd, 2017

All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin By Mikhail Zygar Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781568588179
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Published: PublicAffairs - November 7th, 2017

The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia By Mark Galeotti Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9780300243208
Published: Yale University Press - May 28th, 2019

The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West By Edward Lucas Cover Image
$22.99
ISBN: 9781137280039
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(Please note: This book cannot be returned.)
Published: St. Martin's Griffin - July 29th, 2014

How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict By Nina Jankowicz Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9780755642083
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Published: I. B. Tauris & Company - September 23rd, 2021

The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front By Aliide Naylor Cover Image
$48.00
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ISBN: 9781788312523
Published: I. B. Tauris & Company - January 23rd, 2020

A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West By Luke Harding Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9781101973998
Published: Vintage - January 24th, 2017

The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past By Shaun Walker Cover Image
$20.99
ISBN: 9780190058845
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - October 1st, 2019

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin By Timothy Snyder Cover Image
$22.99
ISBN: 9781541600065
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Published: Basic Books - April 26th, 2022

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West By Catherine Belton Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781250787323
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Published: Picador - May 3rd, 2022

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House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia By Craig Unger Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9781524743512
Published: Dutton - September 3rd, 2019

American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery By Craig Unger Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593182543
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Published: Dutton - January 18th, 2022

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers By Andy Greenberg Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780525564638
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Published: Anchor - October 20th, 2020